Cyrus Langhorne
Hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa‘s legacy is reportedly being honored at prestigious school Cornell University.
According to reports, hip-hop heads will soon be able to check out Bambaataa’s extensive record collection at Cornell.
Afrika Bambaataa’s record collection will be archived and preserved in the Cornell University Library’s Hip Hop Collection, the school’s newspaper The Chronicle reports. The acquisition comes after the end of Bambaataa’s three year term as the Cornell Hip Hop Collection’s first visiting scholar and was allowed through a $260,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. (FACT)
Bambaataa’s relationship with Cornell stems from supporting the school’s Hip Hop Collection facility.
Bambaataa has been a visiting scholar of hip hop at the University for the last three years and has already annotated and numbered many of the records in his collection which, once fully archived, will be searchable through an online database and open to the public. (THUMP)
Recently, former politician Ronald Savage accused Afrika of molestation over 30 years ago.
“I was a kid when this happened. I wanted to be down with the in-crowd, not really understanding that what Bambaataa was doing to me was molesting me. I knew it was wrong. I had these feelings that were like, ‘Yuck.'(Shot 97)
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Savage first broke this news in a new book called Impulse, Urges and Fantasies.
In his latest book, Impulse, Urges and Fantasies, former New York State Democratic Committee Member and author Ronald Savage claims he was molested by Hip Hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa (who he says he disguised with a fake name) as a teenager. (The Source)
