{"id":191300,"date":"2026-04-09T20:12:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191300\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T20:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:12:36","slug":"rapper-afrika-bambaataa-dies-at-67-from-cancer-complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191300\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Afrika Bambaataa dies at 67 from cancer complications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pioneering rapper and DJ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DW65ey-DcCT\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Afrika Bambaataa has died<\/a>. The Bronx native was 67.<\/p>\n<p>The Hip Hop Alliance, headed by fellow hip hop icon Kurtis Blow, announced his death Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, we acknowledge the transition of a foundational architect of Hip Hop culture, Afrika Bambaataa,\u201d the message said. \u201cAs the founder of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa helped shape the early identity of Hip Hop as a global movement rooted in peace, unity, love, and having fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blow acknowledged the performer, born Lance Taylor, leaves behind a legacy that is \u201ccomplex,\u201d likely an allusion to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2025\/may\/23\/hip-hop-pioneer-afrika-bambaataa-loses-civil-case-suing-him-for-child-sexual-abuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">multiple allegations of child abuse<\/a> against the musician, dating as far back as the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>TMZ said Bambaataa died of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/04\/09\/afrika-bambaataa-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> complications from cancer<\/a> around 3 a.m. in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pioneering rapper and DJ Afrika Bambaataa has died. The Bronx native was 67. The Hip Hop Alliance, headed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[76581,76580,128,13483,4155,74221,1123,9,24,63,33372,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-191300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-76581","9":"tag-afrika-bambaataa","10":"tag-bronx","11":"tag-cancer","12":"tag-dead","13":"tag-dj","14":"tag-hip-hop","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-rapper","19":"tag-the-bronx","20":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","21":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}