When you talk about hip-hop, you’re talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAWe gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.
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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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You put music in categories because you need to define a sound, but when you don’t play it on your so-called radio stations that claim to be R&B or jazz or whatever.
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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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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 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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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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Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There’s the rap which is a form of hip hop culture.
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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 won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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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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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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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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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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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If they think that there’s a lot of racism going on then there’s another Hip Hop artist who’s gonna come out and speak their mind.
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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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