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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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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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Joke Lose Vinyl
When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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All Electro Funk Out Planet Record Rock
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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Hand Hiding Keeping Media Music Other Putting Sound Stick Throwing
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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Call Fact Faith God Mathematics Negative Overcoming Positive Religious Science Thought Wonder
We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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Coast East Hip Hop Music Sound Understand Universe West
I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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Break Up DJ Eventually Music Play Record Sound Would
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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Barries Boundaries Country Crossed Fun Listen People Together
Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what’s around them.
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Artist Business Government Hip Hop Mind Nervous People Speak
You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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Back Come Greatness People Treat
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
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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Fun Ideology Keeping Love Peace Place Pushing Thank Traveling Unity Worked
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
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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Lake Moon Old Star Tree Young
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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Conspiracy Hijacked Hip Hop Luciferian Mean People
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.
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Art Boy Call Dealing Different Element Fun Music Rap
When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap Talk Understand

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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