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Are you tired of lyrical liars, passing fliers, Wannabe MC's, but really good triers, Tripping over mic cords, getting you bored, A total fraud, this kind of thing I can't afford!

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KRS-One
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: August 20
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Just black executives have a bias against older artists. We don't respect our elders. That's not because of white people. That's because of black leadership. We just have that problem, and it's something that I am going to spend the rest of my life trying to conquer.
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If you're true to the upliftment of people and the unity of people, raising the self-worth of people, then you live within your means. But the problem is that we're looking at the grass on the other side, saying, That's greener. I want to be in the thug market, but I want to be a conscious rap artist. It doesn't work like that.
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Educate yourself make your world view bigger, visualize wealth, and put yourself in the picture
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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.
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Rebel, renegade, must stay paid.
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Teach the student what needs to be taught. 'Cause black and white kids both take shorts When one doesn't know about the other one's culture, Ignorance swoops down like a vulture.
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It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.
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The true word of God is written in our heart.
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I make intelligence cool. I make spirituality cool. If we can make one's devotion to God cool, then I think I did a great thing. I can rest in peace.
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Believers of Jesus be denouncing Satan on every level, But every Halloween they're dressin' like devils.
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Hip is the knowledge and Hop is the movement.
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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
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Stop the negativity and control our creativity
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If we have power to degrade an entire society, then we also have the power to uplift it.
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I'd rather make one righteous dollar on my level Than make a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil.
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Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.
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I know that I'm freer as a hip-hopper than as an executive. Even as a black man, I enjoy more freedom as a hip-hopper than as a black man. That, s controversial to say, but it's the truth.
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Rap is still an art, and no-one's from the Old School Cuz rap is still a brand-new tool
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