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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAAll 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.
More Afrika Bambaataa Quotes
-
-
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that’s happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
Powers that be can’t stay in control if you have everybody in love and in tune with each other and with the planet, and in tune with the electrons and the dark matter that’s moving at the speed of light.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
I’d like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA