I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAI knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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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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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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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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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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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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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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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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