Overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
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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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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these 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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How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.
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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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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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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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Hip-hop has different elements dealing with music, rap, graffiti art, b-boys (what you call break boys)… and also dealing with culture, and a whole movement dealing with wisdom and understanding, as well as peace unity and fun.
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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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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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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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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