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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAIt 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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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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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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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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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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’d like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go.
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