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 BAMBAATAAThanks 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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don’t know what they’re talking about. They just think of the rappers.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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Hip-hop has different elements dealing with music, rap, graffiti art, b-boys (what you call break boys)… and also dealing with culture, and a whole movement dealing with wisdom and understanding, as well as peace unity and fun.
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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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That’s the beauty of sampling: taking the old sound and recreating it and making something new, or bringing back the old sounds, mixed with some heavy grooves and beats, so people can remember. “Oh, I remember that, back in the day.”
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Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There’s the rap which is a form of hip hop culture.
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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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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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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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’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.
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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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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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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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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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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