It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that’s happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAHip-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 you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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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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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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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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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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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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