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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAThat’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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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these 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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.
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It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that’s happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community.
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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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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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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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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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