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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAADon’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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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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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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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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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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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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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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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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