Lawrence "Kris" Parker Quotes
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You were put here to protect us. But who protects us from you?
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If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.
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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.
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Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.
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Trust in God, that's where the crown is at. It's not in what you get, it's what happens after that.
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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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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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You can't expect to be on MTV and critique George Bush. You can't expect to be on BET or the cover of 'The Source' advocating Jesus Christ or Buddha or Hindu Krishna or Moses. As a conscious rap artist, you have to play in the arena that you're supposed to be in. What is that arena? That arena is the college market. The conscious rap artist woos the college market, even though the college market is the wildest, most sexed-out, drug-driven market in the country, possibly the world.
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Too many MC's take that word 'emcee' lightly; They can't Move a Crowd, not even slightly.
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Yo Premier, why these rappers so soft? They corny ass raps be makin me doze off.
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The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.
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I grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self
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The whole world is conscious. It's just that we become conscious at times, and you become conscious when you lose a parent, or just a loved one, period - a wife, a brother, you know. You wake up and say, "Man, it's real. I don't need this pimp gangster stuff anymore, I need something with a little more substance." And there is marketing for that.
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Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood
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I think music should be free. I think all communication should be free. I think people should respect artists, and there should be a certain respect for artists who give their music away for free. If your music winds up on Napster and you approve of it, then the person downloading your music should at least go to your concert, should at least purchase your songs.
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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.
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I haven't come to tell you I've got juice I just produce, create, innovate on a higher level
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Hip is the knowledge and Hop is the movement.
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Black people are just constantly immature in their thinking, undisciplined, and we suffer as a people. This is not about race in the sense that black people got to get something better than whites or Latinos or Asians. This is just basically that we keep complaining about what we don't have and what we can't do, and then, when we get in positions to do stuff, we fight amongst ourselves like savages.
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Take a look at the police and how they treat you, Take a look at these corporations that cheat you. Democrats and Republicans are all see-through. Now we votin for the lesser of two evils... Man, don't let 'em deceive you. This is an autocracy, not a democracy, But to call this a democracy without mock interest In the laws of society? That's called hypocrisy.
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The true word of God is written in our heart.
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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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Rap is still an art, and no-one's from the Old School Cuz rap is still a brand-new tool