I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAI brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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 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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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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Don’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?
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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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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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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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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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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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