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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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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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Categories Define House Need People Sound Thinking
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
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
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
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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Basically Culture Dancing Movement Rap White
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
It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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Joke Lose Vinyl
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
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
I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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Always Become Galactic Union Universal
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
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
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
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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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
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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Celebration Giving History Month November People Political Together

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