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Bay Area Hip-Hop Pioneer and Prince’s Personal DJ, Pam the Funkstress, Dead at 51
The Bay Area is mourning one of its pioneers, DJ Pam the Funkstress of the seminal political rap collective the Coup, yet another hip-hop trailblazer gone too soon. She was 51 years old. There had been word buzzing for weeks that the Turntable Queen, born Pam Warren, had been ill, but Bay Area rap godfather…