{"id":201698,"date":"2026-04-10T07:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/controversial-us-hip-hop-pioneer-afrika-bambaataa-dies-aged-68\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T07:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:49:12","slug":"controversial-us-hip-hop-pioneer-afrika-bambaataa-dies-aged-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/controversial-us-hip-hop-pioneer-afrika-bambaataa-dies-aged-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial US hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa dies aged 68"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;His vision transformed the Bronx into the birthplace of a culture that now reaches every corner of the world,&#8221; said American rapper and producer Kurtis Walker (aka Kurtis Blow), who heads labor advocacy group The Hip Hop Alliance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2026\/04\/10\/controversial-us-hip-hop-pioneer-afrika-bambaataa-dies-aged-68\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;His vision transformed the Bronx into the birthplace of a culture that now reaches every corner of the world,&#8221; said American rapper and producer Kurtis Walker (aka Kurtis Blow), who heads labor advocacy group The Hip Hop Alliance. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":201699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}