You put music in categories because you need to define a sound, but when you don’t play it on your so-called radio stations that claim to be R&B or jazz or whatever.
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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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 knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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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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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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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 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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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 brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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