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 BAMBAATAAThe only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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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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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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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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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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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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All 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.
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You 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.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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