It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAThat won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
More Afrika Bambaataa Quotes
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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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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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Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.
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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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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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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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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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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.
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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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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