KRS-One Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

Kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent

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

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

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

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

There could never really be justice on stolen land.

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.

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

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.

The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop

Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live

Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.

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

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

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

Stop the negativity and control our creativity

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

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.

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.".

The true word of God is written in our heart.