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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAI brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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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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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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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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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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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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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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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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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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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