We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAYou 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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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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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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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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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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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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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these 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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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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Hip-hop has crossed many boundaries and racial barriers, broken them down for people to come together, to listen to the music or come out of their own social ills in each of the countries that it has went to.
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That’s definitely my goal, and always has been through the Universal Zulu Nation, is to show that music breaks down all that foolishness and can bring all types of people together, especially when you can mix it and shape it.
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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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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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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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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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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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