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trevrichards 3 days ago +165

Afrika Bambaataa, serial child molester, goes to Hell at 67*

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Forsaken-Swim-3055 3 days ago +77

I hope his victims are okay today.

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Forsaken_3sgtej25_2 3 days ago +10

With news like they are

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Apprehensive-Ant2141 2 days ago +2

Exactly what I came to say.

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RandomTez 3 days ago +229

This guy raped little kids. F*** him.

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Ok-Coconut-5965 3 days ago +48

I can’t, I’m too old. And he’s too dead.

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RobertLouisDrakeIII 3 days ago +12

that’s my kink brother

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Dismal_News183 3 days ago +9

Find the republican

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New_Independent5819 3 days ago +1

I believe in you

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BrickGlum9579 3 days ago +168

Just read his wiki page. I did not know about all those allegations.

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imjustsurfin 3 days ago +55

Neither did I. :-(

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SouldiesButGoodies84 3 days ago +23

If you want some random entertainment on a late night check out some of Dawgface's / RealLyfe Production [vids](https://youtu.be/9OckwspZ3Ss?si=SFJrV7GS611kYhSF). He talks about Bambaataa's bs, in addition to other pioneering, long toothed folks in the industry. He's not always on point but he was about AB.

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imjustsurfin 3 days ago +16

Will do. Thanks for the heads up. I honestly didn't know about these allegations\\activities until this thread.

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SouldiesButGoodies84 3 days ago +12

I grew up w/ 80s rap and just found out like last year about him - *and* how bad Aaron Hall, Chris williams, and Uncle Luke were BITD, as well. Much worse than I'd ever imagined, and all protected, including Bambaataa. smh. Messed up.

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imjustsurfin 3 days ago +21

I'm 64, so it was part of my "musical DNA" - and TODAY I find this out. Damn it, man. Damn it.

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SouldiesButGoodies84 3 days ago +12

And I came up dancing to R Kelly at parties and family functions. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Talented MFs or not, they still MFs in the end and they can take that ish to the grave. Long Live ~~KRS-One~~ and DeLA!

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imjustsurfin 3 days ago +9

I can't argue with that. I partied to, and dropped those artists tunes in my sound system days, too. Mrs ijs and I are sitting here in shock. We don't shock easy, but we're stunned.

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SouldiesButGoodies84 3 days ago +7

I can understand why. Don't elevate none of these guys (from rock to rap to hip hop and everything entertaining in between) is my new theme going into the rest of '26. 50-50 c*** shoot at this point whether they're ish or not ish.

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imjustsurfin 3 days ago +4

The Stranglers were\\are right: "*No More Hero's (anymore)*"

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TheRealDynamitri 3 days ago +8

F*** KRS, he’d been defending Bam until his last day. Unc lost the plot a long time ago.

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SouldiesButGoodies84 3 days ago +7

Get out! Has he? Once again I'm outta the loop. 🙁 edit: just read [this ](https://www.bet.com/article/baat68/krs-one-is-still-defending-afrika-bambaataa)and I'm wiped. 🤦🏽‍♀️

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Yablo-Yamirez 3 days ago +4

Nastyyyy work

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TheRealDynamitri 3 days ago +6

KRS has been on some pseudo-intellectual shit for years. For whatever reason he insists on framing himself as some enlightened elder statesman of hip-hop claiming the whole thing is a religion and giving himself the power to decide who is and who isn't hip-hop. Like, dude, it's just f****** music. Great culture around it, too, but it's really not that complicated and contrived as you're trying to make it out to be. He's lost his marbles a while back IMO, no idea why he's tripping. I found his pretentious claptrap quite amusing for a while, but that whole thing with defending BumBatter was the "Actually, f*** this guy" moment for me.

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nightbiscuit 3 days ago +3

I am now even more sad and even more tired

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slingerofpoisoncups 3 days ago +3

KRS has been pretty vocal over the years about how we should ignore the multiple well founded allegations of CSA against Bambaata because of how important he was culturally vs z. “ arguing that Bambaataa's personal life and alleged actions should not detract from his role in creating hip-hop culture.” So kind of F#ck KRS too…

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SouldiesButGoodies84 3 days ago +2

Agree. Just messed up b/c I just like late last year found out K had a [mural](https://www.vibe.com/news/entertainment/krs-one-mural-new-york-city-1234731880/) up next door (I'm from the tri-state, NE U.S.) and was so proud and happy for him. smh. Now I'm honestly wondering if he has some filth in his past too. 🙄 (Guess I'll have to wait on Dawgface to speak on it. haha) 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

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Howie_Due 3 days ago +10

It’s wild that most people didn’t. Self proclaimed “hip hop heads” would always give me the shocked face when I’d bring it up but then they’d go down the rabbit hole. Hip hop, for all its wins is still extremely homophobic & willing to cover up for the guy who coined the phrase.

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Accurate-Parfait-539 3 days ago +1

I hope his victims can sleep easy tonight.

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nine57th 3 days ago +36

Yuck. This guy was a known child molester and predator. Just a disgusting human being. Good riddance. There is nothing worse than a child molester.

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CorporateDeathBurger 3 days ago +22

Great! F*** him! KRS will be the only dude at his funeral.

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Howie_Due 3 days ago +13

Honestly f*** that dude too for helping cover this shit up for so long. Ol grandstanding ass

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MRuppercutz 3 days ago

And for saying he loves to beat down white boys.

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Built4dominance 3 days ago +1

Wasn't just him. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPNGr8FPA1E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPNGr8FPA1E)

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Complete-Morning-429 3 days ago +17

Dude was a prolific child molester

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bayoubunny88 3 days ago +6

Whaaaaat?

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aresef 3 days ago +1

Oh yeah, he lost a default judgment just last year.

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Forsaken_3sgtej25_2 3 days ago +4

Yes he was

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WAYTOOMELO 3 days ago +74

I grew up in the Bronx and knew Bambata my self as a kid I never thought about it but a ton of kids have been to this guys apartment in the Bronx and the running joke was always don’t drink the black kool aid if you went to his house. I’ve been in his apartment more then once and I’ll be honest he was always nice to me and never made any attempts or said anything weird to me but I’ve always heard rumors from other kids about suspicious activities

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Necroluster 3 days ago +38

Shit dude, you got lucky.

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Your_jefa 3 days ago +11

Lucky this person was not his type!

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ViolentBeggar92 3 days ago -4

Or hes just ugly

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mcdray2 2 days ago +1

Were you a chubby kid?

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WAYTOOMELO 2 days ago +2

Lmao I was which I do think was the deciding factor

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Doom_Corp 3 days ago +17

I got introduced to him through the Swordfish remix of Planet Rock...it's shocking now that he's passed to see how much of a POS he was. It's going on the list of all the things I loved that are now tainted by people being monstrous human beings.

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Ths-Fkin-Guy 2 days ago +1

That and Vice City before it all got remixed in the 00s

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cboogie 3 days ago +9

I used to work at the Westchester Apple Store and he used to come in for Logic lessons. He did not smell good.

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datamatr1x 3 days ago +2

I don't get it. What did AB and Logic have to talk about?

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cboogie 3 days ago +2

Maybe I’m not getting the joke but Logic is music production and recording software.

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dragonslayerbarbie 2 days ago +1

Logic is another rapper, I'm assuming the person you're responding to thought you were talking about Logic the rapper

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JFKsBrain 3 days ago +8

Damn. For a split second I was going to write RIP. Loved Afrika’s music. Then I remembered the allegations. Rot in hell.

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Babylon-Sarah 3 days ago +9

Only remember his collaboration with John Lydon. Listened to KRS but reading the history, dam 😣 Who else in my vynal collection is about to get smashed? Edit: When I say smashed, I mean my records physically 😡

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datamatr1x 3 days ago +2

Hope you're not a Chuck Berry fan.

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Babylon-Sarah 3 days ago +1

Lol.. No thank goodness.

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Uuuuuii 3 days ago +1

Toilet c*** are tame nowadays in comparison

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rolemodel4kids 3 days ago +6

He spoke at my college in 2012, before the allegations came out. I left the auditorium feeling very disappointed. He was sitting down the entire time, wearing sunglasses, not a sign of life anywhere, and barely spoke a coherent thought. He was accompanied by another man who fielded all the audience questions for him. I was thinking, is this some Weekend at Bernies shit?

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PandaApprehensive131 3 days ago +6

His song in Vanilla Sky was spot on for the club scene.

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blames_the_netcode 3 days ago +3

That was Leftfield, he was just doing guest vocals.

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PandaApprehensive131 3 days ago +3

True but they are both credited for the song on the soundtrack album.

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Forsaken_3sgtej25_2 3 days ago +6

F him he abused many people

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ExtremelyLocal 3 days ago +4

May he rest in hell

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Groovy66 3 days ago +4

JFC another child abuser?

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Due_Statement9998 3 days ago +3

He was nota good guy.

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HybridS9ldier 3 days ago +3

After reading his Wikipedia, I’m sure even Satan went “Jesus. We gotta build a whole new circle for this m***********.”

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Built4dominance 3 days ago +3

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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conceptsinfromage 3 days ago +3

Serial child molester. Rot in hell.

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flcinusa 3 days ago +5

To quote Dan Soder found a Macho Man Randy Savage impression at the time, Zulu Nation, you were there and you were watching https://youtu.be/58kWpBGb5Uw

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MadisonAveMuse 3 days ago +2

Oof. Just read his wiki page.

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ColdEggs-for-Dinner 3 days ago +2

Hassan Campbell in shambles right now

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Evening-Statement-57 2 days ago +2

67 is old af for an old school rapper

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OpportunityKey4398 3 days ago +7

Afrika Bam Bottom

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Fast_Chest9306 2 days ago +1

Wow i just found out about his crimes against children!

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FeelingBlueberry 3 days ago +1

I started to read that but I got stuck on Rev. Dr. Kurtis Blow.

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Troyabedinthemornin 3 days ago +26

Does he? Apparently him molesting kids for decades was an open secret in the industry

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NO_Microwave 3 days ago +16

There are claims he had his way w all the boys in the Bronx river houses...

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Old_Handle3031 3 days ago -1

Today we have lost a musical pioneer. RIP

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Egalitarian_Wish 3 days ago -7

Just listening to Afrika Bambaataa this morning. That music is eternal.

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dragonslayerbarbie 2 days ago +2

So is the trauma he inflicted on all those children.

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Egalitarian_Wish 2 days ago +1

That is awful. I am so sorry to the victims. In the dumpster it goes.

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