A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don’t know what they’re talking about. They just think of the rappers.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAI don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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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Don’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?
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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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Hip-hop has crossed many boundaries and racial barriers, broken them down for people to come together, to listen to the music or come out of their own social ills in each of the countries that it has went to.
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That’s definitely my goal, and always has been through the Universal Zulu Nation, is to show that music breaks down all that foolishness and can bring all types of people together, especially when you can mix it and shape it.
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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it.
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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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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 these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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I’m as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.
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