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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAWell, 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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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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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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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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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let’s get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from.
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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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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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