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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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Back Beauty Bringing Day MIxed Old Remember Sampling Something Recreating Sound Taking
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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Categories Define House Need People Sound Thinking
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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Anything Dance House Music People Techno Think
The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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Earth Human Living Mother Only Planet Thing Want
You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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Back Come Greatness People Treat
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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Art Boy Call Dealing Different Element Fun Music Rap
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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Conspiracy Hijacked Hip Hop Luciferian Mean People
I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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Beat Bought Break Hear Much Sound
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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Call Fact Faith God Mathematics Negative Overcoming Positive Religious Science Thought Wonder
When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap Talk Understand
All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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Each Fighting Illusion Keep Name Other Using
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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Equality Freedom Fun Justice Peace Understanding Unity Universal
We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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Between Down East Foolishness Hip Hop Slow Trying West
I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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Always Become Galactic Union Universal
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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Hip Hop Music Rapper Talking Thinking
I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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Break Up DJ Eventually Music Play Record Sound Would

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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