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.
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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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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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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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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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 these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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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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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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I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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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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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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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