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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Beat Bought Break Hear Much Sound
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 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 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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Ego Foolishness Hand Home Leave Media Sit Understanding
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
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Categories Define House Need People Sound Thinking
When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

All Electro Funk Out Planet Record Rock
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Art Boy Call Dealing Different Element Fun Music Rap
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.”
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Back Beauty Bringing Day MIxed Old Remember Sampling Something Recreating Sound Taking
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
It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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Joke Lose Vinyl
I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Always Become Galactic Union Universal
A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don’t know what they’re talking about. They just think of the rappers.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Hip Hop Music Rapper Talking Thinking
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
Don’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Ask Before Black Blue Brown Called Caught Fighting Name Red White
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

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