Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There’s the rap which is a form of hip hop culture.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAIf 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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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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.
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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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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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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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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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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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 won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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