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
Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There’s the rap which is a form of hip hop culture.
More Afrika Bambaataa Quotes
-
-
-
-
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 BAMBAATAA -
Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There’s the rap which is a form of hip hop culture.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
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 -
-
The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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 -
Don’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
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 BAMBAATAA -
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA