KRS-One Quotes About Hip Hop

Quotes about: Hip Hop

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

  KRS-One

  Uplifting, Rap, People

• Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live

  KRS-One

  Rap, Hip Hop, Hips

  Song: 9 Elements, Album: Kristyles, 2003

• If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.

  KRS-One

  Uplifting, Hip Hop, Mind

• Take a look at the police and how they treat you,
  Take a look at these corporations that cheat you.
  Democrats and Republicans are all see-through.
  Now we votin for the lesser of two evils...
  Man, don't let 'em deceive you.
  This is an autocracy, not a democracy,
  But to call this a democracy without mock interest
  In the laws of society? That's called hypocrisy.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Men, Law

• Are you tired of lyrical liars, passing fliers,
  Wannabe MC's, but really good triers,
  Tripping over mic cords, getting you bored,
  A total fraud, this kind of thing I can't afford!

  KRS-One

  Liars, Rap, Tired

  Song: Mortal Thought, Album: Return of the Boom Bap, 1993

• I am the manifestation of study,
  NOT the manifestation of money.
  Therefore, I advance through thought,
  NOT what's manufactured and bought.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Hip Hop, Study

• Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Ignorance, Hip Hop

• The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop

  KRS-One

  Being Yourself, Essence, Hip Hop

• I'd rather make one righteous dollar on my level
  Than make a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Hip Hop, Devil

• When I say hip-hoppers, I mean black, white, Asian, Latino, Chicano, everybody. Everybody. Hip-hop has united all races. Hip-hop has formed a platform for all people, religions, and occupations to meet on something. We all have a platform to meet on now, due to hip-hop. That, to me, is beyond music. That is just a brilliant, brilliant thing.

  KRS-One

  Mean, White, Race

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

• You got to have style, and learn to be original.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Hip Hop, Style

  Song: My Philosophy

• 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

• You were put here to protect us.
  But who protects us from you?

  KRS-One

  Rap, Hip Hop, African American

  Song: Who Protects Us from You?, Album: Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip Hop (BDP)

• Believers of Jesus be denouncing Satan on every level,
  But every Halloween they're dressin' like devils.

  KRS-One

  Jesus, Halloween, Rap

  Song: Higher Level

• Too many MC's take that word 'emcee' lightly;
  They can't Move a Crowd, not even slightly.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Moving, Hip Hop

  Song: MC's Act Like They Don't Know, Album: KRS-One

• Rap is like a set-up...a lot of games,
  A lot of suckers with 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

• 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

• Teach the student what needs to be taught.
  'Cause black and white kids both take shorts
  When one doesn't know about the other one's culture,
  Ignorance swoops down like a vulture.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Kids, Ignorance

  Song: You Must Learn

• Rebel, renegade, must stay paid.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Hip Hop, Rebel

  Song: I'm Still Nr. 1

• ...Cops just surrounding me with pistols everywhere.
  They put me in the backseat of their car handcuffed,
  Pushed out them chests like they're big rough and tough.
  A cop come and said 'You'll never sell your guns now.'
  I said 'It doesn't matter, you'll sell them anyhow.
  You take the guns from me, you sell them for a fee;
  Anyway you put it, they'll get in the city!'

  KRS-One

  Rap, Gun, Cities

• It's not about a salary, it's all about reality.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Reality, Hip Hop

  Song: My Philosophy

• 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

• I break an emcee off proper
  Yo don't check me,
  Ask your Moms and Pops,
  Yo they respect me,
  But here you stand, tryin' to get yours, but gettin' nothin'
  You probably can't spell "Boogie Down" or "Productions"

  KRS-One

  Mom, Hip Hop, Emcee

• I haven't come to tell you I've got juice
  I just produce, create, innovate on a higher level

  KRS-One

  Hip Hop, Juice, Levels

• You are not doing hip hop; you ARE hip hop.

  KRS-One

  Hip Hop, Dancer, Hips

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