A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don’t know what they’re talking about. They just think of the rappers.
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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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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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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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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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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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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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 am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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