Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what’s around them.
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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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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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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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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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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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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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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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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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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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