Afrika Bambaataa famous 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. 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.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Thinking #Rapper #Talking

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

#Yellow #White #Hip Hop

Don't get caught up on 'I'm brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.' You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492? All these names we're using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Fighting #White #Blue

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. 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.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Home #Media #Hands

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

#Fun #Justice #Understanding

November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#People #Giving #Political

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Hip Hop #Trying #Hips

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Break Up #Sound #Records

Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Mean #People #Hip Hop

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

#Mother #Earth #Want

I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Stars #Moon #Lakes

Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Rocks #Records #Bass

You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#People #Hip Hop #Black

They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Easter #Color #People

HIP-HOP HAS DIFFERENT ELEMENTS DEALING WITH MUSIC, RAP, GRAFFITI ART, B-BOYS (WHAT YOU CALL BREAK BOYS)... AND ALSO DEALING WITH CULTURE, AND A WHOLE MOVEMENT DEALING WITH WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING, AS WELL AS PEACE UNITY AND FUN.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Art #Fun #Rap

Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow are going to blow your funky mind!
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Cutting #Blow #Mind

I like Akon, I like some of Lil Wayne when he uses that funky voice. Anything progressive.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Voice #Use #Progressive

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

#America #Giving #Car

People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in their lives.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Rapper #People #Hip Hop

It ain't no joke when you lose your vinyl.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Vinyl #Jokes

You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Greatness #People #Treats

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. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#People #Hip Hop #Political

I'm fanatical about movies: African, European, Viking, Roman. I got into witchcraft and magic from watching 'Bewitched' and 'The Wizard of Oz,' which shows in some of my outfits. I dress to reflect the whole spectrum of the universe.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Magic #Dresses #Wizards

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. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Artist #Thinking #Racism

Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#New York #Doctors #Sight

I don't care if it's rap, metal, whatever. You still should play Beatles records mixed with Limp Bizkit mixed with Foghat mixed with Creedence Clearwater Revival, stuff like that.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Rap #Play #Stuff

Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Hip Hop #Hips #United States

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Hip Hop #Sound #Different

They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Disrespect #Black #Criminals

Say planet rock, it's a sure shot.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Rocks #Outer Space #Shots

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

#Rap #Rocks #House

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

#Rap #Hip Hop #Culture

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

#Artist #Government #People

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... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Jumping #Rocks #People

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

#Brother #Hip Hop #Hips