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.
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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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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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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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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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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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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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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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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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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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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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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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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