I’m as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAANovember is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.
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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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Hip-hop has different elements dealing with music, rap, graffiti art, b-boys (what you call break boys)… and also dealing with culture, and a whole movement dealing with wisdom and understanding, as well as peace unity and fun.
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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.
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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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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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There’s a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase.
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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 always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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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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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