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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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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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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Thanks 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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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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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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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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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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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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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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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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