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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.

Afrika Bambaataa

All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Each Fighting Illusion Keep Name Other Using
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Act Colorless Culture Hip Hop Music White Yellow
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Celebration Giving History Month November People Political Together
I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Beat Bought Break Hear Much Sound
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Hand Hiding Keeping Media Music Other Putting Sound Stick Throwing
You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Back Come Greatness People Treat
Don’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Ask Before Black Blue Brown Called Caught Fighting Name Red White
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Barries Boundaries Country Crossed Fun Listen People Together
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Anything Dance House Music People Techno Think
I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Calypso Care Classical Dance Funk Music Reggae Salsa
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Art Boy Call Dealing Different Element Fun Music Rap
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.”
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Back Beauty Bringing Day MIxed Old Remember Sampling Something Recreating Sound Taking
We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Coast East Hip Hop Music Sound Understand Universe West
A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don’t know what they’re talking about. They just think of the rappers.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Hip Hop Music Rapper Talking Thinking
We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Between Down East Foolishness Hip Hop Slow Trying West
That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Basically Interest Microchip Ready Well

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