I’m as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAThe only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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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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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 Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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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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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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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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