Rap could have faded into the ether, like disco. Just because Blondie scored a major hit with “Rapture” in 1980, and ...

Rage Against the Machine drew inspiration from early metal instrumentation, as well as rap acts such as Public Enemy and Afrika Bambaataa. The group's music is distinguished primarily by de la ...

Both genres recently celebrated big birthdays. From their origins in the clubs and jams of the 1970s and 1980s, house and hip ...

Dunmore has been a DJ since the ’70s, inspired by the rhythms of rapper and producer Afrika Bambaataa and DJ Grandmaster Flash. “I knew I had to get a set of turntables,” he said.

The iconic underground club closed its second location on Ponce de Leon Avenue as it opens in Underground Atlanta.

In 1983, New York’s Tommy Boy Records hosted a promotional contest, challenging budding DJs to remix G.L.O.B.E. and Whiz Kid’s ‘Play That Beat, Mr DJ’ and boasting Afrika Bambaataa, Shep Pettibone, ...

Building on the foundations laid down by DJ Kool Herc, artists like Afrika Bambaataa emphasized hip-hop’s cultural and communal aspects. Meanwhile, Grandmaster Flash elevated the genre’s ...

It set the tone for Afrika Bambaataa’s seminal electro smash “Planet Rock” and has been sampled by countless acts, including Todd Terry and Stereo MCs. The last album to feature Peron ...

Bottom line: “World Destruction,” one of the earliest rock/rap records, was a collaboration between rapper Afrika Bambaataa and ex-Sex Pistol/Public Image Ltd. frontman John Lydon (aka, Johnny Rotten) ...