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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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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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’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.
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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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.
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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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