Lawrence "Kris" Parker Quotes
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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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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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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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If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.
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Real men are real friends, showing their real commitment.
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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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Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.
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I break an emcee off proper Yo don't check me, Ask your Moms and Pops, Yo they respect me, But here you stand, tryin' to get yours, but gettin' nothin' You probably can't spell "Boogie Down" or "Productions"
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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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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.
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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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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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Yo Premier, why these rappers so soft? They corny ass raps be makin me doze off.
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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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I'm not an executive. I can do it, I have the mind for it, but there's a life that you have to lead, and you have to give up your creative freedom. That's what I don't want to give up.
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Rebel, renegade, must stay paid.
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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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I grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self
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Hip-hop as a culture itself goes through stages. It grows - it's breathing, living. I've noticed that we usually start off conscious, then we wind up very highly sexual, and then we thug it out. Then things get a little funny again, with comedy and that kind of thing.
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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!
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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 haven't come to tell you I've got juice I just produce, create, innovate on a higher level
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Educate yourself make your world view bigger, visualize wealth, and put yourself in the picture