According to our sources close to the situation, a Pioneer of Hip Hop and Co-Founder of 'Zulu Nation" DJ Afrika Bambaataa has died from cancer at 3am today in Pennsylvania.

Bam was born in the Bronx and was a former member of the "Black Spades" before co-founding the "Universal Zulu Nation" in the 1980's, he was also a member of the "Soul Sonic Force" Hip Hop Group which dropped a number one single called "Planet Rock".

Afrika Bambaataa was 67 years old and was highly respected as a Pioneer of Hip Hop and Zulu Nation, me included as a former member of "Zulu Nation, Sleep Well Fella, Blackfoot President Chapter 17.