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KRS-One Attacks
« on: July 09, 2002, 06:44:34 AM »
On a sweltering NYC summer day the South Bronx's self-proclaimed "teacher," KRS-One, was spewing some of his own heat in the Hammerstein Ballroom. He berated rapper Nelly, Hip-Hop's magazines such as The Source, XXL and VIBE, as well as Universal Records; entities which, according to the blastmaster, have all contributed to the continual deterioration of this culture.

"He [Nelly] needs street credibility bad," KRS said, who wore a yellow shirt and khaki pants. "He knows it, Universal knows it and his management knows it. Battle KRS for street credibility. You know how much heart it takes to battle KRS? I respect Nelly's heart for that because I'm going to smash him against the wall like a mosquito."

The KRS/Nelly beef is one of a number of verbal quarrels that Hip-Hop has recently endured. Most of them (Jay-Z versus Nas, Nas versus Cormega) have been commonly viewed as equal competitors going head-to-head, but in this case, the public has often been found scratching their noggins. KRS continued to tarnish the St. Louis native's image, but with only the "facts."

"You selling 10 million records to a large white audience. But all you going to say on this record [Nellyville] is 'f*ck 40 acres and a mule give me 40 acres and a pool,'" KRS said in disgust. "Disrespect Malcolm X, disrespect Martin Luther King . . . the lifetime work of Marcus Garvey (reparations) wiped out on a 10 million-selling album."

KRS proceeded in ridiculing Missouri's discarded son and his antics. From calling him a "f*cking idiot" to saying Funkmaster Flex and Hot 97 played themselves by letting him on air to rant KRS was at his "arrogant" best.

He then moved onto criticize urban music's top three print media outlets-The Source, XXL and VIBE.

"KRS started that magazine [The Source]," he said after he laid all three glossies on the ground. "I paid for their first posters, first commercials. I got receipts."

After passing on a possible partnership in the magazine-due to the lack of $75,000-KRS said he was aghast when TLC made the cover.

"Not that TLC is not Hip-Hop but you're The Source!" he bellowed. "Have you no integrity? No they don't. Thank God for Kim Osorio [the magazine's new top editor]. Hopefully she'll turn this magazine around."

According to KRS, XXL already pronounced the winner of his battle with Nelly by printing "Nelly: His hits reign supreme over nearly everyone," a blatant stab at his moniker, on their August cover. As he opened the Hip-Hop publication he quickly pointed to the "eye candy" portion.

"This is Hip-Hop on a higher level?" he asked as sweat beads traveled down his face. "This reduces the black man to a pimp and the black woman to a whore."

He transferred his loathing for Hip-Hop's soft-porn periodical to VIBE; the urban tome that recently won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence (beating out The New Yorker, among other respected publications).

"You calling a 10 million-selling artist a 'nursery rhyme rapper." Really?" he pondered as he pointed at VIBE's August issue. "And this is Quincy Jones' magazine? Matter of fact Quincy you getting paid off of this bullsh*t."

As the discussion dwindled towards its end, KRS focused on a rapper's minimum wage ($2.00 per record sold), an idea formulated by his group, The Temple of Hip-Hop. According to his calculations, as Nelly brags about his bank account, he's only receiving 35 cents a record while he is getting two dollars an album.

"Look at the ignorance!" he yelled, poking frantically at The Source.

KRS-One's Spiritual Minded is in stores now.

Also, make sure to check out SOHH this Friday (7.12) when our Managing Editor, Giselle Wasfie, kicks off her "Anti-KRS Campaign" with a merciless Op Ed that proves the Blastmaster has lost his mind and should be sequestered on an island.



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Re: KRS-One Attacks
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2002, 06:55:52 AM »
i think its good krs is pointing out some of the bullshit these magazines print about the hip-hop culture
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Re: KRS-One Attacks
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2002, 07:43:28 AM »
lol
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Re: KRS-One Attacks
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2002, 09:08:40 AM »
krs was one of the first people i heard say fuck the source in a song...hes real with his
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Re: KRS-One Attacks
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2002, 04:52:40 PM »
KRS-One is just craving attention after dropping a shitty album.  He's one of the best emcees ever.  What the hell does he have to gain from beating Nelly in a battle?  He doesn't gain any "street cred.".  He only gets more publicity from this.  He's not going to change the way hip-hop is going, so he should just shut up and go back to the lab and drop a dope album.  Guys like Rakim aren't going out doing interviews and dissin' other "commercial" artists to save so-called real hip-hop like Nas and KRS are.  He's just laying back and getting ready to drop a masterpiece.  He's knows that he should just let his music do the talking.  Oh My God is going to help hip hop more than anything KRS is doing now.
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Re: KRS-One Attacks
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2002, 06:09:32 PM »
Thanks 4 that. It was a good read.
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