You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.
Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.
My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.
A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music.
American music culture is black culture.
If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.
What's really good is African drum music.