I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAHip-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.
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There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.
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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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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 brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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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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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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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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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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