We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAIf 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 brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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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When you talk about hip-hop, you’re talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.
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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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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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