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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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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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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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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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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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I’m as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.
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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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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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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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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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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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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