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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAI knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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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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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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 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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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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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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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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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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Overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
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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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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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