Thanks to my traveling, and keeping up from place to place, and pushing our ideology – peace, love, unity, and having fun – it has worked.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAYou 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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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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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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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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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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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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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There’s a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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