On this day in 1986, the founder and leader of the Almighty Zulu Nation Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force released Planet Rock: The Album on Tommy Boy Records. The LP was a collection of seven ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two members of the group exploit the termination provision under copyright law. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large There’s no firmer proof of the advancing age of hip-hop than a lawsuit ...

It is not an understatement to say that without Afrika Bambaataa there would be no hip-hop. The New York City DJ literally coined the phrase that led to the genre of music even being called hip-hop.

Afrika Bambaataa is legend in the world of hip-hop: an Afro-Futurist in the tradition of musician Sun Ra; a radical democrat and organizer; a sound-system blaster; a South Bronx DJ; a former leader of ...

SOOOOOO….yesterday was crazy! I know some of you don’t care about the god Afrika Bambaataa, but there are some of us that do. That includes ya boy ‘seed, who ...