Rap is still an art, and no-one's from the Old School Cuz rap is still a brand-new tool — KRS-One Art Copy Share Image
When you seek to do something, if you don't know the whole game plan, you're usually going to work against yourself. — KRS-One Game Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of public school at all; I think it's one of the greatest catastrophes of American history. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem. — KRS-One Art Copy Share Image
Do you ever think about when you outta here? Record deal and video, outta here!? Mercedes Benz and Range Rover, outta here!? — KRS-One Benz Copy Share Image
I flew everywhere for the first 10 years of my career, and I started to not like commercial transport. I just don't… — KRS-One Career Copy Share Image
Graffiti art brings you back to your human skills - your spirit and what your being is really about. — KRS-One Art 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
For me, I see myself as a role model because, everything I do, there is a person somewhere who needs to hear… — KRS-One Conflict 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
Before I came out, there was no such thing as a black conciousness movement. Kids on the street didn't know who Malcom… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
It's not that you don't make any money doing conscious rap music. You make a lot of money doing this, but if… — KRS-One Art Copy Share Image
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… — KRS-One Audience 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 Age 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 Art Copy Share Image
The truth is nobody was a Muslim until Public Enemy came out. Then, everybody was Muslim this and Muslim that. It's a… — KRS-One Enemy Copy Share Image
Even with so many artists using auto-tune, there's still a growing group of artists rising up and going in the opposite direction,… — KRS-One Art 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 Approach Copy Share Image
To me, that's the biggest problem with hip-hop today is the fact that everyone believes that all of hip-hop is rap music,… — KRS-One Art 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
When you know your self-worth, and you read and you ask questions and you study and you travel, you become free. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Believers of Jesus be denouncing Satan on every level, But every Halloween they're dressin' like devils. — KRS-One Believer 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
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
When I was about 15 years old, I began to embark on an MC career but also to study philosophy with an… — 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 Acting Copy Share Image
I used to let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the last car of the Franklin Avenue shuttle — KRS-One Copy Share Image
I'm not saying I'm number 1, oh sorry I lied.. I'm number 1,2,3,4 and 5 — KRS-One Inspirational Copy Share Image
If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them. — KRS-One Ability Copy Share Image
Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
You must have an opinion about yourself, some kind of meaning to yourself, a purpose, if you are really going to learn… — KRS-One Desire Copy Share Image
DMX - everything this brother spits is hot. Everything. This is the heat right here. When I stand next to MCs, this… — KRS-One Brother 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
People say I contradict myself because I come gangsta and teach at the same time. I don't want to be too much… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Self-management and self-control are the keys to advanced knowledge, and both are difficult to learn without a sense of your own cultural… — KRS-One Cultural identity Copy Share Image
I told Wayne to his face he was the dopest MC out. MC, not rapper. I told him to his face because… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
I'm not an executive. I can do it, I have the mind for it, but there's a life that you have to… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
I existed before the mainstream. Why would I join them? I watched the mainstream come up, and now I'm watching it collapse.… — KRS-One Collapse Copy Share Image
When I wake up in the morning, do I think I'm a role model? Yes. I'm not trying to have a pristine… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
