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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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That’s definitely my goal, and always has been through the Universal Zulu Nation, is to show that music breaks down all that foolishness and can bring all types of people together, especially when you can mix it and shape it.
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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 also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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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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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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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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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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 knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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