Krs 1 Quotes

#1. 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.

KRS-One

#2. Rap is like a set-up ... a lot of games,
A lot of suckers with colorful names.
'I'm so-and-so,' 'I'm this, I'm that.'
But they all just wick-wick-wack.

KRS-One

#3. I'm not saying I'm number 1, oh sorry I lied.. I'm number 1,2,3,4 and 5

KRS-One

#4. 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.

KRS-One

#5. I haven't come to tell you I've got juice
I just produce, create, innovate on a higher level

KRS-One

#6. Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.

KRS-One

#7. Portishead's production is just insane beats you would expect to be on a KRS-One album. But then there's this little white girl with an angel voice singing over it. It was a cool juxtaposition. I like 'It's A Fire.' That's a chill song with kind of a military drum thing going on, like a drummer boy.

Anders Holm

#8. As a conscious rap artist, you should not want to be in a gangster market. You should be trying to establish your own market, create a place where you can be yourself and make some money and feed your family.

KRS-One

#9. I've enjoyed much success. The IRS is always at my door, constantly.

KRS-One

#10. 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

KRS-One

#11. If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.

Talib Kweli

#12. Deepak Chopra, look at him. He's probably the most successful self-help guru in the world. I don't think he's struggling for any marketing or exposure. You've just got to know where your audience is.

KRS-One

#13. Yo Premier, why these rappers so soft?
They corny ass raps be makin me doze off.

KRS-One

#14. I feel like your city - with hip hop in particular, because we're always beating our chest and shouting where we're from - your city is just as influential as your parents. Even the grimy, hardcore gangster rap from New York - KRS-One and Wu Tang, the stuff acknowledges it.

Talib Kweli

#15. Believers of Jesus be denouncing Satan on every level,
But every Halloween they're dressin' like devils.

KRS-One

#16. If the society that we're talking about is a society that starts wars all over the world, degrades indigenous cultures, is misogynistic in itself, if that's the society we're talking about, then it's not a bad thing if hip-hop did degrade that society.

KRS-One

#17. Hip is the knowledge and Hop is the movement..

KRS-One

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

KRS-One

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

KRS-One

#20. Do you ever think about when you outta here?
Record deal and video, outta here!?
Mercedes Benz and Range Rover, outta here!?

KRS-One

#21. If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.

KRS-One

#22. It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.

KRS-One

#23. Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!

Angie Martinez

#24. You were put here to protect us.
But who protects us from you?

KRS-One

#25. The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.

KRS-One

#26. Don't you think it's time we thought about the future? Whether our children are gonna be winners or losers

KRS-One

#27. This album is moments that I haven't done before, like just my voice and drums. What people call a rant - but put it next to just a drumbeat, and it cuts to the level of, like, Run-D.M.C. or KRS-One.

Kanye West

#28. You know something, it's best no to have what you need
because then, you start looking for what you need
and make it what you need.

KRS-One

#29. I told Wayne to his face he was the dopest MC out. MC, not rapper. I told him to his face because I believe that, Wayne is nice! Wayne is bananas with his lyrics, with his whole delivery, with his whole thing. Lil Wayne is the man!

KRS-One

#30. 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.

KRS-One

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

KRS-One

#32. It's not that you don't make any money doing conscious rap music. You make a lot of money doing this, but if you're greedy and you're not satisfied with $500,000 a year, and you want $2 million a year, then you will suffer as a conscious rap artist.

KRS-One