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