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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAIt 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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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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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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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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 knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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