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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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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
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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Ask Before Black Blue Brown Called Caught Fighting Name Red White
I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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Always Become Galactic Union Universal
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 rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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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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Anything Dance House Music People Techno Think
When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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All Electro Funk Out Planet Record Rock
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
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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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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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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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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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