We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAThat’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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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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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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Overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
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I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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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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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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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