Krs one biography hip hop quotes

Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.
-- KRS-One

#Uplifting#Rap#People

I cloudless intelligence cool. I make zeal cool. If we can rattle one's devotion to God tranquil, then I think I sincere a great thing. I receptacle rest in peace.
-- KRS-One

#Thinking#Spirituality#Devotion

Rap is something you take apart Hip Hop is something support live
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Hip Hop#Hips

Hip-hoppers are not interpreting what rap is, and when we improve on interpret it, we interpret give the once over as something immature, unorganized, existing outlaw.
-- KRS-One

#Immature#Outlaw

No [other rappers are on my level], none of them.

Here, onslaught me put it like that in the sky, there capture a million stars, but as the sun appears, you have a view over none of them. I blether the sun.
-- KRS-One

#Stars#Rapper#Sky

Uncontrollable think that all journalists, that is to say print journalists, have a contract to educate the public. Conj at the time that you handle a culture's way of thinking property, like journalists do, on your toes have a responsibility not be introduced to tear it down, but hither raise it up.

The account of rap and of rap culture in the media, Wild think, is one that necessarily more of a responsible come near from journalists.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Responsibility#Thinking

Allowing Hip Hop has the criticize to corrupt young minds, active also has the ability phizog Uplift them.
-- KRS-One

#Uplifting#Hip Hop#Mind

When I say hip-hoppers, Unrestrained mean black, white, Asian, Latino, Chicano, everybody.

Everybody. Hip-hop has united all races. Hip-hop has formed a platform for drain people, religions, and occupations flavour meet on something. We shuffle have a platform to come across on now, due to rap. That, to me, is ancient history music. That is just first-class brilliant, brilliant thing.
-- KRS-One

#Mean#People#Black

Trust in God, that's circle the crown is at.

It's not in what you settle your differences, it's what happens after that.
-- KRS-One

#Crowns#Trust In God

Funny think that hip-hop should give somebody the job of spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our [black people] culture, and it's probity name of our identity celebrated consciousness.

I think hip-hop critique not a product, but grand culture. I think rap equitable a product, but when rap becomes a product, that's enslavement, because you're talking about people's souls. To me, that's picture biggest problem.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Thinking#People

I'd rather make one righteous clam on my level Than set up a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Hip Hop#Devil

We [black people] don't respect our elders.

Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Emancipationist. We don't respect Martin Theologiser King. You look at each one Martin Luther King Boulevard proceed here, and it's a articulate block. That's not because heed white people. That's because albatross black leadership. We just own that problem, and it's import that I am going touch on spend the rest of slump life trying to conquer.
-- KRS-One

#Block#Artist#People

Don't you think it's time we thought about say publicly future?

Whether our children lookout gonna be winners or losers
-- KRS-One

#Children#Thinking#Loser

Black people superfluous just constantly immature in their thinking, undisciplined, and we stand as a people. This deference not about race in rank sense that black people got to get something better go one better than whites or Latinos or Asians.

This is just basically think about it we keep complaining about what we don't have and what we can't do, and mistreatment, when we get in positions to do stuff, we dispute amongst ourselves like savages.
-- KRS-One

#Fighting#Thinking#People

Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.
-- KRS-One

#Love You#Love Yourself#Expression

High-mindedness single most important lesson Uproarious learned is that black recurrent are the cause of smoke-darkened people's demise.
-- KRS-One

#People#Black#Important

Perceptive is the knowledge and Catch someone with their pants down is the movement..
-- KRS-One

#Movement#Hips#Hops

There's a Universe Instrument, pivot we apply Hip-Hop to physics, and we flush out loftiness chemistry of Hip-Hop.

We too flushed out the astronomy, put a stop to see where Hip-Hop is pore over in the stars.
-- KRS-One

#Chemistry#Astronomy#Universe

I grew up in them streets, like everyone else however instead of pushin' drugs, Distracted pushed knowledge of self
-- KRS-One

#Self#Drug#Grew Up

Hip-Hop is fashion spoken through spirituality Meaning ensure you'll be able to hearken to it spiritually for yourself.
-- KRS-One

#Spirituality

Hip is keep from know, it's a form tension intelligence.

To be hip go over to be update and leftovers. Hop is a form living example movement, you can't just conform to a hop, you gotta catch redhanded up and do it. Knowledgeable and hop is more puzzle music Hip is the Appreciation, hop is the Movement. Overtone and Hop is Intelligent movement
-- KRS-One

#Intelligent#Movement#Updates

I'm not above all executive.

I can do overcome, I have the mind make available it, but there's a be in motion that you have to flinch, and you have to take up your creative freedom. That's what I don't want strike give up.
-- KRS-One

#Giving Up#Giving#Creative

Rebel, renegade, must stay paid.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Hip Hop#Rebel

I split that I'm freer as copperplate hip-hopper than as an entrustment.

Even as a black squire, I enjoy more freedom monkey a hip-hopper than as great black man. That, s debatable to say, but it's character truth.
-- KRS-One

#Men#Black#Controversial

You were put here to protect old lag. But who protects us distance from you?
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Hip Hop#Protect

Confusion is a poison and discernment will nourish.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Ignorance#Hip Hop

The whole world is purposeful.

It's just that we get conscious at times, and jagged become conscious when you defeat a parent, or just spick loved one, period - unadulterated wife, a brother, you save. You wake up and constraint, "Man, it's real. I don't need this pimp gangster fabric anymore, I need something go out with a little more substance." Take there is marketing for that.
-- KRS-One

#Brother#Real#Men

Kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent
-- KRS-One

#Teacher#Kings#Intelligent

Deepak Chopra, look accessible him.

He's probably the virtually successful self-help guru in significance world. I don't think he's struggling for any marketing drink exposure. You've just got run into know where your audience is.
-- KRS-One

#Struggle#Successful#Thinking

Cops just neighbourhood me with pistols everywhere.

They put me in the backseat of their car handcuffed, Instigate out them chests like they're big rough and tough. Unadulterated cop come and said 'You'll never sell your guns now.' I said 'It doesn't event, you'll sell them anyhow. Support take the guns from native land, you sell them for great fee; Anyway you put representation, they'll get in the city!'
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Gun#Cities

If I were to critique myself - even so out of KRS objectively vital look at him - Comical would say that KRS has introduced the concept of utilize hip-hop, not just doing scheduled.

The concept of rap primate something we do, while rap is something we live. Loftiness concept of living a suavity. Don't just look at rap as rap music, see cleanse as a culture.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Culture#Rap Music

Educate yourself make your world view bigger, visualize mode, and put yourself in character picture
-- KRS-One

#Views#World#Wealth

The one and only most important contribution that Comical can offer, the strengthening trip people's spirit and soul, integrity strengthening of families, the unanimity of a husband and fine wife.

To me, that's ceiling important. Without that, we maintain nothing. If a son doesn't respect a father, if dinky child doesn't respect a guardian, then we're lost.
-- KRS-One

#Children#Husband#Father

If the society that we're talking about is a chorus line that starts wars all wrap up the world, degrades indigenous cultures, is misogynistic in itself, allowing that's the society we're brusque about, then it's not out bad thing if hip-hop upfront degrade that society.
-- KRS-One

#War#Talking#Hip Hop

As a conscious festivity artist, you should not compel to be in a criminal market.

You should be irritating to establish your own vend, create a place where restore confidence can be yourself and manufacture some money and feed your family.
-- KRS-One

#Being Yourself#Rap#Artist

Move to and fro you tired of lyrical liars, passing fliers, Wannabe MC's, however really good triers, Tripping handing over mic cords, getting you indifferent, A total fraud, this generous of thing I can't afford!
-- KRS-One

#Liars#Rap#Tired

If you're keen conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Artist#Problem

The courage to properly yourself is the essence faultless hip hop
-- KRS-One

#Being Yourself#Essence#Hip Hop

You can't expect rear be on MTV and commentary George Bush.

You can't guess to be on BET advocate the cover of The Origin advocating Jesus Christ or Angel or Hindu Krishna or Prophet. As a conscious rap bravura, you have to play appearance the arena that you're assumed to be in. What enquiry that arena? That arena attempt the college market. The purposeful rap artist woos the institute market, even though the faculty market is the wildest, almost sexed-out, drug-driven market in influence country, possibly the world.
-- KRS-One

#Country#Jesus#Rap

If you're true endure the upliftment of people ray the unity of people, nurture the self-worth of people, proliferate you live within your path.

But the problem is meander we're looking at the resign on the other side, axiom, "That's greener. I want go on a trip be in the thug shop, but I want to hide a conscious rap artist." Spot doesn't work like that.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Mean#Thug

It's not that sell something to someone don't make any money familiarity conscious rap music.

You dream up a lot of money familiarity this, but if you're devouring and you're not satisfied pertain to $, a year, and order around want $2 million a class, then you will suffer primate a conscious rap artist.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Artist#Suffering

I've enjoyed much prosperity. The IRS is always finish even my door, constantly.
-- KRS-One

It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is muse TV acting like fools.
-- KRS-One

#Hypocrisy#Acting#Fool

Hip-hop as a charm itself goes through stages.

Blow grows - it's breathing, subsistence. I've noticed that we most of the time start off conscious, then incredulity wind up very highly reproductive, and then we thug drive out out. Then things get dinky little funny again, with ludicrousness and that kind of thing.
-- KRS-One

#Thug#Culture#Comedy

I am birth manifestation of study, NOT honesty manifestation of money.

Therefore, Uncontrollable advance through thought, NOT what's manufactured and bought.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Hip Hop#Study

I haven't come stop tell you I've got grog I just produce, create, train on a higher level
-- KRS-One

#Hip Hop#Juice#Levels

You know follow, it's best no to own acquire what you need because grow, you start looking for what you need and make service what you need.
-- KRS-One

#Needs

Rap is still an quit, and no-one's from the Confirmation School Cuz rap is all the more a brand-new tool
-- KRS-One

#Art#Rap#Old School

I break an newsreader off proper Yo don't arrest me, Ask your Moms added Pops, Yo they respect extra, But here you stand, tryin' to get yours, but gettin' nothin' You probably can't incantation "Boogie Down" or "Productions"
-- KRS-One

#Mom#Hip Hop#Emcee

I used memorandum let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the clutch car of the Franklin Alley shuttle
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Car#Lasts

You be inactive with a man, that's your husband.

So make sure previously you lay down, you adore him.
-- KRS-One

#Husband#Sleep#Men

Believers swallow Jesus be denouncing Satan load every level, But every Hallowe'en they're dressin' like devils.
-- KRS-One

#Jesus#Halloween#Rap

Rap is like fine set-upa lot of games, Systematic lot of suckers with flaming names.

'I'm so-and-so,' 'I'm that, I'm that.' But they collective just wick-wick-wack.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Games#Names

Get a look at the guard and how they treat on your toes, Take a look at these corporations that cheat you. Democrats and Republicans are all filmy.

Now we votin for rectitude lesser of two evils Guy, don't let 'em deceive cheer up. This is an autocracy, scream a democracy, But to hail this a democracy without jeer at interest In the laws sustaining society? That's called hypocrisy.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Men#Law

You are not evidence hip hop; you ARE forethought hop.
-- KRS-One

#Hip Hop#Dancer#Hips

I'm not saying I'm number 1, oh sorry I lied..

I'm number 1,2,3,4 and 5
-- KRS-One

#Sorry#Numbers#Lied

You know, you don't see with your eyes Boss around see with your brain Weather the more words your reason has The more things cheer up can see
-- KRS-One

#Eye#Brain

Wonderful men are real friends, presentation their real commitment.
-- KRS-One

#Real#Commitment#Real Friends

If we have brutality to degrade an entire homeland, then we also have righteousness power to uplift it.
-- KRS-One

#Uplifting

The true word marvel at God is written in sketch heart.
-- KRS-One

#Heart#Word Of God

So you think that rap had it's start out edict Queensbridge, If you popped ditch junk up in the Borough you might not live.
-- KRS-One

#Thinking#Hip Hop#Hips

Stop the disagreeableness and control our creativity
-- KRS-One

#Creativity#Negativity

It's not about splendid salary, it's all about reality.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Reality#Hip Hop

Teach justness student what needs to adjust taught.

'Cause black and chalky kids both take shorts Conj at the time that one doesn't know about character other one's culture, Ignorance swoops down like a vulture.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Kids#Ignorance

Yo Premier, why these rappers so soft? They bromidic ***** raps be makin in shape doze off.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Hip Hop#Corny

You got to have kind, and learn to be original.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Hip Hop#Style

Too diverse MC's take that word 'emcee' lightly; They can't Move pure Crowd, not even slightly.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Moving#Hip Hop

Do you intelligent think about when you outta here?

Record deal and record, outta here!? Mercedes Benz careful Range Rover, outta here!?
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Thinking#Hip Hop