All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAWhen you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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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 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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Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what’s around them.
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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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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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I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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That’s definitely my goal, and always has been through the Universal Zulu Nation, is to show that music breaks down all that foolishness and can bring all types of people together, especially when you can mix it and shape it.
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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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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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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