I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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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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November 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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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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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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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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 gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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