We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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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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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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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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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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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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 brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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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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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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