Afrika Bambaataa breaks silence on molestation allegations

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For the first time, Afrika Bambaataa is speaking out about the multiple allegations against him of sexual abuse of young boys decades ago.

In an exclusive TV interview with Fox 5, he denied the allegations and suggested that the accusations against him were part of an “agenda.”

“I never abused nobody. You know, it just sounds crazy to people to say that, hear ‘you abused me,'” Bambaataa said. “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?”

He went on to say that he was taken aback by the allegations.

“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.”

When asked what he would say to Ronald Savage, the man who claims he was molested by Bambaataa when he was 15 in 1980, he claimed he had never “touched this brother whatsoever.”

“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.”