When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAWell 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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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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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 knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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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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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.
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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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November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.
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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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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