KRS-One Quotes About Rap

Quotes about: Rap

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

  KRS-One

  Uplifting, Rap, People

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

  KRS-One

  Rap, Hip Hop, Hips

  Song: 9 Elements, Album: Kristyles, 2003

• 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

• Are you tired of lyrical liars, passing fliers,
  Wannabe MC's, but really good triers,
  Tripping over mic cords, getting you bored,
  A total fraud, this kind of thing I can't afford!

  KRS-One

  Liars, Rap, Tired

  Song: Mortal Thought, Album: Return of the Boom Bap, 1993

• 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

• Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Ignorance, Hip Hop

• 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

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

  KRS-One

  Rap, Hip Hop, Style

  Song: My Philosophy

• Do you ever think about when you outta here?
  Record deal and video, outta here!?
  Mercedes Benz and Range Rover, outta here!?

  KRS-One

  Rap, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Song: Outta Here, Album: Return of the Boom Bap, 1993

• You were put here to protect us.
  But who protects us from you?

  KRS-One

  Rap, Hip Hop, African American

  Song: Who Protects Us from You?, Album: Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip Hop (BDP)

• I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of the culture, and it's the name of the identity and consciousness. I think hip-hop is not a product, but a culture. I think rap is a product, but when hip-hop becomes a product, that's slavery, because you're talking about people's souls.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Thinking, Soul

  Source: www.avclub.com

• If you're true to the upliftment of people and the unity of people, raising the self-worth of people, then you live within your means. But the problem is that we're looking at the grass on the other side, saying, "That's greener. I want to be in the thug market, but I want to be a conscious rap artist." It doesn't work like that.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Mean, Thug

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

• You can't expect to be on MTV and critique George Bush. You can't expect to be on BET or the cover of 'The Source' advocating Jesus Christ or Buddha or Hindu Krishna or Moses. As a conscious rap artist, you have to play in the arena that you're supposed to be in. What is that arena? That arena is the college market. The conscious rap artist woos the college market, even though the college market is the wildest, most sexed-out, drug-driven market in the country, possibly the world.

  KRS-One

  Country, Jesus, Rap

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

• ...Cops just surrounding me with pistols everywhere.
  They put me in the backseat of their car handcuffed,
  Pushed out them chests like they're big rough and tough.
  A cop come and said 'You'll never sell your guns now.'
  I said 'It doesn't matter, you'll sell them anyhow.
  You take the guns from me, you sell them for a fee;
  Anyway you put it, they'll get in the city!'

  KRS-One

  Rap, Gun, Cities

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

  KRS-One

  Rap, Reality, Hip Hop

  Song: My Philosophy

• Believers of Jesus be denouncing Satan on every level,
  But every Halloween they're dressin' like devils.

  KRS-One

  Jesus, Halloween, Rap

  Song: Higher Level

• Too many MC's take that word 'emcee' lightly;
  They can't Move a Crowd, not even slightly.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Moving, Hip Hop

  Song: MC's Act Like They Don't Know, Album: KRS-One

• 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 they all just wick-wick-wack.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Games, Names

• Yo Premier, why these rappers so soft?
  They corny ass raps be makin me doze off.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Hip Hop, Corny

  Song: Criminal Minded '08

• Teach the student what needs to be taught.
  'Cause black and white kids both take shorts
  When one doesn't know about the other one's culture,
  Ignorance swoops down like a vulture.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Kids, Ignorance

  Song: You Must Learn

• Rebel, renegade, must stay paid.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Hip Hop, Rebel

  Song: I'm Still Nr. 1

• Rap is still an art, and no-one's from the Old School
  Cuz rap is still a brand-new tool

  KRS-One

  Art, Rap, School

• I used to let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the last car of the Franklin Avenue shuttle

  KRS-One

  Rap, Car, Lasts

  Song: My Life, Album: Life, 2006

• So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Thinking, Hip Hop

• As a conscious rap artist, you should not want to be in a gangster market. You should be trying to establish your own market, create a place where you can be yourself and make some money and feed your family.

  KRS-One

  Being Yourself, Rap, Artist

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

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