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 Read Quote
I like Akon, I like some of Lil Wayne when he uses that funky voice. Anything progressive. Afrika Bambaataa Read Quote
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 Read Quote
A lot of times you can lose the MP3s – it’s a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things back up. You gotta back up, back up, back up. Afrika Bambaataa Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
What worries me are these so-called radio stations with program directors who don’t play all the different flavors of hip-hop. They should play the old with the new, 24/7, 365 days a year. A lot of these program directors are just jiving around and not playing all the good music for the people. Afrika Bambaataa Read Quote
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 Read Quote
As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about. Afrika Bambaataa Read Quote
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 Read Quote
