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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.Collection: Krs
When rap music needed to have a teacher, I became it.Collection: Krs
Before I came out, there was no such thing as a black conciousness movement. Kids on the street didn't know who Malcom X or Martin Luther King was until rap let them know.Collection: Krs
I don't even want my music on mainstream radio. They don't deserve it. They destroy careers.Collection: Krs
If the radio ever played my music, I would sue them. And they know it, which is why they don't play my music.Collection: Krs
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.Collection: Krs
There was no hip-hop before Afrika Bambaataa.Collection: Krs
Radio has always been just disgusting.Collection: Krs
The ones that sell the most aren't the ones that are remembered.Collection: Krs
I look at it like this: you may only sell 20,000 to 100,000 albums. But those albums are going to be heard by future doctors, lawyers, judges, firemen, etc. Those albums are being sold to the right people that move society. They're interested in what you have to say.Collection: Krs
Why isn't there any 50-year-old MCs killing it? I'm 46. Am I the only one? I can't wait to get to 50. I'm going to let everybody know it! I'm going to wear a shirt that says 'I'm 50.'Collection: Krs
I'm here to inspire young people to be part of the most magnificent culture on earth: hip-hop.Collection: Krs
The only solution to the education system is to find yourself.Collection: Krs
Religion and God are totally separate. Religion is created by government. God is God.Collection: Krs
No child is racist. A child is born, and then they go through the educational system.Collection: Krs
No one ever really talks about the punk-rock involvement in hip-hop, which influenced Afrika Bambaata.Collection: Krs
Rap is no longer a pastime; this is a worldwide profession.Collection: Krs
The idea of New Zealanders sounding like Americans is not it. You got to rhyme in your language, your accent.Collection: Krs
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.Collection: Krs
I don't need my fans to buy my music. My music is free, basically.Collection: Krs
Educate yourself, because this society is geared to have us hate each other. The longer we hate each other, the more we can't come together as humanity and look at the knuckleheads screwing it up for everybody.Collection: Krs
I'm the most humble rapper in the industry.Collection: Krs
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.Collection: Krs
I came from the heart of the ghetto - there ain't no suburbia in me.Collection: Krs
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.Collection: Krs
Every generation brings its own presentation of what hip-hop is to them.Collection: Krs
Every ten years, we get a new old school. In 1987, we thought 1977 was the best era in hip-hop. Here we are in 2007, and we're discussing '97/'98, when 50 Cent just started.Collection: Krs
Original hip hop manipulated technologies of all sorts; it was not manipulated by the technology itself.Collection: Krs
Young people may be stupid at times, but they respond to the truth when it is present, and for them, KRS-One is the truth!Collection: Krs
Jermaine Dupri is a b-boy, and he's dope.Collection: Krs
I flew everywhere for the first 10 years of my career, and I started to not like commercial transport. I just don't feel safe.Collection: Krs
How can you call yourself a cosmopolitan modern person if you don't know what hip-hop is?Collection: Krs
My theory is that hip-hop is the most advanced version of civilisation on earth, and we are here to usher the rest of humanity into the Age of Aquarius.Collection: Krs
Graffiti art brings you back to your human skills - your spirit and what your being is really about.Collection: Krs
In one sense, I wanted to study philosophy and theology, getting into the history of the Bible. I went through that for, like, two years while I took a desk job at Warners. It was very depressing but exhilarating at the same time.Collection: Krs
I kind of backed into rap music. I thought I was going to do comic books or graphic art.Collection: Krs
I don't sell millions of records. As a matter of fact, I'm not even interested in selling millions of records. I enjoy MCing. I make a decent amount of money. I can feed my kids. I keep a roof over my head. I don't have to sell a million records to maintain my lifestyle.Collection: Krs
For KRS-One, I have a specific sound - sparse drums and bass. I try to steer away from elaborate productions.Collection: Krs
DMX - everything this brother spits is hot. Everything. This is the heat right here. When I stand next to MCs, this is who I wanna stand next to.Collection: Krs
I am a poet, and I speak poetically.Collection: Krs