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 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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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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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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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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Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what’s around them.
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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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How 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.
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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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I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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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It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that’s happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community.
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