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If 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.

Afrika Bambaataa

We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let’s get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from.
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Ego Foolishness Hand Home Leave Media Sit Understanding
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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Attention Hip Hop Like People Political Science
That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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Basically Interest Microchip Ready Well
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
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
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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Brought Everybody Funky Jumping Over People Phrase Record Rock Started Time
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
You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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Back Come Greatness People Treat
Thanks to my traveling, and keeping up from place to place, and pushing our ideology – peace, love, unity, and having fun – it has worked.
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Fun Ideology Keeping Love Peace Place Pushing Thank Traveling Unity Worked
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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Celebration Giving History Month November People Political Together
We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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Coast East Hip Hop Music Sound Understand Universe West
I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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Calypso Care Classical Dance Funk Music Reggae Salsa
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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Basically Culture Dancing Movement Rap White
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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Artist Business Government Hip Hop Mind Nervous People Speak
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
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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