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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAWhen Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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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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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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.
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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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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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