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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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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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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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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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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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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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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 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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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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