When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAI knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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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November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.
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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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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I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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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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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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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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