Thanks to my traveling, and keeping up from place to place, and pushing our ideology – peace, love, unity, and having fun – it has worked.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAThat’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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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 these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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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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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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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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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 knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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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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