All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAThe Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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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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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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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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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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I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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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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Powers that be can’t stay in control if you have everybody in love and in tune with each other and with the planet, and in tune with the electrons and the dark matter that’s moving at the speed of light.
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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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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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Well, 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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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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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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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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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