A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don’t know what they’re talking about. They just think of the rappers.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAHow 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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Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There’s the rap which is a form of hip hop culture.
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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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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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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I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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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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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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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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’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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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.
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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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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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