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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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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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Barries Boundaries Country Crossed Fun Listen People Together
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 treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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Back Come Greatness People Treat
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 knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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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 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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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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If they think that there’s a lot of racism going on then there’s another Hip Hop artist who’s gonna come out and speak their mind.
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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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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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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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Fun Ideology Keeping Love Peace Place Pushing Thank Traveling Unity Worked
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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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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