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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] The movement wasn't how most people knew about Africa Bambaata. We are talking about Music and as far as the Music goes his hits were Looking for the Perfect Beat, Planet Rock and so forth. Again, pretty much standard fare from the hip hop era. His "conscious" efforts were collaborations with James Brown and on unity and the collaborations with mainstream artists on "Sun city". His Zulu Nation Movement was primarily in settling the beefs with gangs in New York through block parties and DJing, which mostly is something local to New York. Planet Rock, Perfect Beat and so forth are the main tracks most people know about and are not particularly "concscious". To me Public Enemy and KRS are the first true conscious acts. Early pre synthesizer Zulu Nation.... nothing particular conscious aside from saying "Zulu Nation". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWSRyztwV_E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjlO2rW6J_I&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XfpU4sZe8c&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL But don't get me wrong either, at that period of time hearing rap on the radio was a big deal and hearing people identifying with Africa and warriors like the Zulu was an even bigger deal. So that by itself had a tremendous impact by itself. Of course his efforts at promoting unity and identifying with Africa as well as being an early promoter of hip hop acts, beats and DJing eventually set the stage for Public Enemy and KRS who came in the late 80s. But that was the late 80s and I was going to college at that point. Early hip hop started in Grade school for me so that was ancient history by that time and things were very different. Early hip hop was all fun and silly stuff (perfect example rappers delight) whereas by the time I got to college (and a lot of other black folks) things were more serious and hence Public Enemy and KRS were fitting to the times. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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