When you know the law, you’re above the law. When you break the law, you’re under the law.
KRS-One quotes
- Quotes
- 16
- Lyrics
- 8
- Interviews
- 8
Wisdom runs this page: Twelve of the 16 lines carry that theme, well ahead of anything else. The split is even, 8 lyrics and 8 interview lines, with 3 of the interview quotes coming from The Austin Chronicle (2000) and another from The A.V. Club (2001). On the lyric side the songs include Step Into A World (Rapture's Delight), Outta Here and Criminal Minded. Talking or rapping, the angle is self-knowledge as a discipline, and "know your own formula" is as tidy a summary as any.
It’s the job of the philosopher to offer for discussion ideas that aren’t popular
I got hit over the head for saying it back then. Of course, now, nobody says they’re doing Hiphop. They all say they are Hiphop.
Word, fake people ain't worth a turd
They only want to be your friend because of what they overheard
We're not promoting violence, we're just havin' some fun
He's Scott LaRock, I'm KRS-One
It is the conciousness behind the gun
That determines if the gun is positive or negative
You gotta know your own formula, your own ingredients
Only love is consistent because only love is unconditional.
Self-management and self-control are the keys to advanced knowledge, and both are difficult to learn without a sense of your own cultural identity.
You can never be too old for hip-hop.
Do you ever think about when you outta here?
Record deal and video outta here?
Mercedes Benz and Range Rover outta here?
No doubt BDP is old school, but we ain't goin' out!
Any MC can battle for glory
But to kick a dope rhyme to wake up your people's another story
Act like you never saw me
'Cause when it comes to lyrics, I'm in a different category
I'm not saying I'm number one, uhh I'm sorry, I lied
I'm number one, two, three, four and five
Stop wastin' your money on marketing schemes
And pretty packages pushin' dreams to the fiends
A dope MC is a dope MC
With or without a record deal, all can see
The bottom line is, "Are you in this for money, or are you in this for art?"
When Bush was president, Hiphop culture was thriving because people felt threatened. When Clinton got into office, people no longer felt threatened, so we went into the bling-bling age.