Don’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAWe 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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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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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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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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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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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 only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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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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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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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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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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