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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAThat won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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Thanks to my traveling, and keeping up from place to place, and pushing our ideology – peace, love, unity, and having fun – it has worked.
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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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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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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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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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’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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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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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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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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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