It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAAll these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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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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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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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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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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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 brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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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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A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don’t know what they’re talking about. They just think of the rappers.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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