Hip-Hop is being spoken through spirituality... Meaning that you'll be able to listen to it spiritually for yourself. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is a worldwide culture. We have permeated every urban environment. — 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
Too many MC's take that word 'emcee' lightly; They can't Move a Crowd, not even slightly. — KRS-One 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 Copy Share Image
Rap is still an art, and no-one's from the Old School Cuz rap is still a brand-new tool — 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 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 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
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
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
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 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
When we say, 'Look, Donald Trump was a friend to hip hop back in the day; so was Bill Clinton,' It doesn't… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
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… — 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'm here to inspire young people to be part of the most magnificent culture on earth: hip-hop. — 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
Hate is indeed self-destructive, and this is what real Hip Hop must avoid at all cost. — 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
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
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
Hip is to know, it's a form of intelligence. To be hip is to be update and relevant. Hop is a form… — 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
There is no forgiveness, justice, or healing on any level when hate is involved. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
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 Image
