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Afrika Bambaataa has died
- shevy-java 7mo agoAwww. Oldschool bboy music in the 1990s and before.
- Klaster_1 7mo agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHQ11l4uiM4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHQ11l4uiM4
- defrost 7mo agoContemporaneously: World Destruction - Afrika Bambaataa & John Lydon (Released on: 31/12/1984) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoXGMSOIrIs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoXGMSOIrIs
- phendrenad2 7mo agoGreat bumper music for the progressive history podcast _Blowback_.
- waffletower 7mo ago"Bruce Dickinson" would definitely say that there wasn't enough cowbell
- jimt1234 7mo agoAfrika Bambaataa is a major reason I fell in love with hip hop back around '82. Further, I've always felt "perfect beat" is a much better song than the more popular "planet rock". Back then, "planet rock" was for regular folk, "perfect beat" was for the breakers. Regular folk would be dancing on the floor, just like normal, and then, later in the evening, the DJ would drop "perfect beat" and it was on - specifically, this part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=229&v=rHQ11l4uiM4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=229&v=rHQ11l4uiM4 . The dance floor would clear, otherwise you'd catch a foot from some dude spinning around. Good times. I'm still trying to digest all the s3xual abuse allegations against Bam later in life. RIP Bam
- wahnfrieden 7mo agoThe allegations became public later in his life but the incidents go back to the 80s and 90s, his whole career. Rest In Piss indeed
- echelon_musk 7mo ago> s3xual This is not TikTok. You can spell the word sexual without fear.
- butlike 7mo agoIs TikTok how the practice of censoring one's own swears came about? I've seen it on a lot of social posts and have been wondering. Besides it being hokey (why use the word to then immediately self-censor), it also instantly dates the poster as someone too new to the world to be able to make an interesting post. That last part is just an opinion, though.
- shoxidizer 7mo agoThis is more of my personal axe to grind, but it's important to view this as a result of monetized content and highly algorithmic feeds. It is my understanding that these platforms don't even really remove this language, just demote it, but that the culture on these networks is entwined with people who post for money, so anything that reduces exposure or payout is shunned. This is true for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube (shorts). That said I wouldn't even assume "s3xual" is a result of this. It smells of older censorship to me, all the new stuff is video-first, so phonetic substitutes are more characteristic.
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- mind-blight 7mo agoBecause it's Afrika Bambaataa. He invented entirely new techniques for making music - which is already enough for him to be relevant here - that influences what many of us listen to daily.
- jimt1234 7mo agoBack in the early-80s, after learning about sampled music, most people's next question was, "Who the fuck is Kraftwerk?" LOL
- Teever 7mo agoI fell into a job bussing tables and porting alcohol at a local live music venue when I was 19 and I worked there off and on over seven years. As much as I love live music after a while it just sort of became a job, but every now and again an incredible musician would come through and I wouldn’t know until I showed up for my shift and I asked my coworkers who was playing that night. One night I come in and my jaw drops when find out it’s fucking DJ Africa Bambaataa! Now I’m not big into hip hop but I had listened to a few of his albums and I knew his music was phenomenal and I was shocked such a legend was playing in my town. The crazy part is only like 100 people showed up out of a capacity of like 800 but every single one of those people could dance. The venue had an old sound booth that was attached to ceiling and was accessible with a rickety old spiral staircase, as it was so slow that night I spent most of my time up there just soaking in that experience. I’ve seen a lot of live shows in my day but that one stands out.
- kristopolous 7mo agoyeah, he was skilled. Got to see him a few years ago.
- contubernio 7mo agoBambaataa was a serial sexual abuser and everybody in the rap scene knew it back in the day (early 90s) same way everyone knew about R. Kelly (I ran a rap program on the radio in 92-94).
- sjtgraham 7mo agoWhat did you do about it at the time?
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- chris_wot 7mo agoThe same thing you did. What sort of question is that?
- sjtgraham 6mo agoI didn't know anything about any of the above.
- contubernio 7mo agoNot a reasonable question. All my information was third hand at best. We didn't play Bambaataa, R Kelly or Tupac (convicted rapist) records. That's about all a radio station could do. Can't state what legally speaking were merely rumors on the air without facing problems. All you can do is not support them commercially, which we did.
- lostlogin 7mo agoI’d say it is a reasonable question, with a really good answer.
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- jaapz 7mo agoWhere's this homophobia exactly?
- prmoustache 7mo agoIssue is not homophobia but grooming and sexual abuse. French ex rapper Solo mentionned in his book he witnessed and was himself groomed and abused at 17 by Afrika Bambaataa and all Bambaataa's entourage knew about that and just chose to either ignore or even facilitate it. It seemed to have been an open secret within at least NYC hip hop circle and the Zulu Nation in general which chose to ignore and even attack the victims who speaked out.
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- philipallstar 7mo agoIf all you can see is homophobia then maybe you need your perception testing.
- gvv 7mo agoHacker news?
- wartywhoa23 7mo agoYes. Many hackers are into music and culture in general, among other things.
- nailer 7mo agoI got into this guy via this Leftfield collab, it’s a great video: https://youtu.be/KvxbFWY2Hsc https://youtu.be/KvxbFWY2Hsc sad to hear he was a creep.
- gosub100 7mo agoThis brings up a point I often ponder: should the records of horrific criminals be cancelled? Consider the two extremes: A) artist is never played again, no more royalties are paid. Nobody gets to enjoy the music. B) the artist's estate is sold to a victims compensation trust, that collects, say, $4m/year that gets distributed to victims and charities. You still hear their song occasionally on the radio and gradually forget about their plight over the years. Which one brings the victims closer to justice?
- philipallstar 7mo agoThis is an incomplete dichotomy. Option a) means the victims never have to hear their abuser's voice again.
- eudamoniac 7mo agoC: they go through the legal justice system which has nothing to do with music, and people continue to play the songs they want to hear
- butlike 7mo agoShould they ban Mein Kampf?
- _sys49152 7mo agoi can seperate art from the artist. why do i need socially performative nannies censoring whether i can watch ren and stimpy or not?
- rikthevik 7mo agoI saw DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist's Afrika Bambaataa tribute and it was just outstanding. One of the best shows I've seen and some seriously talented people. Then I learned more about Afrika and how his misdeeds were mostly ignored. When I open up a famous author / musician / athlete's wikipedia page, it feels like it's a coin flip over whether there's some horrible thing they've done and largely gotten away with it. I'm still upset about Neil Gaiman. I connected deeply with a lot of his work in my youth and now I don't know what to think...
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- lproven 7mo agoHe opened for Gorillaz in Prague about 8Y ago, and did a good set. Dude looked old and tired, but also happy to be there, performing live.