“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.”

The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.

I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.

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.

When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.

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.

All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.

The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.

Hip Hop has introduced us to a lot of genres that we probably wouldn’t even listen to in our own homes from our parents.

Sawed off shotgun, hand on the pump Left hand on a forty, puffin’ on a blunt Pumped my shotgun, niggas didn’t jump… Lala la la lala la laaaa

There’s certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don’t pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what’s happening in hip-hop – it’s subconscious.

I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They’re here to criticize all of us. That’s just how it is. We as MC’s criticize each other. That’s the nature of hip-hop.

How you know where I’m at when you haven’t been where I’ve been? Understand where I’m coming from?

As far as hip-hop is concerned, I’m no expert and rarely think consciously about how I “represent” hip-hop.

Real slow hits from the bong… Make me feel like Cheech, And I’m kickin’ it with Chong.

Stillmatic’ is the rebirth of ‘Illmatic,’ my first debut album to come out in 1994. ‘Stillmatic’ is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.