{"id":593956,"date":"2026-04-10T03:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/593956\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T03:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:54:10","slug":"hip-hop-pioneer-afrika-bambaataa-dies-aged-67-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/593956\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip-hop pioneer, Afrika Bambaataa, dies aged 67 &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTFBKRW0wQTRCRUROTFZoUlBheHBvYUR4OHg5Qy14bUx6UnU0UUdjZzFyOWhPYUtSZWdqTFJZZWpmYTZJNVpiV3JGZmNhWm9KU0lYTFI5YzJsQTN3dw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hip-hop pioneer, Afrika Bambaataa, dies aged 67<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMifEFVX3lxTE5FUjVhdjZGVXFhNWdlcGd0cVFfU1FTTGtSTTlwN0tLWDhOdFNUaTN6YzhkTmxvRy1sdV9MTjlkTnpkMU9SeE1nYUZIc0RaYk5aSWYyN1pNaW5vRkthZDNOUm5POTV1NVNPZXNDUmp6S015Vy1TZmlvWWotemw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Afrika Bambaataa, Often Called the \u2018Godfather of Hip-Hop,\u2019 Is Dead<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The New York Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiiwFBVV95cUxNQWJOQm54dmNPeFV0elR5cDhoc3pSMkU1ang2MEQ1YTRlS3lib0hfVmlMYkd1M3F6NmU5eXE5TUF6ajlWdEEtbGU2ODFIbUZfdU5DMVRGWUxMbHNYakdMWVJOeFlQVDdtY3ljYUQ1OVFwUFB1bTZUZEFRYTNSVVNaQ2NVbVVmalg4eGNF?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Afrika Bambaataa, hip-hop pioneer, dies aged 67<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMifkFVX3lxTFBvMEMzaTZHWlFTYm5zNGpNWDJpN1FhYjlBU2ZRNUxVZTNKMlZOaFJNWHduMjU1S1VkZmNPYmI3NmpNSl81ODFEUC1ickJnV0EybGtWUlNBaW9QZlR6MkRuemNEMVNHZEFndUtYOHc5Zk5kdnl3clVaZlRKYkVNZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York City&#8217;s Afrika Bambaataa dead at 68; What to know<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Yahoo News Canada<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiY0FVX3lxTE1fclpzTTRYNUI3Q2lvN1JmbmlFTnVtc19vU0JMOUxZbm5Ua1RvWWlEcF9kYzBuS0diSzFoSzRTSllqMXFfcFlTMmE1b1ZvWGxPN2psMlBzUnZQUWtmTTdWb19VMA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hip Hop Pioneer Afrika Bambaataa Dead at 67<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;TMZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hip-hop pioneer, Afrika Bambaataa, dies aged 67&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCAfrika Bambaataa, Often Called the \u2018Godfather of Hip-Hop,\u2019 Is Dead&nbsp;&nbsp;The New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-593956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}