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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAI knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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 knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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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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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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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 gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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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.
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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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I’d like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go.
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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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.
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