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I haven't come to tell you I've got juice I just produce, create, innovate on a higher level
I used to let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the last car of the Franklin Avenue shuttle
I don't even want my music on mainstream radio. They don't deserve it. They destroy careers.
I'm here to inspire young people to be part of the most magnificent culture on earth: hip-hop.
Every ghetto kid that walks the earth can see something in KRS-One that reminds him of himself.
Educate yourself make your world view bigger, visualize wealth, and put yourself in the picture
Trust in God, that's where the crown is at. It's not in what you get, it's what happens after that.
Graffiti art brings you back to your human skills - your spirit and what your being is really about.
I'm hoping to make the kind of difference in my lifetime that allows me to be remembered positively.
No one ever really talks about the punk-rock involvement in hip-hop, which influenced Afrika Bambaata.
I grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self
The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.
Believers of Jesus be denouncing Satan on every level, But every Halloween they're dressin' like devils.
It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.
If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.
Original hip hop manipulated technologies of all sorts; it was not manipulated by the technology itself.
I'm not a fan of public school at all; I think it's one of the greatest catastrophes of American history.
Don't you think it's time we thought about the future? Whether our children are gonna be winners or losers
The only time you had blacks, whites, and Latinos jamming together was in hip-hop. It's an unsung history.
I'd rather make one righteous dollar on my level Than make a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil.
For KRS-One, I have a specific sound - sparse drums and bass. I try to steer away from elaborate productions.
The idea of New Zealanders sounding like Americans is not it. You got to rhyme in your language, your accent.
If the radio ever played my music, I would sue them. And they know it, which is why they don't play my music.
Where I go, rap goes. Rap is like my dog; it's like my little pet. And where I go, I lead my little pet with me.
When you know your self-worth, and you read and you ask questions and you study and you travel, you become free.
When you seek to do something, if you don't know the whole game plan, you're usually going to work against yourself.
Hip-Hop is being spoken through spirituality... Meaning that you'll be able to listen to it spiritually for yourself.
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.
I think that Napster is the greatest invention since sliced bread. Napster, to me, is liberation and freedom for artists.
Young people may be stupid at times, but they respond to the truth when it is present, and for them, KRS-One is the truth!
When I was about 15 years old, I began to embark on an MC career but also to study philosophy with an emphasis on theology.
The Temple of HipHop has declared HipHop its own religion. We believe HipHop is divine. HipHop proves the existence of God.
Do you ever think about when you outta here? Record deal and video, outta here!? Mercedes Benz and Range Rover, outta here!?
You know, you don't see with your eyes You see with your brain And the more words your brain has The more things you can see
I flew everywhere for the first 10 years of my career, and I started to not like commercial transport. I just don't feel safe.
Illiteracy causes violence. If you don't have enough words in your vocabulary, you can't even seek your way out of a situation.
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.
There's no distinction. A teacher is a preacher. The teachers in public schools are preachers, and the preachers in church are teachers.
I am the manifestation of study, NOT the manifestation of money. Therefore, I advance through thought, NOT what's manufactured and bought.
The Temple of Hip-Hop makes sure that we don't just approach hip-hop just through music or through rap. We approach the totality of hip-hop.
Hip-hoppers are not interpreting what hip-hop is, and when we do interpret it, we interpret it as something immature, unorganized, and outlaw.
Record companies feel they are the culture. Hip-hop has to begin to define, protect, and promote itself, and that's why we founded the Temple.
Hip Hop is an extension of our very being, and so the study of Hip Hop is the study of self-expression leading to the study of one's true self.
DMX - everything this brother spits is hot. Everything. This is the heat right here. When I stand next to MCs, this is who I wanna stand next to.
Hate reveals itself for what it really is - evil! It cannot see clearly, so it exposes itself at every turn, and those that truly love can see it.
Hip Hop is an idea. It is the pursuit of one's authentic being through the arts. It is not a physical thing; it is an attitude - even an aptitude.
Self-management and self-control are the keys to advanced knowledge, and both are difficult to learn without a sense of your own cultural identity.
I make intelligence cool. I make spirituality cool. If we can make one's devotion to God cool, then I think I did a great thing. I can rest in peace.
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.
My theory is that hip-hop is the most advanced version of civilisation on earth, and we are here to usher the rest of humanity into the Age of Aquarius.