Hip Hop History: Afrika Islam, Zulu Beatshow 1983 - Dj Grazzhoppa

Afrika Islam (born Charles Glenn, 1968, New York City) also known as the "Son of Hip Hop legend Afrika Bambaataa", is an American hip-hop producer. In the 1980s he moved to Los Angeles where he co-produced Ice T's early albums Rhyme Pays and Power. In the late 1990s, Afrika Islam joined German techno icon Westbam to form Mr. X and Mr. Y, a techno duo that made commercial techno with Electro influences (remember that when you guys wanna ride on how whack Techno is, he damn near invented it).

Download: Afrika Islam - in 1983

Hip Hop is the most beautiful Counter-Culture ever...

Counter-cultures are always spawned from the segment of the society that doesn't fit into the mainstream. Hip Hop has always been about the risk taker...the true rebels, the in your face non-compliant exuberance of inner city youth. It translated in fashion, dance and in every other facet of art that it touched. I was born in the golden era of Hip Hop, 1979, all throughout the 80's and 90's I watched while a culture grew up...sometimes you didn't like what you saw, sometimes you understood, it was just brazen attitude in tune with the times of youthful rebellion. History shows eventually those counter-cultures get bastardized by Corporate America in one way or another, good or bad, and lose their truth and innocence. Before that happened to Hip Hop...there were guys like Afrika Islam.

Click HERE: 1983 - Afrika Islam, Zulu Beats