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Powers that be can’t stay in control if you have everybody in love and in tune with each other and with the planet, and in tune with the electrons and the dark matter that’s moving at the speed of light.

Afrika Bambaataa

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
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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Anything Dance House Music People Techno Think
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
It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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Joke Lose Vinyl
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
All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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Each Fighting Illusion Keep Name Other Using
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
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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Artist Business Government Hip Hop Mind Nervous People Speak
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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Act Colorless Culture Hip Hop Music White Yellow
Don’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?
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Ask Before Black Blue Brown Called Caught Fighting Name Red White
Powers that be can’t stay in control if you have everybody in love and in tune with each other and with the planet, and in tune with the electrons and the dark matter that’s moving at the speed of light.
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Control Dark Electron Everybody Love Moving Other Planet Power Speed Tune
I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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Break Up DJ Eventually Music Play Record Sound Would
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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Hand Hiding Keeping Media Music Other Putting Sound Stick Throwing
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
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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Breakdancing Community Dancing Freestyle Happening Type White
That’s definitely my goal, and always has been through the Universal Zulu Nation, is to show that music breaks down all that foolishness and can bring all types of people together, especially when you can mix it and shape it.
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Always Been Break Down Especially Foolishness Goal Mix Music Nation People Shape Show Through Together Universal

Powers that be can’t stay in control if you have everybody in love and in tune with each other and with the planet, and in tune with the electrons and the dark matter that’s moving at the speed of light.

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Powers that be can’t stay in control if you have everybody in love and in tune with each other and with the planet, and in tune with the electrons and the dark matter that’s moving at the speed of light.

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