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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.

Afrika Bambaataa

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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Ego Foolishness Hand Home Leave Media Sit Understanding
I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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Beat Bought Break Hear Much Sound
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
The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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Earth Human Living Mother Only Planet Thing Want
It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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Joke Lose Vinyl
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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Lake Moon Old Star Tree Young
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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Back Beauty Bringing Day MIxed Old Remember Sampling Something Recreating Sound Taking
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
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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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
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
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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Celebration Giving History Month November People Political 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
That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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