The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAI don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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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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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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Thanks 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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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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November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.
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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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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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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.
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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what’s around them.
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