When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAThanks to my traveling, and keeping up from place to place, and pushing our ideology – peace, love, unity, and having fun – it has worked.
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If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it.
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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 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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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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How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.
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That’s the beauty of sampling: taking the old sound and recreating it and making something new, or bringing back the old sounds, mixed with some heavy grooves and beats, so people can remember. “Oh, I remember that, back in the day.”
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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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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If they think that there’s a lot of racism going on then there’s another Hip Hop artist who’s gonna come out and speak their mind.
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Hip-hop has different elements dealing with music, rap, graffiti art, b-boys (what you call break boys)… and also dealing with culture, and a whole movement dealing with wisdom and understanding, as well as peace unity and fun.
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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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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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A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don’t know what they’re talking about. They just think of the rappers.
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Don’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?
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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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You put music in categories because you need to define a sound, but when you don’t play it on your so-called radio stations that claim to be R&B or jazz or whatever.
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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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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It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that’s happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community.
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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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Thanks to my traveling, and keeping up from place to place, and pushing our ideology – peace, love, unity, and having fun – it has worked.
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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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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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We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let’s get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from.
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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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