Apparently he was a BL. Only really knew of him as a minor pioneer in rap and synth-pop (his "Planet Rock" is considered one of the first entirely synth-based songs to become a hit), but apparently he was quite an interesting person. The linked article is all "rape schrape" but the truth we all know...
https://www.vice.com/en/article/afrika- ... campbell-2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J3lwZjHenA
R.I.P. Afrika Bambaataa
Re: R.I.P. Afrika Bambaataa
By the way, surprisingly (because, given the current political climate, this sort of thing doesn't usually happen), the main accuser in that article retracted his statement years later:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/ ... xual-abuseIn 2016, the Democratic party activist and former music industry executive Ronald Savage alleged that Bambaataa had repeatedly abused him in 1980, when he was 15 and Bambaataa 23. In 2024 he recanted his allegations, saying that he met Bambaataa at a club he had used a fake ID to enter.
“Bambaataa is not a paedophile and, in my eyes, he was doing something that was consensual with someone that he thought was of age,” he told AllHipHop. “I wish, back in 2016, I remembered about the fake ID.”