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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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Joke Lose Vinyl
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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Fun Ideology Keeping Love Peace Place Pushing Thank Traveling Unity Worked
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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Basically Culture Dancing Movement Rap White
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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Act Colorless Culture Hip Hop Music White Yellow
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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Back Beauty Bringing Day MIxed Old Remember Sampling Something Recreating Sound Taking
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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Ask Before Black Blue Brown Called Caught Fighting Name Red White
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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Art Boy Call Dealing Different Element Fun Music Rap
I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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Break Up DJ Eventually Music Play Record Sound Would
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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Hand Hiding Keeping Media Music Other Putting Sound Stick Throwing
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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Call Fact Faith God Mathematics Negative Overcoming Positive Religious Science Thought Wonder
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.
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Barries Boundaries Country Crossed Fun Listen People Together
The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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Earth Human Living Mother Only Planet Thing Want
I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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Beat Bought Break Hear Much Sound
You put music in categories because you need to define a sound, but when you don’t play it on your so-called radio stations that claim to be R&B or jazz or whatever.
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Categories Define House Need People Sound Thinking
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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Another Artist Hip Hop Mind Music Racism Sound Speak Think
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.
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Celebration Giving History Month November People Political Together

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