Afrika bambaataa

Born in a Jamaican and Barbadian immigrant family, Lance Taylor ^[6] Bambaataa grew up in a Bronx River Houses project with an activist mother and uncle. As a child, he was involved in the movement for the emancipation of the black population and witnessed a debate between his mother and uncle about conflicting ideologies in motion. He was presented with an extensive and eclectic collection of records of his mother. ^[3] Street gangs in the area became law, clearing their territory from drug dealers, helping with public health programs and fighting and throwing parties to save participants and territory. ^[3] Bambaata was a member of the gang (from English - "Black Peaks"). He quickly rose to the post of commander of one of the divisions. As a commander, his job was to build ranks and expand the territory of young gang members. He was not afraid to cross territories in order to improve relations with other members of the gang and with other gangs. As a result, the Peaks have become the largest gang in the city in terms of membership and territory. ^[3]

After Bambaataa won the essay contest that brought him a trip to Africa, his worldview changed. ^[7] He watched the Zulu film and was impressed by the solidarity shown by the Zulus in that film. The communities he visited in Africa inspired him to create the same in his own district, the South Bronx . ^[3] He changed his name to Afrika Bambaataa Aasim, taking the name of the leader of the Zulus , who led an armed uprising against unfair economic practices in the early 20th century in South Africa . Bambaataa assembled a team of b-boys, graffiti virtuosos and DJs, which was initially called the Bronx River Organization ( The Bronx River Organization ), and then was renamed the Zulu Nation ( English Zulu Nation ). Their goal was to promote hip-hop culture around the world and the fight against racism. ^[3]

Inspired by DJ Kool Herc and Kool DJ Dee, Bambaataa has been leading the hip-hop parties since 1977. He promised that he would use hip-hop to get the children out of the gangs and formed the Universal Zulu Nation (from English - “World Zulu Nation”). ^[8] It is believed that it was Robert Keith Wiggins, also known as the Cowboy of the Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five group, who coined the term “hip-hop” in 1978; The term has become a generic phrase used by the MC as part of a fast rhyming style. ^[9] In the documentary Just To Get A Rep (2004), writer Stephen Hager claims that he first used the term “hip hop” in his article in the Village Voice newspaper , where he quoted Bambataa, who in an interview calls the culture "hip-hop." The article was written in the spring of 1982, but it came out six months later, on September 21, 1982, under the title “Afrika Bambaataa's Hip Hop” and becomes the first mention of hip-hop in the press. Stephen Hager also wrote the script of the cult film about hip hop Beat Street (1984). ^[ten]

In 1982, Bambaata and his followers, a group of dancers, artists, and DJs, went beyond the borders of the United States, organizing the first hip-hop tour. ^[3] He saw that hip-hop tours would be the key to help expand hip-hop and its organization Universal Zulu Nation. In addition, it will help promote the values ​​of hip-hop, which, in his opinion, are based on peace, unity, love, and fun pastime. He brought peace to the gangs; Many artists and gang members say that “hip-hop has saved many lives” ^[8] . His influence has inspired many foreign artists, such as French rapper MC Solaar . ^[8] . He was a popular DJ rap scene in the South Bronx and became known not only as Afrika Bambaataa, but also as “Master Of Records”. ^[11] He founded two rap teams: The Jazzy 5, which included MC: Master Ice, Mr. Freeze, Master Bee, Master DEE, and AJ Les, and the second team is known as the Soulsonic Force, which included Mr. Biggs, Pow Wow and Emcee GLOBE ^[12]

In 1982, Taylor, inspired by the futuristic electronic music of the Kraftwerk group, debuted on the stage of The Roxy New York club with a vinyl single "AEIOU Sometimes Y" by the innovative group . It was the first commercially released American single ever made on a computer, , which opened the era of sampling music on computers. ^[13] In the same year, Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force abandoned the living group to engage in high technology. Bambaataa called the inspiring innovative Japanese electropop group Yellow Magic Orchestra , whose works he sampled. ^{[14] [15]} He also borrowed keyboards from German pioneers of electronic music , Kraftwerk, and received an electronic beat-box made on a Roland TR-808 drum machine from producer and keyboard player . As a result, the song “Planet Rock” appeared, which received a golden status and spawned an entire school of “electro-boogie” rap and dance music. Bambaataa created his own label to release Time Zone compilation. He created the “ ground approach ” as his own subgenre and ratified the “electronics” as an industry certified trend in the late 1990s. ^[sixteen]

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• Afrika bambaataa biography at hiphop.sh
• Afrika Bambaataa (English) on the MusicBrainz website
• [ Afrika Bambaataa (English) on AllMusic Afrika Bambaataa] at Allmusic
• Bambaataa, Afrika (November 12, 2012), DJ Afrika Bambaataa . Interview, Oral History Library, National Association of Music Merchants , < https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/dj-afrika-bambaataa > . Checked October 11, 2016.   Talk DJs
• Afrika Bambaataa Interview at Elementality
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