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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAHip-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 they think that there’s a lot of racism going on then there’s another Hip Hop artist who’s gonna come out and speak their mind.
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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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 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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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 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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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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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 hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There’s the rap which is a form of hip hop culture.
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