All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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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 treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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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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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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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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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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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