All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAYou 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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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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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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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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’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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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