Yo Premier, why these rappers so soft? They corny ass raps be makin me doze off. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
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
If we have power to degrade an entire society, then we also have the power to uplift it. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
No child is racist. A child is born, and then they go through the educational system. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Every ghetto kid that walks the earth can see something in KRS-One that reminds him of himself. — KRS-One Earth Copy Share Image
Young people may be stupid at times, but they respond to the truth when it is present, and for them, KRS-One is… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Hip hop is a human skill, and the practice of real hip hop should remind us of our humanity. — KRS-One Hip hop 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 Hip hop Copy Share Image
No [other rappers are on my level], none of them. Here, let me put it like this in the sky, there are… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Teach the student what needs to be taught. 'Cause black and white kids both take shorts When one doesn't know about the… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
High respect goes out to our mothers, our single mothers. This is why today the real community uplifts femininity and holds womanhood… — KRS-One Community Copy Share Image
I am the manifestation of study, NOT the manifestation of money. Therefore, I advance through thought, NOT what's manufactured and bought. — KRS-One Education Copy Share Image
Are you tired of lyrical liars, passing fliers, Wannabe MC's, but really good triers, Tripping over mic cords, getting you bored, A… — KRS-One Bored Copy Share Image
There's no distinction. A teacher is a preacher. The teachers in public schools are preachers, and the preachers in church are teachers. — KRS-One Church Copy Share Image
I am a youth minister, ordained by the Riverside Church in upper New York. But to declare myself a minister and begin… — KRS-One Bible Copy Share Image
The single most important contribution that I can offer, the strengthening of people's spirit and soul, the strengthening of families, the unity… — KRS-One Children 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
We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look… — KRS-One Art 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
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 African american Copy Share Image
I look at it like this: you may only sell 20,000 to 100,000 albums. But those albums are going to be heard… — KRS-One Future Copy Share Image
If you're true to the upliftment of people and the unity of people, raising the self-worth of people, then you live within… — KRS-One Art Copy Share Image
I have to put a business model together because certain businesses are approaching me as a legend, as if I'm on my… — KRS-One Achievement Copy Share Image
The only time you had blacks, whites, and Latinos jamming together was in hip-hop. It's an unsung history. — KRS-One Hip hop Copy Share Image
The idea of New Zealanders sounding like Americans is not it. You got to rhyme in your language, your accent. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
The Temple of HipHop has declared HipHop its own religion. We believe HipHop is divine. HipHop proves the existence of God. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
I'm hoping to make the kind of difference in my lifetime that allows me to be remembered positively. — KRS-One Hope Copy Share Image
I'd rather make one righteous dollar on my level Than make a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil. — KRS-One Devil Copy Share Image
Where I go, rap goes. Rap is like my dog; it's like my little pet. And where I go, I lead my… — KRS-One Dog Copy Share Image
Original hip hop manipulated technologies of all sorts; it was not manipulated by the technology itself. — KRS-One Hip hop Copy Share Image
I would say my flow is Aboriginal. Look at my face, nose, lips, and eyes. — KRS-One Aboriginal 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 Acting 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
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
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
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