I’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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAThere’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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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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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 always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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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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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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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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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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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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.
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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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