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November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.

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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 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’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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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.
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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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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.
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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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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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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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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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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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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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