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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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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
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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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 brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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