The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAA 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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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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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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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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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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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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.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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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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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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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