KRS-One
Musician
1965-08-20
Books by KRS-One
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Quotes by KRS-One
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I came from the heart of the ghetto - there ain't no suburbia in me.
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The Temple of Hip-Hop makes sure that we don't just approach hip-hop just through music or through rap. We approach the totality of hip-hop.
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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.
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When we say, 'Look, Donald Trump was a friend to hip hop back in the day; so was Bill Clinton,' It doesn't mean that because he was a friend to hip hop back in the day, that the same Bill Clinton wasn't at the lead of this mass incarceration of African Americans today.
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The only time you had blacks, whites, and Latinos jamming together was in hip-hop. It's an unsung history.
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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!
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Illiteracy causes violence. If you don't have enough words in your vocabulary, you can't even seek your way out of a situation.
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High respect goes out to our mothers, our single mothers. This is why today the real community uplifts femininity and holds womanhood above, not equal to, masculinity.
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