When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAThanks 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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I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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 Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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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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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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