You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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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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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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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 always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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.
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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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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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