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Afrika Bambaataa

It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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Joke Lose Vinyl
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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Artist Business Government Hip Hop Mind Nervous People Speak
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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Hand Hiding Keeping Media Music Other Putting Sound Stick Throwing
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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Always Been Break Down Especially Foolishness Goal Mix Music Nation People Shape Show Through Together Universal
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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Control Dark Electron Everybody Love Moving Other Planet Power Speed Tune
I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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Break Up DJ Eventually Music Play Record Sound Would
Overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
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Call Fact Faith God Mathematics Negative Overcoming Positive Religious Science Thought Wonder
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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Barries Boundaries Country Crossed Fun Listen People Together
All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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Each Fighting Illusion Keep Name Other Using
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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Art Boy Call Dealing Different Element Fun Music Rap
The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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Earth Human Living Mother Only Planet Thing Want
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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Brought Everybody Funky Jumping Over People Phrase Record Rock Started Time
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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Hip Hop Music Rapper Talking Thinking
We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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Between Down East Foolishness Hip Hop Slow Trying West
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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Back Beauty Bringing Day MIxed Old Remember Sampling Something Recreating Sound Taking
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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Artist Going Politics Racism Something Thinking Today Wrong

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