“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.”

It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that’s happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community.

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.

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.

It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.

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.

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.

A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don’t know what they’re talking about. They just think of the rappers.

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

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.

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.

Overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.

We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

Don’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?

I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.

Thanks to my traveling, and keeping up from place to place, and pushing our ideology – peace, love, unity, and having fun – it has worked.

I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.