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My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass.

~Afrika Bambaataa

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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. 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 Bambaataa

Topics: About Culture Hip-Hop Just Know Lot Movement People People Say Rappers Say Take Talk Talking Think Times Whole You

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The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

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Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock.

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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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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

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Topics: Beats Break Brought Come Eventually Hear Knew Lot Much Other Out Records Sound Up Would You Dj

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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. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind.

~Afrika Bambaataa

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Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.

~Afrika Bambaataa

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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... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.

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They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.

~Afrika Bambaataa

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: April 10th, 1960

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