News Summary

• Bambaataa's sudden death was met with an outpouring of condolences from friends, family and fans across the world.
• The rapper and producer is best known for breakthrough tracks like 1982's Planet Rock and for founding the Universal Zulu Nation art collective.
• He was born Lance Taylor in 1957 in the south Bronx, and he came of age when the New York City neighbourhood was rapidly deteriorating after intensifying segregation and years of economic neglect.
• The ability to repurpose and mix old hits became one of his signatures at the parties he began to throw in community centres across the neighbourhood in the early 1970s.