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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.

~Afrika Bambaataa

Topics: Acknowledge Allah Call Equality Facts Faith Freedom Fun God Having Having Fun Him Jah Jehovah Justice Love Mathematics Nation Negative Overcoming Peace Positive Science Stands Through Understanding Unity Universal Whether Wisdom Wonders Work

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

~Afrika Bambaataa

Topics: Anything Care Classical Dance Dance Music Funk House Just Music People Reggae Techno Think You

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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.

~Afrika Bambaataa

Topics: Awaken Earth Humans Living Mother Mother Earth Only Planet The Only Thing Thing Want

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Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate type of hip hop. They decided to tell everybody 'Well, this is what hip hop is,' instead of coming back to the pioneers and getting the true definition of what hip hop is and what it was and what we been pushing for all these years.

~Afrika Bambaataa

Topics: Back Been Coming Corporate Decided Definition Down Everybody Evil Flipped Getting Hip Hip Hop Hop Instead Legacy Line Pioneers Pushing Somewhere Stole Tell True Type Well Years

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You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community.

~Afrika Bambaataa

Topics: America Anybody Back Buy Car Castles Community Give Glad Got Hip-Hop Houses How Just Making Making Money Materialism Mind Money Nothing Picked Some Them Themselves Up Want You Your

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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.

~Afrika Bambaataa

Topics: Act Black Brown Culture Hip Hip Hop Hop How Look Made Music Part Red Talk Walk White Yellow You

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House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop.

~Afrika Bambaataa

Topics: Along Culture Disco Hip-Hop House Jay-Z Part Playing Rap Rock Why You

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There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence.

~Afrika Bambaataa

Topics: Available Behind Certain Certain Things Crime Make Much People Say Scenes Secret They Say Things Violence Who Why You

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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.

~Afrika Bambaataa

Topics: About Around Artists Because Big Big Business Business Feel Government Hip Hip Hop Hop Know Lot Minds Nervous People Reflect See Speak Talk Them Well Within

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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

~Afrika Bambaataa

Topics: About Culture Hip-Hop Part Rap Talk Understand You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: April 10th, 1960

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