When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAI am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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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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I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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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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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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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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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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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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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