I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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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’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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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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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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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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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.
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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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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 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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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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