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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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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
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
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
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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Equality Freedom Fun Justice Peace Understanding Unity Universal
It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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Joke Lose Vinyl
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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Brought Everybody Funky Jumping Over People Phrase Record Rock Started Time
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
That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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Basically Interest Microchip Ready Well
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
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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Art Boy Call Dealing Different Element Fun Music Rap
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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Hip Hop Music Rapper Talking Thinking
I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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Calypso Care Classical Dance Funk Music Reggae Salsa
We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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Between Down East Foolishness Hip Hop Slow Trying West
I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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Along Brother Country Founder Grandmaster Hip Hop
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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Culture Hip Hop Movement Music Rapper Sound Talk Talking Whole
I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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Always Become Galactic Union Universal

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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