The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAIt 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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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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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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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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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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