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I’d like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go.

Afrika Bambaataa

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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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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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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Powers that be can’t stay in control if you have everybody in love and in tune with each other and with the planet, and in tune with the electrons and the dark matter that’s moving at the speed of light.
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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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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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I’d like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go.
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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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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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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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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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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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