Hip-hop has different elements dealing with music, rap, graffiti art, b-boys (what you call break boys)… and also dealing with culture, and a whole movement dealing with wisdom and understanding, as well as peace unity and fun.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAThe only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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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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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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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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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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