Hip-hop has different elements dealing with music, rap, graffiti art, b-boys (what you call break boys)… and also dealing with culture, and a whole movement dealing with wisdom and understanding, as well as peace unity and fun.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAWhen 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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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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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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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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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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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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these 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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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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