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Afrika Bambaataa

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Lance Taylor, known professionally as Afrika Bambaataa, was born on 17 April 1957 in The Bronx, Newâ¯York City, and emerged as a pioneering DJ, rapper, and record producer whose work helped shape early hipâhop culture. Growing up among the Black Spades gang, he later founded the Universal Zulu Nation and began hosting block parties that attracted youth from the South Bronx. His breakthrough came in 1982 with the electroâfunk single "Planet Rock", produced with Arthur Baker and the Soulsonicâ¯Force, which blended Kraftwerk samples with the Rolandâ¯TRâ808 and became a club hit that defined the electroâfunk genre. Over the next decades he released albums such as The Light (1988), Lost Generation (1996), and Dark Matter Moving at the Speed of Light (2004), and collaborated with artists including Jamesâ¯Brown on "Unity", Leftfield on "Afrika Shox", and Jamelia on "Doâ¯Meâ¯Right". He toured internationally, including a 1982 European tour, and participated in humanitarian concerts for the ANC in 1990. Despite the commercial success of tracks like "Renegades ofâ¯Funk" and his influence on artists worldwide, his career was later marred by multiple sexualâabuse allegations, leading to his resignation from the Universal Zulu Nation in 2016 and a civil judgment in 2025. Afrika Bambaataa died of prostate cancer in Pennsylvania on 9 April 2026 at age 68.

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