All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAI knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
More Afrika Bambaataa Quotes
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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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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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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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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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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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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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