I'm helping a friend with a film on New York's rough streets in the 70's that spawned Hip Hop. Historians tell us Hip Hop was created back in the Bronx in the 70's when Afrika Bambatta dissolved his gang the Black Spades and unified with other Black and Hispanic gangs. I'm finding out that there were other pioneers before Afrika Bambatta. Afrika Bambatta still deserves credit as one of the more important figures because of his appreciation for all types of music and his desire to include all in Hip Hop:
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