A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don’t know what they’re talking about. They just think of the rappers.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAA 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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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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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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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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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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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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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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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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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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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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