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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAIt ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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 always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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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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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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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these 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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Hip-hop has crossed many boundaries and racial barriers, broken them down for people to come together, to listen to the music or come out of their own social ills in each of the countries that it has went to.
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Don’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?
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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 am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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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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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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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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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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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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