KRS-One Quotes

KRS-One
KRS-One
American Musician
Born: Aug 20, 1965
Hip-Hop Me Music People You Yourself
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When you know your self-worth, and you read and you ask questions and you study and you travel, you become free. KRS-One
You Travel Free Become Study Know Read Self-Worth Questions Ask Your
Hip hop is a human skill, and the practice of real hip hop should remind us of our humanity. KRS-One
Humanity Practice Our Hop Remind Hip Hip-Hop Real Human Us Skill Should
Self-management and self-control are the keys to advanced knowledge, and both are difficult to learn without a sense of your own cultural identity. KRS-One
Knowledge Own Sense Difficult Keys Both Advanced Self-Control Identity Learn Without Cultural Your
I came from the heart of the ghetto - there ain't no suburbia in me. KRS-One
Me Heart Ghetto Came Suburbia
If you don't know hip-hop, at least a little bit of it, you can't even call yourself an American. KRS-One
You Yourself Bit Know Call Hip-Hop Least American Little Little Bit Even
Hip Hop is an extension of our very being, and so the study of Hip Hop is the study of self-expression leading to the study of one's true self. KRS-One
Our Hop Self True Study Leading Self-Expression True Self Hip Hip-Hop Very Being Extension
It seems like racism in the United States is overflowing. KRS-One
Racism States Seems Like Overflowing United United States
The ones that sell the most aren't the ones that are remembered. KRS-One
Remembered Most Sell
When you know the law, you're above the law. When you break the law, you're under the law. KRS-One
You Law Above Know Break
You must have an opinion about yourself, some kind of meaning to yourself, a purpose, if you are really going to learn anything or develop into that which you desire to be. KRS-One
You Yourself Kind Must Some About Purpose Develop Learn Opinion Going Anything Which Meaning Really Desire
Even with so many artists using auto-tune, there's still a growing group of artists rising up and going in the opposite direction, making music that's real and fresh. And those cats are getting back to the basics without auto-tune. And a lot of those cats are packing out venues without getting played on the radio! KRS-One
Music Cats Group Back Those Out Rising Direction Venues Without Fresh Making Real Still Opposite Opposite Direction Lot Up Getting Going Artists Packing Radio Many Using Even Growing Played Basics
People say I contradict myself because I come gangsta and teach at the same time. I don't want to be too much on either side, but I do want to speak to all audiences. KRS-One
Time Myself People Speak Too Much Gangsta Too Side Say People Say Come Because Audiences Contradict Same Same Time Want Either Much Teach
When you're not attached to anything, nothing can harm you. When people become attached, they can be harmed. I know this, so I don't attach myself to anything, really. KRS-One
Myself You People Become Nothing Attach Attached Know Anything Really Harm Harmed
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
Work You Game Yourself Seek Something Know Going Against Plan Game Plan Whole
The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise. KRS-One
People Cause Black Important Single Lesson Demise Most Important Lesson Learned
It's always baffled me why BET looks the way it does. This is Black Entertainment Television. Why are we up there, then, looking like idiots? It's because black people are marketing black people like that. KRS-One
Me Entertainment People Black Looking Way Marketing Television Bet Baffled Like Looks Because Does Idiots Always Up Then Why
I think that Napster is the greatest invention since sliced bread. Napster, to me, is liberation and freedom for artists. KRS-One
Freedom Me Invention Think Sliced Liberation Since Napster Greatest Artists Bread
I have to put a business model together because certain businesses are approaching me as a legend, as if I'm on my way out. Same goes for the way I get presented on the VH1 Hip Hop Honors and BET. I get lifetime achievement awards because of who I am and what I've done, but they want to put me in a place, as if I'm on my way out. KRS-One
Me Achievement Business Together Approaching Legend Honors Way Out Hop Bet Lifetime Put Because Am Hip Hip-Hop Model Get Same Goes Done Want Place Certain Business Model Who Businesses Awards Presented
Many of us were raised without a father, and the subject of deadbeat dads hits home in a lot of areas. Most of all, doing a song about being a father to your daughter flies straight in the face of the argument that says hip-hop is misogynistic. KRS-One
Home Song Father Face Daughter Argument Says About Area Most Without Hip-Hop Doing Were Subject Lot Hits Being Straight Us Your Flies Many Dads Raised
This is the problem with the United States: there's no leadership. A leader would say, 'Police brutality is an oxymoron. There are no brutal police. The minute you become brutal you're no longer police.' So, what, we're not dealing with police. We're dealing with a federally authorized gang. KRS-One
Leadership You Problem Police Leader Become Say States Would Minute Brutal Brutality Longer Dealing Authorized Oxymoron The Problem With Gang United United States
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 keep the culture together long enough for it to remain everything that we thought it could be when I was coming up. KRS-One
Together Culture Thought Long Honestly Enough Everything Earth Embodiment Physical Only Purpose Remain Could Know Hip-Hop Coming Up Keep Now Here
For me, I see myself as a role model because, everything I do, there is a person somewhere who needs to hear me spread a message of non-violent conflict resolution. KRS-One
Myself Needs Me Conflict Somewhere Everything See Message Because Non-Violent Spread Hear Model Role Person Role Model Who Resolution
When I was about 15 years old, I began to embark on an MC career but also to study philosophy with an emphasis on theology. KRS-One
Old Philosophy Embark About Study Emphasis Also Years Began Theology Career
I do have a desire to bring a spiritual tone to the hip-hop community, which may force me to open a facility that teaches spiritual principles through the language of hip-hop culture. KRS-One
Spiritual Me Culture Language Community Facility Through Open Force Principles Hip-Hop May Which Teaches Tone Bring Desire
I existed before the mainstream. Why would I join them? I watched the mainstream come up, and now I'm watching it collapse. I don't want to be a part of that. KRS-One
Before Collapse Would Join Part Mainstream Come Existed Up Want Them Now Why Watched Watching
There was no hip-hop before Afrika Bambaataa. KRS-One
Before Hip-Hop
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