KRS-One Quotes - Page 3

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• The single most important contribution that I can offer, the strengthening of people's spirit and soul, the strengthening of families, the unity of a husband and a wife. To me, that's most important. Without that, we have nothing. If a son doesn't respect a father, if a child doesn't respect a parent, then we're lost.

  KRS-One

  Children, Husband, Father

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• Hip-Hop is being spoken through spirituality... Meaning that you'll be able to listen to it spiritually for yourself.

  KRS-One

  Hip Hop, Able, Hips

  Source: www.ihiphop.com

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• I told Wayne to his face he was the dopest MC out. MC, not rapper. I told him to his face because I believe that, Wayne is nice! Wayne is bananas with his lyrics, with his whole delivery, with his whole thing. Lil Wayne is the man!

  KRS-One

  Nice, Believe, Men

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• You can't expect to be on MTV and critique George Bush. You can't expect to be on BET or the cover of 'The Source' advocating Jesus Christ or Buddha or Hindu Krishna or Moses. As a conscious rap artist, you have to play in the arena that you're supposed to be in. What is that arena? That arena is the college market. The conscious rap artist woos the college market, even though the college market is the wildest, most sexed-out, drug-driven market in the country, possibly the world.

  KRS-One

  Country, Jesus, Rap

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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

  KRS-One

  Race, Hypocrisy, Hip Hop

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• I'm not an executive. I can do it, I have the mind for it, but there's a life that you have to lead, and you have to give up your creative freedom. That's what I don't want to give up.

  KRS-One

  Giving Up, Creative, Mind

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• Do you ever think about when you outta here?
  Record deal and video, outta here!?
  Mercedes Benz and Range Rover, outta here!?

  KRS-One

  Rap, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Song: Outta Here, Album: Return of the Boom Bap, 1993

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• Hip-hoppers are not interpreting what hip-hop is, and when we do interpret it, we interpret it as something immature, unorganized, and outlaw.

  KRS-One

  Hip Hop, Immature, Hips

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• As a conscious rap artist, you should not want to be in a gangster market. You should be trying to establish your own market, create a place where you can be yourself and make some money and feed your family.

  KRS-One

  Being Yourself, Rap, Artist

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property, like journalists do, you have a responsibility not to tear it down, but to raise it up. The depiction of rap and of hip-hop culture in the media, I think, is one that needs more of a responsible approach from journalists.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Responsibility, Thinking

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• You know something, it's best no to have what you need
  because then, you start looking for what you need
  and make it what you need.

  KRS-One

  Needs, Knows

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• Yo Premier, why these rappers so soft?
  They corny ass raps be makin me doze off.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Hip Hop, Corny

  Song: Criminal Minded '08

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• If I were to critique myself - step out of KRS objectively and look at him - I would say that KRS has introduced the concept of being hip-hop, not just doing it. The concept of rap as something we do, while hip-hop is something we live. The concept of living a culture. Don't just look at hip-hop as rap music, see it as a culture.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Hip Hop, Culture

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• Deepak Chopra, look at him. He's probably the most successful self-help guru in the world. I don't think he's struggling for any marketing or exposure. You've just got to know where your audience is.

  KRS-One

  Struggle, Successful, Thinking

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Artist, Problem

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of the culture, and it's the name of the identity and consciousness. I think hip-hop is not a product, but a culture. I think rap is a product, but when hip-hop becomes a product, that's slavery, because you're talking about people's souls.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Thinking, Soul

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's a Universe Instrument, where we apply Hip-Hop to astronomy, and we flush out the chemistry of Hip-Hop. We also flushed out the astronomy, to see where Hip-Hop is read in the stars.

  KRS-One

  Stars, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: www.ihiphop.com

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• It's not that you don't make any money doing conscious rap music. You make a lot of money doing this, but if you're greedy and you're not satisfied with $500,000 a year, and you want $2 million a year, then you will suffer as a conscious rap artist.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Artist, Years

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• Just black executives have a bias against older artists. We don't respect our elders. That's not because of white people. That's because of black leadership. We just have that problem, and it's something that I am going to spend the rest of my life trying to conquer.

  KRS-One

  Artist, People, Black

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think music should be free. I think all communication should be free. I think people should respect artists, and there should be a certain respect for artists who give their music away for free. If your music winds up on Napster and you approve of it, then the person downloading your music should at least go to your concert, should at least purchase your songs.

  KRS-One

  Song, Communication, Artist

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Rap is still an art, and no-one's from the Old School
  Cuz rap is still a brand-new tool

  KRS-One

  Art, Rap, School

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• I used to let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the last car of the Franklin Avenue shuttle

  KRS-One

  Rap, Car, Lasts

  Song: My Life, Album: Life, 2006

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• I've enjoyed much success. The IRS is always at my door, constantly.

  KRS-One

  Doors, Irs, Enjoyed

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• I know that I'm freer as a hip-hopper than as an executive. Even as a black man, I enjoy more freedom as a hip-hopper than as a black man. That, s controversial to say, but it's the truth.

  KRS-One

  Men, Black, Hips

  Source: www.avclub.com

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