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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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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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Brought Everybody Funky Jumping Over People Phrase Record Rock Started Time
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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Lake Moon Old Star Tree Young
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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Act Colorless Culture Hip Hop Music White Yellow
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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Hip Hop Music Rapper Talking Thinking
When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap Talk Understand
I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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Always Become Galactic Union Universal
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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Fun Ideology Keeping Love Peace Place Pushing Thank Traveling Unity Worked
It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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Joke Lose Vinyl
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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Categories Define House Need People Sound Thinking
You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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Back Come Greatness People Treat
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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Celebration Giving History Month November People Political Together
Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what’s around them.
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Artist Business Government Hip Hop Mind Nervous People Speak
That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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Basically Interest Microchip Ready Well
I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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Calypso Care Classical Dance Funk Music Reggae Salsa
We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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Coast East Hip Hop Music Sound Understand Universe West
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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Artist Going Politics Racism Something Thinking Today Wrong

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