I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAYou treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
More Afrika Bambaataa Quotes
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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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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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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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Thanks to my traveling, and keeping up from place to place, and pushing our ideology – peace, love, unity, and having fun – it has worked.
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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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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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If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it.
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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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How 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.
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Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.
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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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.
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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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That’s the beauty of sampling: taking the old sound and recreating it and making something new, or bringing back the old sounds, mixed with some heavy grooves and beats, so people can remember. “Oh, I remember that, back in the day.”
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