We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAIf 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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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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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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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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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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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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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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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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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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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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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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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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