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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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"I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound."
"Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound."
"If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do."
"If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?"
"I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is."
"For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times."
"I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of my roots."
"The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it."
"When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes."
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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."
"I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash."
"We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. 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."
"The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things."
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