If you don't know hip-hop, at least a little bit of it, you can't even call yourself an American. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
How can you call yourself a cosmopolitan modern person if you don't know what hip-hop is? — KRS-One Copy Share Image
It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
I haven't come to tell you I've got juice I just produce, create, innovate on a higher level — KRS-One Copy Share Image
No one ever really talks about the punk-rock involvement in hip-hop, which influenced Afrika Bambaata. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
If the society that we're talking about is a society that starts wars all over the world, degrades indigenous cultures, is misogynistic… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
I break an emcee off proper Yo don't check me, Ask your Moms and Pops, Yo they respect me, But here you… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Record companies feel they are the culture. Hip-hop has to begin to define, protect, and promote itself, and that's why we founded… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Every ten years, we get a new old school. In 1987, we thought 1977 was the best era in hip-hop. Here we… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm the prophet of hip hop for real. Maybe I do come with some kind of divine principle behind me, because… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Hip Hop is an idea. It is the pursuit of one's authentic being through the arts. It is not a physical thing;… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property,… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
When my time is up in hip-hop, it's going to remain what Afrika Bambaataa thought it was supposed to be. It's going… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Hip-hop as a culture itself goes through stages. It grows - it's breathing, living. I've noticed that we usually start off conscious,… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Hate is indeed self-destructive, and this is what real Hip Hop must avoid at all cost. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Believers of Jesus be denouncing Satan on every level, But every Halloween they're dressin' like devils. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
My theory is that hip-hop is the most advanced version of civilisation on earth, and we are here to usher the rest… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
I do have a desire to bring a spiritual tone to the hip-hop community, which may force me to open a facility… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Many of us were raised without a father, and the subject of deadbeat dads hits home in a lot of areas. Most… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
If you don't know hip-hop, at least a little bit of it, you can't even call yourself an American. — KRS-One Copy Share
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… — KRS-One Copy Share
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'… — KRS-One Copy Share
I mistakably paid respect and condolences to the wrong Beastie Boy member King Ad-Rock when it should have been MCA. In light of this,… — KRS-One Copy Share
Maybe I'm the prophet of hip hop for real. Maybe I do come with some kind of divine principle behind me, because I know… — KRS-One Copy Share
“The God of your understanding, has chosen you and you've agreed To be here in this space and time to do something, that only… — KRS-One Copy Share
There is no forgiveness, justice, or healing on any level when hate is involved. — KRS-One Copy Share
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… — KRS-One Copy Share
I used to let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the last car of the Franklin Avenue shuttle — KRS-One Copy Share
I honestly now know that I'm the physical embodiment of hip-hop on earth. That's my only purpose here on earth is to keep the… — KRS-One Copy Share
If I were to critique myself - step out of KRS objectively and look at him - I would say that KRS has introduced… — KRS-One Copy Share
