Overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAAll these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
More Afrika Bambaataa Quotes
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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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You put music in categories because you need to define a sound, but when you don’t play it on your so-called radio stations that claim to be R&B or jazz or whatever.
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Hip-hop has crossed many boundaries and racial barriers, broken them down for people to come together, to listen to the music or come out of their own social ills in each of the countries that it has went to.
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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’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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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