Afrika Bambaataa News

At the dark end of disco and funk in the early 1980s a DJ and crew known as Afrika Bambaataa had wild, sweaty, drunken sex with the emotionless zombie robot corpse of school-of-Bauhaus German synthpop unit Kraftwerk and an unholy thousand-headed monster rose from the undead to groove across the land.

Posted by Richard Brownell at 10:54:44 PM EST on 10.6.2009. Activision's DJ Hero is set to be released October 27 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, and PlayStation 2. As most of you probably already know, DJ Hero 's tracks are each mash-ups of two songs with one of them usually being a hip-hop style.

"American Idol" finalist Blake Lewis has caught his second wind. Despite being dropped by his label Arista, Lewis is releasing a second album, this time around with Tommy Boy Entertainment.

Hundreds, if not thousands, of hip-hop artists have sampled James Brown. Legendary DJ Afrika Bambaataa -- also known as the Godfather of Hip-Hop, Master of Records and founder of the Universal Zulu Nation -- actually worked with him.

Hip-Hop emerged from the ghettos of New York City in the early 70s. Tracing its roots in the African American and Latino culture of the city's impoverished neighborhoods, hip hop was a cultural fact that encompassed a whole range of stereotypes and role models mainly associated to the black civil rights.