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 BAMBAATAAThat’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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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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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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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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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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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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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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 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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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.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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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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