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Afrika Bambaataa

"I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash."

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Donna Grant

"Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that."

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Donna Grant

"Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord."

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Donna Grant

"My brother Cody is 19. He wants to stay out of the limelight and become a lawyer. I want him to be an entertainment lawyer, so he can help me out!"

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Donna Grant

"At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me."

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Donna Grant

"A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop."

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Donna Grant

"Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention."

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Donna Grant

"Big Brother is watching... look busy."

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Donna Grant

"I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs."

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Donna Grant

"So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter."

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Donna Grant

"If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices."

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Afrika Bambaataa
"When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture."

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Afrika Bambaataa
"There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence."

People

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Afrika Bambaataa
"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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Afrika Bambaataa
"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."

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Afrika Bambaataa
"I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash."

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Afrika Bambaataa
"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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Afrika Bambaataa
"We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast."

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Afrika Bambaataa
"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."

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Afrika Bambaataa
"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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"They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family."

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