A man claiming to be Afrika Bambaataa’s ex-bodyguard has come forth to add his two cents on recent child molestation allegations made against the Hip-Hop pioneer.
In an interview with radio personality Star on his Shot97 show, a man named Shamsideen Shariyf Ali Bey claiming to be Afrika Bambaataa’s former bodyguard alleges that the “Planet Rock” rapper has been molesting boys since the 1970s and that he even saw it for himself. In the interview he can be heard saying:
“There’s always a boy in his house. When he leaves and gets home, there’s always a boy there. I’ve seen them camped, asking him for money. He travels with late teens, those are the ones he takes overseas with him. When I went with him on tour in the states, I’d stay in one room, and he would have boys in the room with him…Since the 70s, it’s been hundreds…I can say I’ve walked in on stuff where I say, what the f*ck is going on?”
The allegations first came to light in March when former Afrika Bambaataa associate Ronald Savage said that the Zulu Nation founder began molesting him when he was 13-years old and Bambaataa was 21.
According to Savage, Bambaataa began masturbating, and instructed him to do the same. He goes into greater detail about the alleged incident, and attests that it happened more than once.
Then, in April three more men came forward and said that Bambaataa also molested them when they were in their teens. All three of the accusers claim that the rapper showed them pornography and then performed oral sex on them. One accuser wishing only to be called “Troy” told the New York Daily News that Bambaataa showed him a picture of a penis and told him, “You don’t have to be gay for me to suck your d*ck.”
Shamsideen Shariyf Ali claims that he has asked the Zulu Nation to take action and bring Bambaataa up on charges, but in return he was accused of attempted extortion, forcing him to part ways with the organization.
Bambaataa has denied the claims through his lawyer Vivian Kimi Tozak. The Zulu Nation has also refuted the accusations, going as far to claim that the four men are a part of a United States government plot to take down the organization.
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