Even if you don’t know him, you know him. Hip-Hop Icon Afrika Bambaataa brought you Renegades of Funk, Just get up and Dance, and Planet Rock (Everyone knows Planet Rock). And now he will teach it to the world. Cornell University, a private Ivy league research university in Ithaca, NY, has offered him a three term deal as a visiting scholar to teach Hip-Hop music and culture. South Bronx in the house! Meanwhile, Cornell’s library holds the largest national archive of hip-hop culture. I’m completely serious… and a little pissed that I didn’t know about this when I decided to go to PITT. However, I am 100 years old, so they were probably building it at the time.
How do I get in this class? How can I get my friends in? Just the other day my 25 year old coworker looked at a flyer for a party we were attending and said “who’s da-see-eff-x?” Das EFX, fool! Please Afrika, help them.
Now I want to hear Planet Rock.
Tamara Lynch 
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