Hip-hop has different elements dealing with music, rap, graffiti art, b-boys (what you call break boys)… and also dealing with culture, and a whole movement dealing with wisdom and understanding, as well as peace unity and fun.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAThanks to my traveling, and keeping up from place to place, and pushing our ideology – peace, love, unity, and having fun – it has worked.
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It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that’s happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community.
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There’s a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase.
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There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.
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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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That’s the beauty of sampling: taking the old sound and recreating it and making something new, or bringing back the old sounds, mixed with some heavy grooves and beats, so people can remember. “Oh, I remember that, back in the day.”
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All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music.
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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don’t know what they’re talking about. They just think of the rappers.
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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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Overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
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We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let’s get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from.
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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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