Lawrence "Kris" Parker Quotes
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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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I am the manifestation of study, NOT the manifestation of money. Therefore, I advance through thought, NOT what's manufactured and bought.
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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.
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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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Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.
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If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.
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You sleep with a man, that's your husband. So make sure before you lay down, you love him.
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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
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There's a Universe Instrument, where we apply Hip-Hop to astronomy, and we flush out the chemistry of Hip-Hop. We also flushed out the astronomy, to see where Hip-Hop is read in the stars.
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Do you ever think about when you outta here? Record deal and video, outta here!? Mercedes Benz and Range Rover, outta here!?
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I'm not saying I'm number 1, oh sorry I lied.. I'm number 1,2,3,4 and 5
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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.
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It's not about a salary, it's all about reality.
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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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You got to have style, and learn to be original.
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If I were to critique myself - step out of KRS objectively and look at him - I would say that KRS has introduced the concept of being hip-hop, not just doing it. The concept of rap as something we do, while hip-hop is something we live. The concept of living a culture. Don't just look at hip-hop as rap music, see it as a culture.
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So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live.
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I used to let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the last car of the Franklin Avenue shuttle
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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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Kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent
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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.
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There could never really be justice on stolen land.
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We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look at every Martin Luther King Boulevard out here, and it's a crack block. 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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I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our black people culture, and it's the name of our identity and consciousness. I think hip-hop is not a product, but a culture. I think rap is a product, but when hip-hop becomes a product, that's slavery, because you're talking about people's souls. To me, that's the biggest problem.