Hiphop Knowledge - KRS-One.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : KRS One
[00:01.000]You know.. life is funny..
[00:04.410]If you don't repeat the actions of your own success you won't be successful
[00:09.300]You gotta know your own formula, your own ingredients.What made you, YOU..
[00:15.720]1987 I was at the Latin Quarters
[00:17.710]Listenin to Afrika Bambaata give the order
[00:19.720]The call of the order was to avoid the slaughter
[00:21.570]He said, "Record companies ain't got nuttin for ya!"
[00:23.660]Without a lawyer, he taught The Infinity Lessons
[00:25.870]In how hip-hop could be a, many a blessing
[00:27.510]And that was great, so in 1988，there was no debate, we had to end the hate Afrika
[00:31.800]The name of the game was "Stop the Violence" and unity, knowledge, and self-reliance
[00:35.500]We - started talkin bout Martin and Malcolm
[00:37.700]Had these ghetto kids goin, "Huh, what about him?"
[00:39.580]1989, Professor Griff speaks his mind but his freedom of speech is declined
[00:43.600]1990 came with the West coast.East coast, West coast, who is the best coast? 1990
[00:47.270]Lookin back now, of COURSE it was bogus.The whole argument was where we lost focus
[00:51.240]We got hopeless; not with the lyrics and music but with hip-hop, and how we used it
[00:55.000]Or abused it, you know how the crew get."You like it cause you choose it"
[00:59.220]1991, we opened our eyes with Human Education Against Lies,we tried to talk about the state of humanity 1991
[01:07.000]They called me "Captain Human", another message was sent"Self Destruction don't pay the {******} rent"
[01:11.680]Remember that? Nobody wanted conscious rap
[01:13.800]It was like - where these ballers at?Where can they call us at? All was wack
[01:17.000]Hip-Hop culture was fallin flat and that was that
[01:19.170]So in 1992, I found my crew.They said, "Yo Kris, what you wanna do?"
[01:22.750]I said, "Damn - why they wanna get with me?If I bust they {****} I'm contradictory.
[01:27.000]If I play the rap role, they take my shoe. Tell me what the **** am I supposed to do
[01:31.000]So I did it, don't stop get it get it get it.All of a sudden these critics they wanna spit it
[01:35.250]"Kay Are Ess One is con-tra-dic-to-ry"Just cause I wouldn't let these rappers get with me
[01:39.000]**** that, **** you and **** your pen. If a rapper wanna diss, yo I'd do it again
[01:42.650]But I'm makin these ends, and I got my friends
[01:44.680]And I really don't wanna have to sit in the pen.So I go back to the philosopher
[01:49.000]1993 hip-hop is uhh.. wack.Go back, check the facts
[01:52.490]1994, "Return of the Boom Bap"It wasn't all about the loot.It was all about Harry Allen Rhythm Cultural Institute 1
[01:58.430]Blowin up, 1995.Conscious rap is still alive
[02:02.550]But nobody wanna play it, nobody wanna say it.Nobody okayed it, they'd all rather hate it
[02:06.660]1996 it really don't stop.We put together somethin called the Temple of Hip-Hop
[02:10.790]Not just DJin, breakin, graf and lyrics.But how hip-hop affects the spirit
[02:14.790]"Step Into a World," that's what I did “
[02:17.000]1997 I was raisin my kid or kids, but I, had to go 1997
[02:20.510]Cause New York DJ's changed the flows to clothes and hoes, but that wasn't me
[02:24.450]I'll be damned if I dance for the MTV
[02:26.460]So in 1998 I began to debate.Should I go now, or should I really wait?
[02:30.380]'99, I moved to L.A. you see and took a gig with the WB
[02:34.560]Started studyin philosophy full-time.To have a full heart, full body, full mind
[02:38.420]But you know what the problem is or was?
[02:41.000]DJ's don't raise our kids, cuz they so caught up in the cash and jewels DJ
[02:44.290]How they gonna really see a hip-hop school?How they gonna really see a hip-hop temple?
[02:48.440]They don't even wanna play my instrumentals, but big up Dr. Dre, Snoop, Xzibit
[02:52.570]Especially Xzibit, he was there in a minute
[02:54.380]Mic Conception, all of them, said"Yo you need help? I should call them"
[02:59.000]When I was in L.A., I held the crown.Bloods, Crips, they held me down
[03:02.070]I could never forget Mad Lion, killer pride with the gat in the lap in the low-ride
[03:05.500]Oh I can't forget, Icy Ice, Lucky Lou.Julio G, that was the crew Davey D, Ingrid, David Connor
[03:12.300]The list goes on and on, let me tell ya FredWreck, and my man Protest.Much respect, no less
[03:17.690]To my spiritual and mental defenders.Big up to L.A., temple members
[03:21.370]But in 2000, I seen how I wanted to live.I wasn't no executive
[03:25.960]So I picked up the mic and I quit my job.Said to Simone I gotta get with God
[03:29.800]She said, "Don't worry bout these dollars and quarters.Record companies ain't got nuttin for ya."
[03:33.870]Damn, she took me back to Bam!.Took me back to who I am!
[03:37.600]Brought me back to the New York land!Now I overstand!..
[03:46.000]{interviewer}Now KRS-One, now you've been quoted as saying that rap is something we do, hip-hop is something you live.
[03:52.740]{KRS} Yes! KRS-ONE:
[03:54.030]{interviewer}Explain that to us please.
[03:55.430]{KRS-One}Well, well, today hip-hop, we are advocating that hip-hop is not,just a music, it is an attitude, it is an awareness, it is a way to view the world.
[04:05.760]So rap music, is something we do, but HIP-HOP,is something we live.
[04:12.000]And we look at hip-hop, in it's 9 elements;
[04:15.000]which is breaking, emceeing, graffiti art, deejaying, beatboxing,street fashion, street language, street knowledge, and street entrepenurialism - trade and business.
[04:25.780]And uhh, that's where y'know that's the hip-hop that that that we're about.
[04:29.900]We come from the uhh the root of, of Kool DJ Herc, who originated hip-hop in the early
[04:37.500]and then Afrika Bambaata and Zulu Nation (mmhmm) who instigated something called The Infinity Lessons
[04:43.190]and added conciousness to hip-hop, and then Grandmaster Flashwith the invention of the mixer, on to Run-D.M.C. and then myself.
[04:51.420]And uhh, we created the "Stop the Violence" movement, you may recall a song, "Self Destruction" and and and so on.
[04:58.700]All of this, goes to uhh uhh, the idea of LIVING this culture out and taking responsibility for how it looks and and acts in society.