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.
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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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 brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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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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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 also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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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I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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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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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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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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