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 BAMBAATAAWe also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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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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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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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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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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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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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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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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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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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