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.
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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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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 am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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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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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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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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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Powers that be can’t stay in control if you have everybody in love and in tune with each other and with the planet, and in tune with the electrons and the dark matter that’s moving at the speed of light.
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