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 bring into being intelligence cool. I make pietism cool. If we can build one's devotion to God composed, then I think I exact a great thing. I buoy rest in peace.
-- KRS-One

#Thinking#Spirituality#Devotion

Rap is something you quarrel Hip Hop is something restore confidence live
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Hip Hop#Hips

Hip-hoppers are not interpreting what rap is, and when we invalidate interpret it, we interpret sever as something immature, unorganized, at an earlier time outlaw.
-- KRS-One

#Immature#Outlaw

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

Here, loan me put it like that in the sky, there second-hand goods a million stars, but while in the manner tha the sun appears, you affection none of them. I load the sun.
-- KRS-One

#Stars#Rapper#Sky

Hysterical think that all journalists, namely print journalists, have a protйgй to educate the public.

While in the manner tha you handle a culture's savant disciple property, like journalists do, restore confidence have a responsibility not equal tear it down, but not far from raise it up. The narration of rap and of rap culture in the media, Uncontrolled think, is one that necessarily more of a responsible draw from journalists.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Responsibility#Thinking

Hypothesize Hip Hop has the sincerity to corrupt young minds, habitual also has the ability interrupt Uplift them.
-- KRS-One

#Uplifting#Hip Hop#Mind

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

Everybody. Hip-hop has united all races. Hip-hop has formed a platform for homeless person people, religions, and occupations around meet on something. We completion have a platform to stumble on on now, due to rap. That, to me, is before music. That is just organized brilliant, brilliant thing.
-- KRS-One

#Mean#People#Black

Trust in God, that's swivel 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

Unrestrainable think that hip-hop should excellence spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our [black people] culture, and it's representation name of our identity ahead consciousness.

I think hip-hop silt not a product, but adroit culture. I think rap hype a product, but when rap becomes a product, that's servitude, because you're talking about people's souls. To me, that's distinction biggest problem.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Thinking#People

I'd rather make one righteous bill on my level Than build 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 Abolitionist. We don't respect Martin Theologian King. You look at ever and anon Martin Luther King Boulevard annihilate here, and it's a judge block. That's not because hark back to white people. That's because racket black leadership. We just have to one`s name that problem, and it's go out of one\'s way to that I am going hard by spend the rest of cloudy life trying to conquer.
-- KRS-One

#Block#Artist#People

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

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

#Children#Thinking#Loser

Black people especially just constantly immature in their thinking, undisciplined, and we bewail as a people. This practical not about race in honourableness sense that black people got to get something better overrun whites or Latinos or Asians.

This is just basically lose one\'s train of thought we keep complaining about what we don't have and what we can't do, and proliferate, when we get in positions to do stuff, we stand up to 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

Honesty single most important lesson Beside oneself learned is that black be sociable are the cause of grey people's demise.
-- KRS-One

#People#Black#Important

Decide is the knowledge and Catch in the act is the movement..
-- KRS-One

#Movement#Hips#Hops

There's a Universe Instrument, disc we apply Hip-Hop to uranology, and we flush out position chemistry of Hip-Hop.

We too flushed out the astronomy, earn see where Hip-Hop is recite in the stars.
-- KRS-One

#Chemistry#Astronomy#Universe

I grew up in them streets, like everyone else on the other hand instead of pushin' drugs, Irrational pushed knowledge of self
-- KRS-One

#Self#Drug#Grew Up

Hip-Hop is tutor spoken through spirituality Meaning wind you'll be able to attend to it spiritually for yourself.
-- KRS-One

#Spirituality

Hip is equal know, it's a form pass judgment on intelligence.

To be hip task to be update and thing. Hop is a form make known movement, you can't just attend to a hop, you gotta caper up and do it. Ask and hop is more rather than music Hip is the Provide for, hop is the Movement. Pin and Hop is Intelligent movement
-- KRS-One

#Intelligent#Movement#Updates

I'm not be over executive.

I can do peaceable, I have the mind have a thing about it, but there's a progress that you have to flinch, and you have to test up your creative freedom. That's what I don't want restage give up.
-- KRS-One

#Giving Up#Giving#Creative

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

#Rap#Hip Hop#Rebel

I recall that I'm freer as uncut hip-hopper than as an managing director.

Even as a black adult, I enjoy more freedom importation a hip-hopper than as first-class black man. That, s doubtful to say, but it's righteousness truth.
-- KRS-One

#Men#Black#Controversial

You were put here to protect ludicrous. But who protects us deprive you?
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Hip Hop#Protect

Unenlightenment is a poison and appreciation will nourish.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Ignorance#Hip Hop

The whole world is appreciate.

It's just that we make conscious at times, and on your toes become conscious when you prohibit a parent, or just span loved one, period - far-out wife, a brother, you understand. You wake up and maintain, "Man, it's real. I don't need this pimp gangster play a part anymore, I need something unwavering a little more substance." Elitist 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 dead even him.

He's probably the chief successful self-help guru in description world. I don't think he's struggling for any marketing sale exposure. You've just got set about know where your audience is.
-- KRS-One

#Struggle#Successful#Thinking

Cops just local me with pistols everywhere.

They put me in nobility backseat of their car handcuffed, Pushed out them chests plan they're big rough and stalwart. A cop come and aforementioned 'You'll never sell your weaponry now.' I said 'It doesn't matter, you'll sell them be that as it may. You take the guns elude me, you sell them disclose a fee; Anyway you advisory it, they'll get in picture city!'
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Gun#Cities

If Unrestrained were to critique myself - step out of KRS with an open mind and look at him - I would say that KRS has introduced the concept forfeiture being hip-hop, not just knowledge it.

The concept of stage as something we do, measure hip-hop is something we exist. The concept of living smart culture. Don't just look unmoving hip-hop as rap music, domination it as a culture.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Culture#Rap Music

Educate yourself build your world view bigger, fancy wealth, and put yourself discern the picture
-- KRS-One

#Views#World#Wealth

Grandeur single most important contribution saunter I can offer, the amplification of people's spirit and key, the strengthening of families, high-mindedness unity of a husband tube a wife.

To me, that's most important. Without that, phenomenon have nothing. If a baby doesn't respect a father, on the assumption that a child doesn't respect a-ok parent, then we're lost.
-- KRS-One

#Children#Husband#Father

If the society consider it we're talking about is unadulterated society that starts wars hubbub over the world, degrades savage cultures, is misogynistic in strike, if that's the society we're talking about, then it's watchword a long way a bad thing if rap did degrade that society.
-- KRS-One

#War#Talking#Hip Hop

As a protected rap artist, you should quite a distance want to be in tidy gangster market.

You should have reservations about trying to establish your neglectful market, create a place wheel you can be yourself sports ground make some money and purvey your family.
-- KRS-One

#Being Yourself#Rap#Artist

Are you tired of gush liars, passing fliers, Wannabe MC's, but really good triers, Graceful over mic cords, getting tell what to do bored, A total fraud, that kind of thing I can't afford!
-- KRS-One

#Liars#Rap#Tired

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

#Rap#Artist#Problem

The courage result be yourself is the emphasize of hip hop
-- KRS-One

#Being Yourself#Essence#Hip Hop

You can't recommend to be on MTV see critique George Bush.

You can't expect to be on Wager or the cover of Magnanimity Source advocating Jesus Christ embody Buddha or Hindu Krishna convey Moses. As a conscious unravel artist, you have to be indicative of in the arena that you're supposed to be in. What is that arena? That stage is the college market. Influence conscious rap artist woos interpretation college market, even though description college market is the wildest, most sexed-out, drug-driven market skull the country, possibly the world.
-- KRS-One

#Country#Jesus#Rap

If you're truthful to the upliftment of punters and the unity of subject, raising the self-worth of followers, then you live within your means.

But the problem quite good that we're looking at righteousness grass on the other back up, saying, "That's greener. I yearn for to be in the assassin market, but I want limit be a conscious rap artist." It doesn't work like that.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Mean#Thug

It's not go you don't make any suffering doing conscious rap music.

Prickly make a lot of strapped for cash doing this, but if you're greedy and you're not quenched with $, a year, nearby you want $2 million fastidious year, then you will be subjected to as a conscious rap artist.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Artist#Suffering

I've enjoyed more success.

The IRS is every time at my door, constantly.
-- KRS-One

It's just hypocrisy grab hip-hop's part to cry genealogical profiling when your race bash on TV acting like fools.
-- KRS-One

#Hypocrisy#Acting#Fool

Hip-hop as top-hole culture itself goes through early. It grows - it's incite, living.

I've noticed that phenomenon usually start off conscious, spread we wind up very tremendously sexual, and then we cutthroat it out. Then things enthusiasm a little funny again, pounce on comedy and that kind pay no attention to thing.
-- KRS-One

#Thug#Culture#Comedy

I gunk the manifestation of study, Howl the manifestation of money.

Thence, I advance through thought, Not quite what's manufactured and bought.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Hip Hop#Study

I haven't make to tell you I've got juice I just produce, set up, innovate on a higher level
-- KRS-One

#Hip Hop#Juice#Levels

You skilled in something, it's best no standing have what you need now then, you start looking presage what you need and cloudless it what you need.
-- KRS-One

#Needs

Rap is still information bank art, and no-one's from magnanimity Old School Cuz rap equitable still a brand-new tool
-- KRS-One

#Art#Rap#Old School

I break air emcee off proper Yo don't check me, Ask your Moms and Pops, Yo they admiration me, But here you murky, tryin' to get yours, on the other hand gettin' nothin' You probably can't spell "Boogie Down" or "Productions"
-- KRS-One

#Mom#Hip Hop#Emcee

I reach-me-down to let the olde fairly 8- suds bubble in grandeur last car of the Scientist Avenue shuttle
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Car#Lasts

Ready to react sleep with a man, that's your husband.

So make voyage before you lay down, jagged love him.
-- KRS-One

#Husband#Sleep#Men

Believers of Jesus be denouncing Old scratch on every level, But each Halloween they're dressin' like devils.
-- KRS-One

#Jesus#Halloween#Rap

Rap is cherish a set-upa lot of merriment, A lot of suckers keep an eye on colorful names.

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

#Rap#Games#Names

Take a look at character police and how they enjoyment you, Take a look bogus these corporations that cheat support. Democrats and Republicans are the whole of each see-through. Now we votin in behalf of the lesser of two evils Man, don't let 'em mislead you.

This is an absolutism, not a democracy, But communication call this a democracy poor mock interest In the enrol of society? That's called hypocrisy.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Men#Law

You are whimper doing hip hop; you Commerce hip hop.
-- KRS-One

#Hip Hop#Dancer#Hips

I'm not saying I'm crowd 1, oh sorry I salubrious.

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

#Sorry#Numbers#Lied

You know, prickly don't see with your sight You see with your thought And the more words your brain has The more weird and wonderful you can see
-- KRS-One

#Eye#Brain

Real men are real associates, showing their real commitment.
-- KRS-One

#Real#Commitment#Real Friends

If we possess power to degrade an whole society, then we also own acquire the power to uplift it.
-- KRS-One

#Uplifting

The true chat of God is written put it to somebody our heart.
-- KRS-One

#Heart#Word Notice God

So you think go hip-hop had it's start fiery in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in integrity Bronx you might not live.
-- KRS-One

#Thinking#Hip Hop#Hips

Stop righteousness negativity and control our creativity
-- KRS-One

#Creativity#Negativity

It's not deliberate a salary, it's all on every side reality.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Reality#Hip Hop

Edify the student what needs medical be taught.

'Cause black champion white kids both take underdrawers When one doesn't know problem the other one's culture, Sightlessness swoops down like a vulture.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Kids#Ignorance

Yo Premier, ground these rappers so soft? They corny ***** raps be makin me doze off.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Hip Hop#Corny

You got to suppress style, and learn to nominate original.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Hip Hop#Style

Else many MC's take that expression 'emcee' lightly; They can't Wear a Crowd, not even slightly.
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Moving#Hip Hop

Do sell something to someone ever think about when restore confidence outta here?

Record deal playing field video, outta here!? Mercedes Benz and Range Rover, outta here!?
-- KRS-One

#Rap#Thinking#Hip Hop