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Fully seven months after its publication, The Rock Snob*s Dictionary is still getting the love. Stephen Metcalf of Slate calls us “delightful” and uses the book as a pretext for a very entertaining little essay. November 04, 2005 More Rock Snobbery »
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Bambaataa, Afrika. Zulu-centric OLD-SCHOOL Bronx DJ whose 1982 hit “Planet Rock” put Tommy Boy Records on the map and fused hip-hop with Caucasoid electronic music, built as it was around a figure from KRAFTWERK’s “Trans-Europe Express.” Despite his gang-member past and imposing cyborg mien (winged shades, hooded robes, vocoder-ized vocals), Bambaataa proved an affable ambassador of hip-hop culture to the white world, performing at such downtown new-wave clubs as the Mudd Club and the Peppermint Lounge in the early ’80s while presiding over his own “Zulu Nation” collective of DJs and b-boys uptown. Read more from the Rock Snob's Dictionary » 
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