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trevrichards Apr 9, 2026 +165

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

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[deleted] Apr 9, 2026 -56

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Forsaken-Swim-3055 Apr 9, 2026 +77

I hope his victims are okay today.

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Forsaken_3sgtej25_2 Apr 9, 2026 +10

With news like they are

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Apprehensive-Ant2141 Apr 10, 2026 +2

Exactly what I came to say.

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RandomTez Apr 9, 2026 +229

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

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Ok-Coconut-5965 Apr 9, 2026 +48

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

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RobertLouisDrakeIII Apr 9, 2026 +12

that’s my kink brother

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Dismal_News183 Apr 9, 2026 +9

Find the republican

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New_Independent5819 Apr 10, 2026 +1

I believe in you

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BrickGlum9579 Apr 9, 2026 +168

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

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imjustsurfin Apr 9, 2026 +55

Neither did I. :-(

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SouldiesButGoodies84 Apr 9, 2026 +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 Apr 9, 2026 +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 Apr 9, 2026 +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 Apr 9, 2026 +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 Apr 9, 2026 +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 Apr 9, 2026 +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 Apr 9, 2026 +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 Apr 9, 2026 +4

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

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TheRealDynamitri Apr 9, 2026 +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 Apr 9, 2026 +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 Apr 9, 2026 +4

Nastyyyy work

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TheRealDynamitri Apr 10, 2026 +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 Apr 10, 2026 +3

I am now even more sad and even more tired

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slingerofpoisoncups Apr 10, 2026 +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 Apr 10, 2026 +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 Apr 9, 2026 +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 Apr 10, 2026 +1

I hope his victims can sleep easy tonight.

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nine57th Apr 9, 2026 +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 Apr 9, 2026 +22

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

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Howie_Due Apr 9, 2026 +13

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

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MRuppercutz Apr 10, 2026

And for saying he loves to beat down white boys.

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Built4dominance Apr 10, 2026 +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 Apr 9, 2026 +17

Dude was a prolific child molester

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bayoubunny88 Apr 9, 2026 +6

Whaaaaat?

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aresef Apr 10, 2026 +1

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

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Forsaken_3sgtej25_2 Apr 9, 2026 +4

Yes he was

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WAYTOOMELO Apr 9, 2026 +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 Apr 9, 2026 +38

Shit dude, you got lucky.

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Your_jefa Apr 9, 2026 +11

Lucky this person was not his type!

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ViolentBeggar92 Apr 9, 2026 -4

Or hes just ugly

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mcdray2 Apr 10, 2026 +1

Were you a chubby kid?

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WAYTOOMELO Apr 10, 2026 +2

Lmao I was which I do think was the deciding factor

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Doom_Corp Apr 9, 2026 +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 Apr 10, 2026 +1

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

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cboogie Apr 9, 2026 +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 Apr 10, 2026 +2

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

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cboogie Apr 10, 2026 +2

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

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dragonslayerbarbie Apr 10, 2026 +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 Apr 9, 2026 +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 Apr 10, 2026 +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 Apr 10, 2026 +2

Hope you're not a Chuck Berry fan.

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Babylon-Sarah Apr 10, 2026 +1

Lol.. No thank goodness.

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Uuuuuii Apr 10, 2026 +1

Toilet c*** are tame nowadays in comparison

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rolemodel4kids Apr 9, 2026 +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 Apr 9, 2026 +6

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

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blames_the_netcode Apr 10, 2026 +3

That was Leftfield, he was just doing guest vocals.

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PandaApprehensive131 Apr 10, 2026 +3

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

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Forsaken_3sgtej25_2 Apr 9, 2026 +6

F him he abused many people

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ExtremelyLocal Apr 10, 2026 +4

May he rest in hell

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Groovy66 Apr 10, 2026 +4

JFC another child abuser?

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Due_Statement9998 Apr 9, 2026 +3

He was nota good guy.

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HybridS9ldier Apr 10, 2026 +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 Apr 10, 2026 +3

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

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conceptsinfromage Apr 10, 2026 +3

Serial child molester. Rot in hell.

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flcinusa Apr 9, 2026 +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 Apr 9, 2026 +2

Oof. Just read his wiki page.

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ColdEggs-for-Dinner Apr 10, 2026 +2

Hassan Campbell in shambles right now

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Evening-Statement-57 Apr 10, 2026 +2

67 is old af for an old school rapper

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OpportunityKey4398 Apr 9, 2026 +7

Afrika Bam Bottom

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Fast_Chest9306 Apr 11, 2026 +1

Wow i just found out about his crimes against children!

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FeelingBlueberry Apr 9, 2026 +1

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

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Troyabedinthemornin Apr 9, 2026 +26

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

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NO_Microwave Apr 9, 2026 +16

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

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Old_Handle3031 Apr 10, 2026 -1

Today we have lost a musical pioneer. RIP

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Egalitarian_Wish Apr 9, 2026 -7

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

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dragonslayerbarbie Apr 10, 2026 +2

So is the trauma he inflicted on all those children.

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Egalitarian_Wish Apr 10, 2026 +1

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

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