Don’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAThere 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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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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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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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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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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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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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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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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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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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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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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I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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