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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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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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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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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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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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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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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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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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