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 BAMBAATAAIf 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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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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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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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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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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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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 Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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