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Afrika Bambaataa, pioneering hip-hop DJ and producer behind “Planet Rock” and founder of the Universal Zulu Nation, has died ...

Afrika Bambaataa, the hip-hop pioneer and 'Planet Rock' rapper, has died at 68. He shaped hip-hop culture.

Afrika Bambaataa, the pioneering rapper and record producer behind hit tracks like “Planet Rock” who founded the Zulu Nation ...

At a turbulent time in the 1990s when hip-hop was flexing its cultural muscle hard with the lurid street kabuki of gangster rap, Digable Planets managed to break out and rise above by being an ...

On this day in 1986, the founder and guiding force of the Almighty Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa, along with the Soulsonic Force, released Planet Rock: The Album on the influential imprint Tommy Boy ...

His song "Planet Rock," released in 1982 with Soulsonic Force, was a seminal record in defining electro-funk, though his ...