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...Denniz PoP liked them. Originally a D.J., PoP (his real name was Dag Volle) produced the 1990 Euro hit Hello Afrika by Dr. Alban. But it was PoP's production work on Ace of Base's worldwide smash album The Sign that created global opportunities for the producer and his apprentices. Intrigued by the potential he saw in Martin's rock-edged confections, PoP asked him to come on board as a writer-producer in 1992. "I didn't even know what a producer did," Martin says. He soon found out: "I spent two years day and night in that...
...older than Eminem - Afrika Bambaata was already a turntable legend when Slim Shady was just a glimmer in his dysfunctional family's eyes. In its time, hip-hop's gone from Hollis to Hollywood to the halls of museums. Now it's time to wade through the enormous creative output of the last two decades to separate the wheat from the chaff, the hits from the misses, the heroes from the (MC) Hammers. Is Rakim the microphone god before whom we all must bow down? Is KRS-One still number one? Was Vanilla Ice an unappreciated genius...
...Planet Rock" Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force (Tommy Boy) Possibly the most influential dance record of all time...
...THOSE PARTIES in the "Boogie Down" South Bronx where hip-hop's founding fathers - Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaata and Grandmaster Flash - first began delivering spoken rhymes over the break beats on funk and disco records sometime in the mid-'70s. Today the signature beats-and-rhymes combination of the musical art form they created is as ubiquitous in America's tony suburbs as in its forgotten housing projects, and has kids in distant parts of the world whose first language may be French or Japanese or Wolof chanting choruses inviting their friends to "get at me, dawg...
...York is surely an irascible city, but similar classes are cropping up in much quieter places, towns like Medway, in southern Massachusetts, and Sumter, in rural South Carolina. In Chicago, Leonard Ingram, a.k.a. Bhagwan Ra Afrika, incorporates "Western, Eastern and African approaches" into anger treatments. And Thomas Nelson Publishers of Nashville puts out an Anger Workbook that reminds enraged Christians that Jesus said we should love our neighbors as ourselves...