When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAA 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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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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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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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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 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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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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That’s definitely my goal, and always has been through the Universal Zulu Nation, is to show that music breaks down all that foolishness and can bring all types of people together, especially when you can mix it and shape it.
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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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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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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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