Afrika Bambaataa is facing a new set of sexual assault accusations from French rapper and jiu-jitsu champion Solo. The rapper, a member of the iconic hip-hop group Assassin, shared his shocking ...

Afrika Bambaataa has been accused of sexual abuse once again. Solo, a member of the French rap collective Assassin, claims an incident occurred with Bambaataa when he was a teenager. According to ...

Funkmaster Flex and Hot 97 were served with an FCC complaint filed by an advocacy group over comments the DJ made defending Afrika Bambaataa during his show. Bambaataa has been under fire after ...

For many hip hop connoisseurs, DJs Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa are turntablism’s forefathers. Through practice they developed extremely high levels of hand eye co ...

Thereafter, a slew of New York artists – among them Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Afrika Bambaataa and Marly Marl – established hip-hop as a serious force. Rather than simply a genre ...

KRS-One Says Quit Hip-Hop If You Have Issues With Afrika Bambaataa KRS-One Says Quit Hip-Hop If You Have Issues With Afrika Bambaataa KRS-One continues to defend Afrika Bambaataa. Unfortunately ...

From New Orleans rap to noughties New York rock, via krautrock, jazz, riot grrrl and the story of political pop, we asked Quietus contributors to pick out forty of the finest music books ever written ...