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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

Afrika Bambaataa

That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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Basically Interest Microchip Ready Well
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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Anything Dance House Music People Techno Think
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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Artist Going Politics Racism Something Thinking Today Wrong
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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Back Beauty Bringing Day MIxed Old Remember Sampling Something Recreating Sound Taking
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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Act Colorless Culture Hip Hop Music White Yellow
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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Brought Everybody Funky Jumping Over People Phrase Record Rock Started Time
It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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Joke Lose Vinyl
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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Art Boy Call Dealing Different Element Fun Music Rap
When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap Talk Understand
That’s definitely my goal, and always has been through the Universal Zulu Nation, is to show that music breaks down all that foolishness and can bring all types of people together, especially when you can mix it and shape it.
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Always Been Break Down Especially Foolishness Goal Mix Music Nation People Shape Show Through Together Universal
It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that’s happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community.
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Breakdancing Community Dancing Freestyle Happening Type White
All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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Each Fighting Illusion Keep Name Other Using
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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Hip Hop Music Rapper Talking Thinking
We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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Coast East Hip Hop Music Sound Understand Universe West
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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Equality Freedom Fun Justice Peace Understanding Unity Universal
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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Lake Moon Old Star Tree Young

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