After weeks of sexual abuse allegations, Africa Bambaataa has finally broken his silence on the scandal. He sat down for an exclusive television interview with Fox 5 where he denies abusing any of the men who came forward against him.
“I never abused nobody. You know, it just sounds crazy to people to say that, hear ‘you abused me,'” Bambaataa told Fox 5’s Lisa Evers. “You know my thing is you know all my people back then, you know the hundreds of people that been around me. If something like that happened, why you never went to none of them?”
New York politician, Â Ronald Savage, was the first to blow the whistle on the alleged abuse, claiming he was molested multiple times back in 1980. In response to those allegations Bambaataa stated:
“The brother knows the people who he came around in my group with, and knows that he wasn’t in my presence unless among those people and he needs to go back and speak to those people who were part of our organization and deal with them,” Bambaataa said. “And stop all this type of craziness that they been trying to put by attacking me.”
He goes on to say, “I ain’t touched this brother whatsoever.”
The statute of limitations stops Savage or any of his other accusers to file any criminal or civil charges, but of course Savage is lobbying to eliminate the rule altogether.
“What is the motivation, what is the agenda?” he said. “It’s hard to say. You don’t know what many of these people are thinking. What is behind it. Some parts are saying it could be shakeups. Certain things people might have wanted.”
You can catch the rest of the interview below:
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