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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAThere 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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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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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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 gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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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I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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If they think that there’s a lot of racism going on then there’s another Hip Hop artist who’s gonna come out and speak their mind.
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