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KRS-One Speaks On The State Of Hip Hop
Wednesday - May 21, 2003
Deniece Mason
Being as though this is the sixth annual hip-hop appreciation week, who better than KRS-One to speak on such this as Eminem, the state of hip-hop and where he sees us in the future.
Preparing to release his new album “Kris Styles” on June 24th on Koch Entertainment and a new book on “Ruminations” in July, KRS-One proves that he’s got staying power in what he calls a “hop-hop culture”. “I presented the idea of hip-hop being a culture 10 years ago in pieces for Fresh, Source, XXL ... even when I was ethics editor at Blaze. Now the mainstream has accepted hip-hop as a culture. Harvard University is now doing a hip-hop archive. What we're moving toward is self-government. That's very scary to the entertainment industry, which just wants to use us as slaves: "Give me your talent, and I can fling you whatever bone I think you're worth. So this is the struggle”, he said during an interview with Billboard.
When asked about Eminem who has often been referred to as the “Eminem Factor” KRS-One said, “I praise Eminem's efforts, actually. I'm quite sure he gets a lot of criticism being white -- "the new Elvis," as he's called. But he is the sum of the hip-hop equation: Hip plus hop equals Eminem. This is going to do wonders for white youths' self-esteem and blacks' understanding of the white struggle. More hip-hop movies have to come out now that Hollywood sees it can make money on hip-hop without people getting shot in theaters.” When asked about the future of hip-hop he said, “Our day is coming. It's inevitable that the president in another five years will be a hip-hopper. The mayor of Chicago will be somebody who has grown up on N.W.A., Chuck D, even Lil' Kim and Foxy Brown. All of it will make sense then.”
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The Teacher speaks the truth.
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The Teacher speaks the truth.
sometimes
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The Teacher speaks the truth.
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The Teacher speaks the truth.
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KRS does this good, he's great at being overelaborate when stating the obvious or exagerating it
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At least it's not that "white's are ruining rap/hip-hop" shit that people jump on...
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The Teacher speaks the truth.
Yep, yep, yep totally agree with him....and you guys ;)
Wouldnt it be excellent when one day someone really powerful in the community....whether it is the head of you school / college / uni / your boss or even the head of police grew up listening to the same music you did like PE, NWA, BDP,KRS1 all that conscious , sometimes angry, political hiphop.
damn what a thought!