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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAHip-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’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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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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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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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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 don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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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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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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