It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAI don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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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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’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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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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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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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 treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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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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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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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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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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Don’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?
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