A BLAST FROM THE PAST

Afrika Bambaataa is  one of hip hop’s godfathers.

As a teenager in the mid-1970′s, he fell into the Black Spades gang, but had a different interest than causing trouble.

He had a passion for buying records (he would later be known as the “Master of Records”) and his tastes were very diversified from rock to r&b to African sounds to Latin, calypso, and classical.  Although was the top DJ KOO HERC  at the time, Bam knew he owned most of the same records as Herc so he decided to start playing on his own.    In 1974 Bam decided to form his own Zulu Nation to help assemble what he referred to as “the elements” of the culture into organization.  He original crew was called The Organization, but after two years he changed it into the Zulu Nation.