Hip Hop pioneer, Godfather, icon, Afrika Bambaataa is putting his substantial weight behind a new proposal to transform the abandoned Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx into a community cultural, recreational and market center that would include a National Museum of Hip-Hop. Bam, a Bronx native, has signed a letter-of-intent to help create a National Museum [...]
The Godfather of Hip-Hop, Afrika Bambaataa Named a Cornell Univ. Visiting Scholar
August 15, 2012 | Posted by
Hip-hop godfather Afrika Bambaataa has been named a visiting scholar at Cornell University, the University Library’s Hip-Hop Collection announced yesterday. Throughout Bambaataa’s three-year term, the pioneering South Bronx DJ and MC will visit the Ivy League school’s campus in Ithaca, New York, several times per year to speak in classes, meet with students and community [...]
