When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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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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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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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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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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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