Earlier this month, news broke that Ronald Savage, a Bronx activist and politician and a former music industry executive, had accused Afrika Bambaataa of sexually abusing him several times in 1980, when Savage was 15 years old. The hip-hop pioneer's lawyer, in a statement, called Savage's claims "defamatory" and "false." Bambaataa, in his own statement, said he wanted "to personally deny any and all allegations of any type of sexual molestation of anyone." Since then, three more men have told the New York Daily News that Bambaataa sexually abused them in their youth. In a new interview on "The Ed Lover Show," Bambaataa's first since reports of the allegations, he has denied them all and suggested the claims are part of an effort to tarnish his reputation. "I completely deny all type of accusations that are being put against your brother Afrika Bambaataa," he said on "The Ed Lover Show," a syndicated radio program hosted by Lover and Monie Love. "You really need to ask the question, 'Why now? And what is the hidden agenda behind this?' Is it because I'm still relevant today trying to help people across the world?" Bambaataa said on the show that he never met Savage. Asked if he planned to file a defamation lawsuit against his accusers, Bambaataa said he had talked with his lawyer. He said Savage was trying to gain publicity to sell his self-published memoir. "It could be me today, and you tomorrow," Bambaataa told the radio hosts. "There's something big behind this." Bambaataa also cited the charitable efforts of the hip-hop awareness organization he founded, the Universal Zulu Nation. "That's been my life," he said. "Stopping violence and helping so many people all over the place." View More Savage has said he went public to change New York's statute of limitations for child sexual abuse. Currently, victims can't pursue civil or criminal claims after they turn 23 years old. After Bambaataa's interview, Savage offered to take a lie detector test if Bambaataa does too, the Daily News reports. Savage's lawyer told the Daily News that he would welcome a defamation lawsuit by Bambaataa. Pitchfork has reached out to Bambaataa's camp for comment. Cornell University, which in March announced it had received a $260,000 grant to catalog Bambaataa's archive, is facing a petition calling on it to cut ties with Bambaataa, the Cornell Sun reports. The Change.org petition, was started by Troi "Star" Torain, a former Hot 97 and Power 105 DJ who recently interviewed Savage about the claims. The petition states, "It is incumbent upon the university to immediately address these allegations and sever its ties with Afrika Bambaataa until these claims have been definitively and without equivocation resolved." The university issued a statement on April 21 saying it had "recently become aware of the allegations against Bambaataa." The statement continued:
Simone Johnson[1] (born 2 July 1970),[1] better known by her stage name Monie Love, is a British rapper, actress and radio personality from London. Best known for her singles during the late–1980s through the 1990s, Monie Love currently serves as a radio personality for urban adult contemporary station KISS 104.1 WALR-FM in Atlanta, Georgia. Love is a two-time Grammy Award nominee, making her the first British female hip hop artist to hold that distinction.[3] Monie Love
Love's debut album, Down to Earth was released on 6 November 1990, spawned the singles "Monie in the Middle" (a track dealing with a woman's right to determine what she wants out of a relationship) and "It's a Shame (My Sister)" (which sampled the (Detroit) Spinners' "It's a Shame", written for the band by the US musician Stevie Wonder) and featured house-music vocalist and then-labelmate Ultra Naté. The album reached No. 26 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.[4] Love also appears on the song titled "United" from Inner City's third album, Praise, and raps a clapback from the woman's perspective on a 1989 remix of the Fine Young Cannibals hit, "She Drives Me Crazy".[5] Love was featured on the LA Reid & Babyface remix of Whitney Houston's R&B hit "My Name Is Not Susan" in 1991, and appeared in the music video alongside Houston. Love's 1992 single "Full-Term Love", from the Class Act movie soundtrack, reached No. 7 on the Hot Hip-Hop Singles chart.[6] Love collaborated with Marley Marl on her second album, In a Word or 2 (1993), which featured the Prince-produced single "Born To B.R.E.E.D." (which reached No. 1 on the Hot Dance Music chart and No. 7 on the Hot Rap Singles chart), as well as a re-release of "Full-Term Love".[6] The same year, Prince asked her to write lyrics for a few songs on a side-project, Carmen Electra's eponymous album, Carmen Electra. Love's last release as lead artist was the single "Slice of da Pie" in 2000. In 2013, she was featured on the track "Sometimes" by Ras Kass, from his album Barmageddon, and in 2021, she released a single called “Divine”, featuring Skyzoo and a friend of theirs called Tuff. US RadioFrom 2004 until the week of 11 December 2006, Love was the morning drive host on Philadelphia's WPHI-FM 100.3. The December 22, 2006, edition of the Philadelphia Daily News confirmed that Love left WPHI-FM on amicable terms after contract negotiations stalled.[7] Love's departure from WPHI followed soon after her December 2006 interview with Young Jeezy, where the two argued over whether hip hop is dead.[8] Love is also an official MySpace.com DJ, according to her Myspace page. She has a radio show on XM Satellite Radio called Ladies First Radio with Monie Love. It airs Thursdays 6 PM ET and Sundays 8 PM ET. In 2015, Love became a DJ on Philadelphia's Boom 107.9, hosting a morning show from 6 am to 10 am. In 2016, Love co-hosted with Ed Lover on the Ed Lover Morning Show for "Boom 92" KROI in Houston, Texas. In 2018, Monie Love did the workday and lunch break from 10am-3pm on 106.7 WTLC in Indianapolis, Indiana.[9] In May 2019, she began hosting afternoons at "KISS 104.1" WALR in Atlanta.[10] Born in England, Love moved to America, settling in New York City in March 1988. Love has four children.[11][12] She has been married twice and is a single parent. [13] Her family is African-Jamaican.
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