The 305’s musical tastes are as diverse as the masses who live here. We’re a bunch of EDM beat freaks, salsa fanatics, Rasta lovers, hip-hop heads, hardcore punks, and indie obsessives. But we can all ...
Today, we recognize the 68th birthday of one of Hip Hop’s foundational figures, Afrika Bambaataa—a man whose influence helped shape the sound, style, and soul of the genre as we know it. Born Kevin ...
Afrika Bambaataaspeaks at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in New York in 2006. Hundreds, if not thousands of hip-hop artists have sampled James Brown. Legendary DJ Afrika ...
Today a press release from one week ago was forwarded to me. And while it misspells Afrika Bambaataa’s last name, dude’s last name is Bambaataa. Our biggest question is: When they say Sharivari is ...
Any DJ with any sense knows she or he owes a debt to Afrika Bambaataa. And if she or he happens to be spinning hip-hop, make that double. Yeah, Grandmaster Flash, Kool Herc, and DJ Hollywood were all ...
In an interview with Washington City Paper last week, hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa chastised D.C. FM radio stations for not playing enough local go-go and hip-hop. D.C. rappers have long ...
Endless rows of brand-new white cardboard boxes stacked chest-high greet you as you walk into Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, a posh art gallery on Greenwich. An amber-haired archivist in his early 30s ...
Advocacy organization Hip-Hop Stands with Survivors has filed an FCC complaint against New York radio station Hot 97 and Funkmaster Flex over comments the DJ made about Afrika Bambaataa, who has been ...
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