I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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 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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If they think that there’s a lot of racism going on then there’s another Hip Hop artist who’s gonna come out and speak their mind.
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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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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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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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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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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