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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAThe only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
More Afrika Bambaataa Quotes
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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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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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 brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these 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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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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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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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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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.
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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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Overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
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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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