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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAThere 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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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.
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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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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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