KRS-One Quotes

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• I am the manifestation of study,
  NOT the manifestation of money.
  Therefore, I advance through thought,
  NOT what's manufactured and bought.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Hip Hop, Study

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• Educate yourself make your world view bigger, visualize wealth, and put yourself in the picture

  KRS-One

  Views, World, Wealth

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• Hip is to know, it's a form of intelligence. To be hip is to be update and relevant. Hop is a form of movement, you can't just observe a hop, you gotta hop up and do it. Hip and hop is more than music
  Hip is the Knowledge, hop is the Movement. Hip and Hop is Intelligent movement

  KRS-One

  Intelligent, Movement, Updates

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• 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

  KRS-One

  Eye, Brain, Knows

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• Take a look at the police and how they treat you,
  Take a look at these corporations that cheat you.
  Democrats and Republicans are all see-through.
  Now we votin for the lesser of two evils...
  Man, don't let 'em deceive you.
  This is an autocracy, not a democracy,
  But to call this a democracy without mock interest
  In the laws of society? That's called hypocrisy.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Men, Law

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• Kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent

  KRS-One

  Teacher, Kings, Intelligent

  Song: Criminal Minded

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• If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.

  KRS-One

  Uplifting, Hip Hop, Mind

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• I grew up in them streets, like everyone else
  but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self

  KRS-One

  Self, Drug, Grew Up

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• Trust in God, that's where the crown is at. It's not in what you get, it's what happens after that.

  KRS-One

  Crowns, Trust In God, Happens

  Song: Trust, Album: Spiritual Minded

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• Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal,
  MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.

  KRS-One

  Uplifting, Rap, People

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• Black people are just constantly immature in their thinking, undisciplined, and we suffer as a people. This is not about race in the sense that black people got to get something better than whites or Latinos or Asians. This is just basically that we keep complaining about what we don't have and what we can't do, and then, when we get in positions to do stuff, we fight amongst ourselves like savages.

  KRS-One

  Fighting, Thinking, Race

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• There could never really be justice on stolen land.

  KRS-One

  Land, Justice, Stolen

  Song: Sound of da Police, Album: Return of the Boom Bap, 1993

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• If we have power to degrade an entire society, then we also have the power to uplift it.

  KRS-One

  Uplifting, Degrade, Ifs

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• When I say hip-hoppers, I mean black, white, Asian, Latino, Chicano, everybody. Everybody. Hip-hop has united all races. Hip-hop has formed a platform for all people, religions, and occupations to meet on something. We all have a platform to meet on now, due to hip-hop. That, to me, is beyond music. That is just a brilliant, brilliant thing.

  KRS-One

  Mean, White, Race

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop

  KRS-One

  Being Yourself, Essence, Hip Hop

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• Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live

  KRS-One

  Rap, Hip Hop, Hips

  Song: 9 Elements, Album: Kristyles, 2003

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• Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Ignorance, Hip Hop

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• Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.

  KRS-One

  Love You, Love Yourself, Expression

  Song: 1st Quarter The Commentary, Album: I Got Next, 1997

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• I'd rather make one righteous dollar on my level
  Than make a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Hip Hop, Devil

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• You got to have style, and learn to be original.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Hip Hop, Style

  Song: My Philosophy

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• Stop the negativity and control our creativity

  KRS-One

  Creativity, Negativity

  Song: 2nd Quarter - Free Throws, Album: I Got Next, 1997

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• It's not about a salary, it's all about reality.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Reality, Hip Hop

  Song: My Philosophy

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• The true word of God is written in our heart.

  KRS-One

  Heart, Word Of God, True Words

  Song: Ain't Ready, Album: Spiritual Minded

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• No [other rappers are on my level], none of them. Here, let me put it like this in the sky, there are a million stars, but when the sun appears, you see none of them. I am the sun.

  KRS-One

  Stars, Rapper, Sky

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• 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, and that, when you say "hip-hop," it's synonymous with rap. That when you say "hip-hop," you should be thinking about breakdancing, graffiti art, or MCing - which is the proper name for rap - DJing, beat-boxing, language, fashion, knowledge, trade. You should be thinking about a culture when you say, "hip-hop.".

  KRS-One

  Fashion, Art, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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