I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAWell, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what’s around them.
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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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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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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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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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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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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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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It 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 knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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