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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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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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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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That’s definitely my goal, and always has been through the Universal Zulu Nation, is to show that music breaks down all that foolishness and can bring all types of people together, especially when you can mix it and shape it.
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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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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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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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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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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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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’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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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 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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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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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