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.
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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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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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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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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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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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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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Hip-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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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.
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