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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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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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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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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There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.
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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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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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Hip-hop has crossed many boundaries and racial barriers, broken them down for people to come together, to listen to the music or come out of their own social ills in each of the countries that it has went to.
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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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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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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.
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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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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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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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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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