The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAI’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.
More Afrika Bambaataa Quotes
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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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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 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 always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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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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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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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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’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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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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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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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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