Afrika Bambaataa

Hiphop Nation: What It Is

A mystery decoded, a legal field just begun. What is the common bond between Grand Wizard Theodore, Blastmaster, KRSOne, and Stanley Platzer? An historical critical megamix.

by John Leland and Steve Stein

Originally published: January 19, 1988

1984 Pazz & Jop: The Rise of the Corporate Single

by Robert Christgau

January 10, 2019

1983 Pazz & Jop: Who Else? A Goddamn Critics’ Band, That’s Who Else

by Robert Christgau

January 9, 2019

1982 Pazz & Jop: Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome

by Robert Christgau

January 8, 2019

TRIPPING OUT

January 1, 2014

ALL-ABOARD

August 21, 2013

Finding Hip-Hop’s Beginning in Afrika Bambaataa’s 40,000-Deep Record Collection

by Brett Koshkin

July 17, 2013

BASS SHOP PRO

May 15, 2013

Spring Arts Guide Picks: Music

by Seth Colter Walls

March 27, 2013

“Old-School Three Times Over”: Meet Afrika Bambaataa, Cornell Professor

by Michael Alan Goldberg

November 8, 2012