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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAI am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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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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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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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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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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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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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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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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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