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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAYou treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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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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Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.
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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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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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I’d like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go.
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