I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAI am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAWe 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.
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.
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAOvercoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAADon’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAHip-hop has crossed many boundaries and racial barriers, broken them down for people to come together, to listen to the music or come out of their own social ills in each of the countries that it has went to.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAWhen Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAWe also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAYou treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAHow 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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAYou 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 BAMBAATAAWell hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There’s the rap which is a form of hip hop culture.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAWell, 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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAAll 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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAWhen you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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