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Universal Zulu Nation Calls Emergency Meeting to Recapture Hip-Hop

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The Supreme World Council of the Universal Zulu Nation will hold an emergency meeting Feb. 22 to address what the group feels is an imbalance of Hip-Hop played on radio and TV stations.

Expected to appear at the meeting to support the Universal Zulu Nation and founder Afrika Bambataa include Hip-Hop activists Kevin Powell, Davey D, Rosa Clemente and April Silver; rapper KRS-One; the Temple of Hip-Hop, educator and filmmaker Martha Diaz; Public Enemy frontman Chuck D; photographer Ernie Paniccioli; Rock Steady Crew member Crazy Legs.

According to representatives for the Universal Zulu Nation, Bambaataa hopes steps will be taken to bring consciousness back to Hip-Hop.

"We are not saying to stop playing what you are playing on the air or showing on the TV, but to have balance and play it all, old-school to new-school to be true school," representatives for Bambaataa said in a statement.

The group hopes a plan of action will be devised to curtail "death and destruction playing on radio and TV music video shows."

The coalition of artists and activists hope to stop being scared to expose "record labels, radio stations, TV Hip-Hop shows or whatever shows that show us in a BS vision of just being pimps, playas, gangsters and hoes, straight up niggers, wiggers or any other derogatory words that they use and we use to call ourselves."

The emergency meeting starts at 6 p.m. at the National Black Theater, 125th Street and Fifth Ave. in New York City.

The Universal Zulu Nation was formed in the 1970's by Africa Bambaataa.

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Peace and Bless,
A message from the Amun Ra of Hip Hop Culture
Ahki Afrika Bambaataa ,

IN THE NAME OF AMEN RA

THE 5TH ELEMENT OF HIP HOP
KNOWLEDGE, CULTURE, OVERSTANDING

TIME TO FIGHT ALL RADIO STATIONS WHO CLAIM HIP HOP BUT DO NOT PLAY HIP HOP IN A BALANCE. PLAY OLD SCHOOL WITH NEW SCHOOL TO KEEP A BALANCE WITH TRUE SCHOOL...TIME TO FIGHT ALL THESE DAMN STATIONS WHO ARE JUST PLAYING ONE STYLE OF RAP AND TO FIGHT THESE BS TV VIDEO SHOWS THAT ONLY PLAY RAP VIDEOS OF DISRESPECT TO WOMAN OR JUST SHOW NEGATIVE VIDEOS AND NOT PLAY ALL VIDEOS IN A BALANCE FROM PAST TO THE PRESENT. BRING THE SPIRIT OF MAAT TO HIP HOP RADIO AND TV SHOWS CONSCIOUSNESS AND FUN IN HIP HOP.

THE FIGHT FOR 2006 IS ON TO SAVE HIP HOP CULTURE, TIME TO RAISE THE ARMY OF PEOPLE WHO WILL PUT THE POWER OF THE SUPREME FORCE ON THESE SATANIST BASTARDS, WHO ARE TRYING TO CONTROL THE MINDS OF THE HIP HOP WORLD NATION. ALL WHO STAND ON THE SIDE OF THE SUPREME FORCE, WHO IS CALLED BY MANY NAMES, STOP BEING SCARED, STAND UP AND RAISE YOUR VOICE AND THEN GET TO WORK TO EXPOSE THESE DAMN RECORD LABELS, RADIO STATIONS,TV HIP HOP SHOWS OR WHATEVER SHOWS THAT SHOWS US IN A BS VISION OF JUST BEING PIMPS, PLAYAS , GANGSTERS AND HOES, STRAIGHT UP NIGGERS, WIGGERS, OR ANYOTHER DEROGATORY WORDS THAT THEY USE AND WE USE TO CALL OURSELVES.

WE ARE ASKING ALL AHKIS/BROTHERS AND MALIKAS/SISTERS OF ALL SO CALLED RACES (THE HUMAN RACE) ALL OVER THE WORLD,TO JOIN ------>
* BROTHER AFRIKA BAMBAATAA AND THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION

* BROTHER DAVEY D

* TOOLS OF WAR

* THE R.E.A.C.H. ORGANIZATION

* SISTER ROSA CLEMENTE

* KEVIN POWELL

* SISTER APRIL SILVER

* ERNIE PANICCIOLI

* CRAZY LEGS

* KRS ONE AND THE TEMPLE OF HIP HOP

* TONY TONE

* ADISA

* NTELEK & THE NU-WOP SOLDIERS

* MARTHA DIAZ

* CHUCK D

* PROFESSOR X

* FABEL

* THE UNIVERSAL FEDERATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HIP HOP CULTURE

AND MANY MORE GRASS ROOTS ORGANIZATIONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD TO BRING THE POWER OF GODS AND GODDESSES, THE SUPREME FORCE ON ALL THESE JIVE ASS SO CALLED HIP HOP RADIO STATION TO CHANGE UP OR BACK TO HELL YOU GO.

IT IS TIME TO CAUSE A WORLD MOVEMENT. STOP BEING SCARED AND CALL ON THE SPIRITS OF THE ANCESTORS, THE LORD OF ALL THE WORLDS AND GET TO WORK. RAISE CONSCIOUSNESS BACK IN HIP HOP CULTURE. WE ARE NOT SAYING TO STOP PLAYING WHAT YOUR ARE PLAYING ON THE AIR OR SHOWING ON THE TV BUT TO HAVE BALANCE AND PLAY IT ALL, OLD SCHOOL TO NEW SCHOOL TO BE TRUE SCHOOL....

WE NEED THE ARMY OF GODS AND GODDESSES TO LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SPEAK BUT TO LIFT EVERY ARM AND SWING MEANING PUT FIRE TO THESE DEMONS ON THESE STATIONS WHO WILL BRING THE CULTURE OF HIP HOP OVER TO THE DEVIL. IF YOUR ARE WITH SAVING HIP HOP CULTURE THEN FIGHT LIKE GODS OF HEAVEN AND SEND THEM DEMONS BACK TO HELL.

IN THE SPIRIT OF THE MILLION MORE MARCH, MILLION MAN MARCH, MILLION WOMAN MARCH, MILLION YOUTH MARCH, THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION, THE ROCK STEADY CREW, ALL THE B-BOYS AND GIRLS,TRUE HIP HOP CULTURE HEADS THROUGHOUT PLANET EARTH JOIN AN ORGANIZATION OR GET WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE ABOUT MOVEMENT TO TAKE OUR CULTURE BACK AND SAVE OUR YOUTH ALL OVER THE WORLD AND TO SAVE YOUR MIND AND YOUR SOUL.

PLACE: NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE
125TH STREET AND FIFTH AVE
NEW YORK CITY

DATE:FEB.22,2006

TIME: 6PM SHARP

IF YOUR JUST STAND BY THE SIDE AND JUST COMPLAINE,BUT DO NOT GET UP AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE SITUATION,THEN YOU ALL DESERVED WHAT YOU GET.

"ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE"

BROTHER AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

THE AMEN RA OF UNIVERSAL HIP HOP CULTURE
UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION

Yep..

I'm all for it..

But what the fuck exactly are they gonna do? I dont see record companies or radio stations bowing to their demands and theres no cause for a legal case over the 'mis-representation' of hip hop...

Hip hop I believe needs more positive role models... And instead of going head first at the business side of rap full of suits that dont really care.. They need to target the younger hip hop artists that dont know any better...

ANYONE who is getting any sort of media attention for hip hop needs to realise they have a HUGE responsibility to represent it correctly or fall the fuck back...

Discuss....

(And BTW-- If anyones going to this, make sure to tell us how it went down)

ridiculous

who defines hip hop?

who owns hip hop?

who is to say what's real hip hop or not?

Hypocrites

Tell them to play Gay Rappers. They are as much hip hop as anything else.

oh the irony is killin em

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Originally Posted by Tha Q.

What are you braindead?

You DO know who Afrika Bombaataa is........right?

If anyone has the cred to say whats real hip hop, I'm PRETTY FUCKEN SURE one of the very first rappers whos been highly respected in the hip hop scene from THE VERY BEGINNING would know buddy...

Damn.. Be thankful this site isnt full of actual knowledgable hip hop heads.. You jus made a real dick of yourself...

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Originally Posted by Nostradamus

you know...i was actually gonna jump in and say pretty much the exact same shit to Q.....

but i didnt.....cause i couldnt believe he was that ignorant...

but thanks for saying it....

Q.....die

LMAO @ not knowin who Afrika Bambaataa be.

Also if you read, they arent saying what hiphop is, they want more "conscious" hiphop being played to the mass. Which i dont think any people can complain with.

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Originally Posted by Nostradamus

yeh he pretty much did make a dick of him self in my opinion...

they tryna start a revolution in contemporary hip hop...so Q fall back if u ain't with it

Yeah I agree with that shit definetly. It's an ill idea. But the only true school is my shit. And maybe infinite. Good balance and shit.

Its about time..

:evilgrin:

Rofl @ emergency meeting. How gay.

Ill..

Somebody from New York best be going..

We need information..

I'll go battle Afrika Bambataa for supremecy.

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Originally Posted by 9th

I'll go battle Afrika Bambataa for supremecy.

Rofl, wtf. Sweet.

Q had a point there, the bit at the end was pretty self centered, but who is to say what can and cant be played. Notice most people there are considered 'old school' and that one of the first things it says is mixing the old school, with the new school.

My Opinion; Publicity Stunt.

In my eyes they'r no better than hip hop artists today for doin this.

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Originally Posted by distilled

Exactly...They claim they want "real" hip hop played. Well, what's more "real" than people rapping about their lives? There is an ENTIRE GAY HIP HOP movement underground. But, how many of those tracks do you hear being bumped on the radio?

This is ridiculous.

Hypocrites

Gay rappers love the culture as much as str8 rappers, but they aren't included?

I bet all these people making all this noise wouldn't be so enthusiastic of Gay Rappers did the same shit.

And to Nos's drunk ass, I know who A. Bam is.

TIME TO FIGHT ALL RADIO STATIONS WHO CLAIM HIP HOP BUT DO NOT PLAY HIP HOP IN A BALANCE. PLAY OLD SCHOOL WITH NEW SCHOOL TO KEEP A BALANCE WITH TRUE SCHOOL...TIME TO FIGHT ALL THESE DAMN STATIONS WHO ARE JUST PLAYING ONE STYLE OF RAP AND TO FIGHT

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Other forms of rap:

Christian
Homo hop
Conscious

Yea...play ALL OF THOSE IN BALANCE
Like I said before, who is HE or anyone to determine which forms make it into that so-called "balance"

RIDICULOUS

pssf

That'll be the day.

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Originally Posted by PIMPIN aint easy

LMFAO HOMO HOP LOL

BUT DO NOT PLAY HIP HOP IN A BALANCE. PLAY OLD SCHOOL WITH NEW SCHOOL TO KEEP A BALANCE WITH TRUE SCHOOL...TIME TO FIGHT ALL THESE DAMN STATIONS WHO ARE JUST PLAYING ONE STYLE OF RAP

ok read that again wat is the last line fight hem that are not pplayin one style of rap he aint sayin elts fight the stations that aint playin the 2 kinds
he wa jus sayin play hip hop in balance, play old skoo wit new skoo, it was like he was sayin for exampple play old wit new skoo so u mixin shit up

Again, who is he to say "play old school" with "new school"? Why isn't he sayin, "Play ALL types of rap". Gay rappers have an entire underground culture that's being overlooked. There are mad Christian rappers. I'm sure there are many other forms of rap that are underground that people would genuinely enjoy if given the opportunity to hear them.

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Originally Posted by PIMPIN aint easy

FFS MAAN I ANSWERED THAT IN MY LAST POST READ IT AGAIN HE AINT SAYIN JUS PLAY THOSE 3 KINDS HE SAYIN PLAY A VARIETY OF HIP-HOP, IS A VARIETY 2 KINDS???

Well...I can't wait to see this variety.

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African bombata IS kinda acting like some GOD. I mean shit, he's acting like we're in some sort of all ou war. Instead of waiting for hip hop to change again he's just bringing us back to how we was before. Wow, how great.

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Originally Posted by ♣♣♣♣

I agree. He's not speaking for me. He's speaking for himself as far as I'm concerned. The only thing that raised my eyebrow was when he said, "Play old school rap."

pssf

How about..."Play A wide variety of rap"

A Bam. just Happens to be about as OLD SCHOOL as you can get.