{"id":2366151,"date":"2026-04-09T22:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2366151"},"modified":"2026-04-09T22:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:27:06","slug":"pioneering-us-hip-hop-artist-afrika-bambaataa-dies-at-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/pioneering-us-hip-hop-artist-afrika-bambaataa-dies-at-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneering US hip-hop artist Afrika Bambaataa dies at 68"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Groundbreaking US hip-hop artist and DJ Afrika Bambaataa, known for his 1982 hit &#8220;Planet Rock,&#8221; has died at age 68, his former record label said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;With his passing, we reflect on his contributions to the genre and broader culture, which continue to this day,&#8221; Tommy Boy Records said in an Instagram post alongside a picture of Bambaataa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Celebrity news site TMZ, citing unnamed sources, reported that Bambaataa died from complications of cancer at about 3:00 am (0700 GMT) Thursday in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">bjt-pel\/sst<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groundbreaking US hip-hop artist and DJ Afrika Bambaataa, known for his 1982 hit &#8220;Planet Rock,&#8221; has died at age 68, his former record label said Thursday. &#8220;With his passing, we reflect on his contributions to the genre and broader culture, which continue to this day,&#8221; Tommy Boy Records said in an Instagram post alongside a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2366152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[459815,407782,459817,459816],"class_list":["post-2366151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-afrika-bambaataa","tag-planet-rock","tag-scott-gries","tag-tommy-boy-records"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Pioneering-US-hip-hop-artist-Afrika-Bambaataa-dies-at-68.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2366151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2366153,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366151\/revisions\/2366153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2366152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2366151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2366151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2366151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}