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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAWhen Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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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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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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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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 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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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