Lawrence "Kris" Parker Quotes
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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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Believers of Jesus be denouncing Satan on every level, But every Halloween they're dressin' like devils.
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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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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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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 used to let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the last car of the Franklin Avenue shuttle
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Hip-Hop is being spoken through spirituality... Meaning that you'll be able to listen to it spiritually for yourself.
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Real men are real friends, showing their real commitment.
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Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Yo Premier, why these rappers so soft? They corny ass raps be makin me doze off.
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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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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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Rebel, renegade, must stay paid.
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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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Too many MC's take that word 'emcee' lightly; They can't Move a Crowd, not even slightly.
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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 grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self
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Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood