Afrika Bambaataa Quotes

A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don’t know what they’re talking about. They just think of the rappers.

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

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.

Hip-hop has crossed many boundaries and racial barriers, broken them down for people to come together, to listen to the music or come out of their own social ills in each of the countries that it has went to.

Overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.

We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.

Don’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?

Thanks to my traveling, and keeping up from place to place, and pushing our ideology – peace, love, unity, and having fun – it has worked.

I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.