I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAI knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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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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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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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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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk 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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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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It 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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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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