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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAI don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.
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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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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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I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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Powers that be can’t stay in control if you have everybody in love and in tune with each other and with the planet, and in tune with the electrons and the dark matter that’s moving at the speed of light.
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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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I’d like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go.
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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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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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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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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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