A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don’t know what they’re talking about. They just think of the rappers.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAHow you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.
More Afrika Bambaataa Quotes
-
-
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
Don’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that’s happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA -
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA