It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAI always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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.
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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.
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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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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.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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Overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There’s the rap which is a form of hip hop culture.
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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.
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Hip-hop has crossed many boundaries and racial barriers, broken them down for people to come together, to listen to the music or come out of their own social ills in each of the countries that it has went to.
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I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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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.
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That’s definitely my goal, and always has been through the Universal Zulu Nation, is to show that music breaks down all that foolishness and can bring all types of people together, especially when you can mix it and shape it.
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