I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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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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 always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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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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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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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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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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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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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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