Culture Rapper & DJ Afrika Bambaataa Dead at 67 - RIP Hip-Hop Pioneer and Pederast

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Afrika Bambaataa -- a rapper and DJ who helped pioneer hip hop -- has died ... TMZ has learned.

Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ ... he died from complications of cancer at about 3 AM today in Pennsylvania.

Bambaataa was born in The Bronx .... and he joined the local gang the Black Spades, quickly rising up the ranks in the gang to the position of "warlord."

Beginning in the 1970s, Bambaataa began hosting parties where hip hop flourished ... which quickly grew to become huge block parties in the South Bronx.

Bambaataa released his first single in 1980 titled "Zulu Nation Throwdown" -- a reference to the Universal Zulu Nation, an art collective for socially conscious rappers, graffiti artists, B-boys, and more people involved in hip hop culture -- and his 1982 track "Planet Rock" rose up the ranks to reach Number 4 on the U.S. R&B chart.

In 1985, Bambaataa helped make the anti-apartheid album "Sun City" with several huge artists ... including Joey Ramone, Run-D.M.C., U2, and many more.

Near the end of his life, Afrika Bambaataa ran into a host of legal issues ... after multiple men accused him of sexually abusing them in the 1980s and 1990s. He was forced to pay out a settlement in 2025 to a man accusing him of sex trafficking him in the 1990s after a judge issued a default judgement when he didn't show up to court.

Bambaataa was 67.
 
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RIP Jiggaboo Jackson
 
Planet Rock is a fucking awesome song. Bambaataa is about the only hiphop nigga who has died of natural causes. Usually they end up shot dead or die by 40 of drug-related shit. By the time DMX quit dope his immune system was demolished and the covid jab killed him. Bambaataa lived to be 67? We salute you!
 
Blewberry Nausea said:
Huh, funny how you can go your whole life listening to music even stuff supposedly related to them and never hear of a ‘prolific’ artist until they die.
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One of the most overrated artists of all time, I can't think of any rap that was influenced by him. They actually more like a mix of Parliament Funkadelic and the Village People, except long after those groups were past their prime. Also, he raped boys.
 
I only learned of this dude a few hours ago from Wikipedia under the Recent Deaths entry. I was like he was younger, why he dead, read. Has a large entry on child rape going back to before I was fucking born. Really cool. WTF?
 
Unarmed Gunman said:
One of the most overrated artists of all time, I can't think of any rap that was influenced by him. They actually more like a mix of Parliament Funkadelic and the Village People, except long after those groups were past their prime. Also, he raped boys.
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Pretty much everything that came out of the boroughs was influenced by Planet Rock. Puerto Ricans made a whole genre out of samples from that one song alone. Prolific boy rapist though, I can't separate the artist from their art.
 
President Joe Biden said:
Pretty much everything that came out of the boroughs was influenced by Planet Rock. Puerto Ricans made a whole genre out of samples from that one song alone. Prolific boy rapist though, I can't separate the artist from their art.
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Planet Rock heavily samples Trans Europa Express by Kraftwerk. So Germany created hip-hop, basically.
 
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