All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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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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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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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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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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It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that’s happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community.
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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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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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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