He didn’t get too deep and he definitely did not get lost…he understood the assignment from day one and NEVER lost sight of it! He stayed true to truth!
Exactly, I was like wtf is 50 talking abt ... getting lost .. and TOO deep. I mean his stage name is KRS One which stands for knowledge reigns supreme over nearly everyone
KRS, taught me about our culture more than I learned in school. I became a teen counselor and let my students listen to him. They also were enlightened.
The head nod is because people are listening to the lyrics. With all that bouncing around many of them have no idea what those rappers are even saying.
Real talk I was meditating on this the other day within my own life. Im 42 years old but when I was 18 until about 32 my main focus in life was chasing money and doing everything else that comea with the capitalist mindset. Around 2012 i started learning some deeper knowledge that took me ultimately on a spiritual path. Once i figured some fundamentals out about what this place possibly is and what we as spiritual beings could be trying to achieve here money stopped being the primary focus in life for me. I feel most people who have found hard truths here can relate to this.
Word Up. Kinda like my man Planet A.S.I.A. Planet (All) (Started) (In) (Africa). And then RIP to my man GURU. "Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal". KRS is that man though!
Seen KRS once i still feel enlightened by his words after many years. Some artists give you fun for a night, but some nights change you for a lifetime. 50 should know there's a need for both types of artists.
Obviously my opinion but we need more KRS types of artists in the game. My filter for my favorite artists are those with a message: Gil Scott Heron, Eyedea, Brother Ali, Rakim, Immortal Technique etc.
@a What he says isn't wrong. Rap is also a business. If you are not catering to your audience, you WILL fail. There are many conscious, deep artists out there that have their own niche and doing well enough. However, if you want to be on top you can't get too deep with the messages. They can still be there but it can't be too political, too "woke" so to speak. What you'll end up with is a divide with people who do not agree and those who agree. Then on top of that some won't listen often anymore. Contrary to what you think, people do not want to be constantly depressed or talked at. Sometimes we just want to have fun
@@rushshady It can't be too ignorant either because you'll end up with demographic of unintelligent buffoons who only look for surface level material where they don't have to think. IT'S ALL ABOUT BALANCE......
KRS 1 , Busta Rhymes , Sticky Fingers , Red Man , Slick Rick and Last but definitely not least ,Big Pun . That is THE !! PERFECT ELITE RAP ARTIST’S No one Would be able to Defeat them together as a unit
KRS carried the whole weight of the Buggy Down (Bronx, N.Y. (Mecca of Rap)) on his shoulders when Brooklyn and Queens were putting out legends every summer.
He has been hot, repeatedly heated and will still blow the roof off your top. So many rappers don't like going out to perform after him cuz he will move the crowd. Mad love to krs
FACT bro. Never forgot seeing Kris in Baltimore for Morgan State Homecoming back in the 90's. He had everyone in the crowd hyped and singing all his lyrics. Amazing stage presence
This why 50 is on the way he is and never folded. Cause he has a solid core solid root solid foundation. For him to say Krs1 is one of his top hip hop artist says a lot about him . 🥇Krs1 is top 5 battle rappers of all time 💯
With the obsession of his early work and the get rich or die trying project 50 cent's music career hasn't been all of what it's cracked up to be. Most of his projects were tethered off of group's like the lox's and dip set so that's why it wasn't really clicking in with most east coast listener's. He even admitted to spending alot on promoting certain projects that went to mainstream station's because of a song that was a hit but the rest of the album was trash so it didn't sale the way he wanted to sale and it started looking like he wasn't putting effort into his music. 50 is great promoting his projects as far as his business aspects but his music career is over and really has been over since the massacre album.
@Stone Loc have you been living under a rock,50 been in business for years and not music,even he said,that end line on your comment ,your talking like 50s poppin in the charts to this day,and before you say it,we know 50 and game had issues.
@@lengwei4864 50 cent's career really didn't start flourishing until after the movie. Around that time he did the vitamin water and sneaker deal and his music was trash other than some singles that were considered hits the rest of the album was garbage so he wasn't selling like you want to believe he even admitted to that in previous interview's
@@lengwei4864 If you read my early comments I was referring to his music career not business dealings but you keep going back to some kind of business stuff that's irrelevant from his music which is a flop nowadays.
KRS one gave my block a shout-out when he was on fire!!! We lost it when we heard it. Casanova taking over!!!! It's deep that line... We was that block back in the 80s and 90s.
Which is why he was able to succeed because instead of being stubborn like most from the east he catered to the whole country and the 🌎 took notice end result his 1st 2 albums sell 20mil
@@DizoDixon Indeed. I’m from Cali, but live in Brooklyn when I was young, that’s where my love of hip hop was cultivated back in the early 80s. I’ve been living in the south for 25 years so my ear and love of hip hop is tri-coastal. Some artists only give me what I need regionally, but there are some that can do it all. I appreciate both the diversity and those that stay rooted.
@@I_Shit_on_your_shit_pointbingo! And that's what gets the whole world. They don't think! They just reach and get caught by the hook... and there's a reason it's literally called a "hook." It's all brainwashing. Most people listening to music don't even understand the true power or nature of music, or that it's used to cast spells over their minds. Fifty understands this, any good artist understands it's a spell they're crafting, and it's then cast over the minds of people in order to seduce them. Now, that will get lost on many.
@@wills242 assume I live in south Florida..assume I been down here my whole life..assume I know what I'm talking about..assume that the people I'm talking about is my people. My culture
"Because a nigga wear kufi, it don't mean that he nice/ because you dont understand him, it dont mean that he's bright/ it just means that you don't understand all the bullshit that he writes" - Jay z
It’s a time for teaching and it’s a time for war 💪🏽 The South came with action not just teaching we executed it and took hiphop to the next level! Who you think started range independent label trend? New Yorkers talked good but then went and signed to a corporate label with no freedom. KRS ONE was good but that’s what really took him out the limelight.
@@Royalt1981 man stop it Too Short and them bay niggas been doing independent shit . Tech 9 mid west independent . Black moon duck down entertainment was independent. .what action you talking bout man cut it out I ain't heard of no south hip hop beef where nothing got dropped .if NY didn't pioneer the shit you wouldn't have no hip hop foh
An artist can not get lost in teaching people if that was or becane his/her intent with their artistic tools. What KRS-1 evolved into is a Hip Hop M.C. who is true to himself & the representation of his people in that he doesn't recite degrading & toxic b.s. in his rhymes about using drugs, materialism, promiscuity or violence instead he's opted to speak on truth, life, health, politics that affect us all, reality, spirituality, God, poverty, wealth, slavery, prison complex & knowledge, wisdom.& understanding is gained from that message he shares.
Here here, I think 50- mad cause he not on anyone Top 10 but KRS 1 always in the mention.. Then again 50 talks a lot of trash just to keep hum self relevant.
KRS is an educator he has never sold out to conform to the new norms ,the message will get lost if he changes up his style and music because no one’s going to pay attention to the lyrics now a days if you have a hot beat even though the lyrics are shitty the people will dance to it
You cant perform on a white man stage in front of cameras to be known to the world unless you sell out champ so yes he sold out just not again again like others
Let's get real, Krs did not get lost in teaching. That's what he was called to do, and he's the best at it. That's the problem with hip hop today. No one is teaching anybody anything, except how to be gangster and pop pills.
I lived in Jamaica Queens most of my life, and he made it hard for brothers like me to hang out at Yankee stadium. But I still loved his music thru it all.
This is NOT the NY history I observed growing up in the 80s /early 90s. In the 80s , NY cats were KNOWN for dancing. When NY cats came down here to Ga. to visit family or for school, they used to rock the house at the house jams. The gangster s*"* from 96 til now halted all fun from alot of the Millennials. Hell, the first group I saw who had dancers was Whodini at Freshfest! Aren't they from NY? What about saltnpepa who had KidnPlay as dancers? Aren't they from NY? Wasn't Defjam comedy filmed in NY? Didn't they have dancers at the end of each episode? Lol. It's ok to dance NY
@@vincehowell8695yep I remember when it changed because I was born in( Jan 1986) and loved old school hip hop but it changed quick I was 11 when pac was jamming etc....but they still radio played old ishhh growing up I loved it , it wasn't always about drill or bang bang!! I barely listen to rap or hip hop anymore just soul, r&b, jazz, Motown, Mike Jackson , prince , James brown, etc... old rock/ Pop, country,, alot of music
He’s right on most of his assessment. But niggas are the same everywhere. Scarface UGK and boocoo southern artists wasn’t/aren’t into dance and definitely had messages. The radio likes our bounce:/dance songs. But we on that same head nod he talking about. We always thought cats who danced was lame for the most part. And I’m from New Orleans area where bounce was invented
KRS was my boy!!! Saw him twice in concert and then saw him in person when he spoke at my University. No one dared challenge him to a battle rap in person! Fire!
Yea KRS goes crazy. His one album “Between Da Protest” went crazyyyy. From songs like “free the book song” and “black black black”, absolute bangers. Only KRS can give us a history lesson in his music. Taught me a lot about my vulture than what I knew at the time.
The low-key difference between mere surface lvl entertainment & non mere surface lvl entertainment. The problem the masses dumbed The F down & sadly only want to shake their ass on average
Hi God blessed 50. To sharing his time respect others being hisself keeps him working enjoying his life keeps him making money without trying linda j. Peace
I'm happy KRS has continued to stay in his lane and even have it for others. Everyone plays their role, it's called balance, the culture needs balance just like all of life needs it!
I love both 50 and KRS. There's room for both styles in the culture, but there has to be a balance. It can't just be all hype turn up music or all lyrical conscious music.
I’m my opinion this is why I rank Pac the most versatile rapper. Because he had a way of getting messages across that you feel, without necessarily coming across like he was teaching.
I think it was Shock G that broke down how Pacs style was remnant of MLK Jr's approach to speeches. That in mind, it makes perfect sense why his lyrics were felt by so many. Listen to MLK and then go listen to Pac, you'll hear it
I had a whole a whole argument about KRS 1. Them fools tried to ask me what rapper is better than Eminem? I said KRS One. They asked who is that and I just walked off on them. People out here are lost.
Exactly 💯 You can't be a hip hop fan WITHOUT KNOWING HIM. It's like an AMERICAN not knowing or heard of George Washington 🤔 ---- Eminem is nowhere NEAR KRS1. It's kiddie rap to grown man rap 🤭
Rakim#1,KRS#2 Greatest MCEEs of All Time Dead or Alive in the world Then you start the list! I am(Real Hip Hop)SON 54 years old know the start Sedgwick Ave and beyond🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤!
He low key described the difference between hip hop and rap music. That said…a lot of 90s hip hop from the south had bounce wit knowledge…and that’s literally why everybody down here considers Dungeon Family the goats as a collective. From OutKast to Goodie Mobb to Killer Mike to Big Rube (poet on the early OutKast joints)…even on the solo tip…3stacks, Big Boi, Ceelo…all have legendary pens but they also can easily make music that gets played in Magic City. That range as an artist is unreal
I back 50s statement on how new Yorkers react to music ots how I do. People think I don't like their music kuz I say it's iight but in reality I love the shit and it's fire. Lmao it's just how it goes.
I went to the Loft in the early days (when Knuckles snuck in cause he wasn't old enough, up to when he took our thing to Chi and birthed house/JBs mention later), Nicky and other DJs went to England, Japan and birthed other genres. While also going to CBGBs cause punk was doing it's thing then up to the fever in the BX. Later, as you know, clubs all over had all types of dance from Rand B, disco, house, trance, punk/ metal/moshing, rap, you name it. A great place to be in those years, the 70s through to the 90s when the city was broke and grimy as hell. Started it all.
when I was a little kid, there was a poster of KRS One in our library. I used to listen to the older teenagers speak of him in reverence. He came across as someone who everyone respected, he wasn't a gangsta rapper but he was GANGSTA
Dumb it down Kris. Lord knows they won't smarting up. That's the problem. We always want gangsta violent shit or we don't want it. That's why our music is killing us. Period!!!
Being from Boston....and living in Houston now....50 is right. On the East Coast cats will nod their head more. Its a Grimey Wu Tang Clan type flow. In High School Wu was ALL I had in my Walkman. I moved down south and the 95 South or Two Live Crew was 🔥 Being in my 40's now...at least back in the 90's that was the case.
Return of the Boom Bap and albums from that era raised my consciousness. I watched some more recent stuff from KRS and it felt like a sermon. I couldn’t get into it.
Krs-1 famous line.... Yo I'm a teacher your Scott is a scholar it ain't about money cuz we all make dollars that's why I walk with my head up when I hear whack rhymes I get Fed up
I've always liked 50 as a person I think he is very smart.. his music was very good for what it was also ..his explanation between the regional differences not just krs but east cost to southern was spot on
Learned so much from Krs as a kid. How he broke down words to make you see them differently. Example: Tel-lies-Vision. All the educated ways he taught you in his rhymes was crazy!!!
