Afrika Bambaataa is facing a new set of sexual assault accusations from French rapper and jiu-jitsu champion Solo. The rapper, a member of the iconic hip-hop group Assassin, shared his shocking ...

Funkmaster Flex and Hot 97 were served with an FCC complaint filed by an advocacy group over comments the DJ made defending Afrika Bambaataa during his show. Bambaataa has been under fire after ...

Hip Hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa has been sued for claims related to child sex trafficking. In August, a John Doe plaintiff filed suit for claims related to a string of alleged abuse which occurred ...

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For many hip hop connoisseurs, DJs Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa are turntablism’s forefathers. Through practice they developed extremely high levels of hand eye co ...

Thereafter, a slew of New York artists – among them Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Afrika Bambaataa and Marly Marl – established hip-hop as a serious force. Rather than simply a genre ...