You put music in categories because you need to define a sound, but when you don’t play it on your so-called radio stations that claim to be R&B or jazz or whatever.
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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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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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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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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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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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