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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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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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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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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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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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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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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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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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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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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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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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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