Don’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAWe 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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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.
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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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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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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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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Hip-hop has different elements dealing with music, rap, graffiti art, b-boys (what you call break boys)… and also dealing with culture, and a whole movement dealing with wisdom and understanding, as well as peace unity and fun.
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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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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