If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAI brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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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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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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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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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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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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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 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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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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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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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 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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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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