What a stooge. If I had no idea what hip hop was before I heard this guy Id stay very far away from it.
From everything i can gather hip hop is sort of like rap music, but it takes itself way too seriously, and involves lots of panels and summits and shit. Theres also way more arguing, no girls, and tons of old people.
so far nothing in this thread supports the theory KRS has "lost his mind" not even the audio.......
hmmm... let us read from an incident in Houston a few years back.
Let's take the recent eventful evening when KRS-One headlined Fitzgerald's (2706 White Oak Drive), for instance. The curtain lifted on this drama when Simone Parker, KRS-One's manager of 14 years (and his wife of 12 -- that's right, she's the Sharon to his Ozzy), and tour manager B.J. Wheeler went into the Fitzgerald's office about an hour before KRS-One was scheduled to perform. They demanded that club booking agent Jake Fisher cough up additional expenses -- more hotel rooms, stuff like that -- and an extra $500 over and above the fee in the original contract. Arguing ensued, and owner Sara Fitzgerald was summoned from home to clear things up. When Fisher declared he wouldn't pay the additional $500, Parker and Wheeler brought in their heavy, too: KRS-One himself.
"I thought I had on my side that he was a peace-loving human being," says Fisher. "But he got violent real quick. He didn't put his hands physically on us, but he's a very large man, and he said, 'No, you're gonna pay me. You don't know what kind of muthafucka I am. You don't know me, do you, muthafucka? Do I need to go to my truck?' "
Believe it or not, this was not when things got wild. Fisher was willing to give KRS-One the amount agreed to in the contract, which Fitzgerald says was $3,500. But KRS-One was still not satisfied. According to Fisher, the rapper forced a Fitzgerald's staffer to open the box office and get all the money out (about $2,010). KRS-One dropped the money on a stool in the office and began to count it. When Fitzgerald tried to grab her cash back, KRS-One allegedly karate-chopped her hand off the stool and scooped the loot.[/b]
Fisher was ready to kick the rapper and his managers out of the club, cancel the show and refund the audience's money. But that move was preempted by KRS-One, who went upstairs to address his people from the stage. "KRS-One told everybody in the building that we refused to pay them and that they should come down here and demand their money back,"[/b] says Fisher.
The unruly crowd of about 200 predominantly white kids[/b] formed a dangerous crush down the stairs to the box office. "It wasn't a mob scene," says Fisher, "but they were throwing beer bottles, screaming, 'We want our money! What the fuck?' " Fitzgerald adds that she couldn't even give them their money back because KRS-One had moved it from the box office to the business office.
KRS-One, who stands six foot five and weighs more than 250 pounds, barreled down the stairs as well -- only he was brandishing a broom like Chow Yun Fat[/b] wielding the Green Sword. Meanwhile, some members of the audience had gotten inside the club's offices after one of their number had thoughtfully yanked the locked door off its hinges.
Finally Fitzgerald agreed to cough up the extra $500. "It was either that or have my club destroyed," she says.
KRS-One snapped back into peace-and-love mode and went upstairs to do the show. The crowd went wild.
According to KRS-One, also known as Kris Parker, all this came to a head because he never received the deposit he was supposed to get before he even came to town. (Fitzgerald admits this charge; she says a wrong routing number was to blame.)
Parker says that it was Fitzgerald who went nutty, that she told them to accept what she gave them and be happy about it. Parker wasn't about to get punked like that: "I warned her -- I said, 'You don't know who you're dealing with here. This is not a threat. I'm not threatening you. I'm telling you the truth.' And that's the truth. They don't know who they're dealing with. I'm not a regular, average rap act. I lead an entire culture. So the people made them understand that."[/b]
As for the karate-chop thing, he says he simply moved Fitzgerald's hand, as well as his wife's, away from the money before anyone got a chance to take it.
Everyone involved with the fracas agrees that it was a third party, a black friend of Fitzgerald's, who intervened and advised her to give them the extra cash. "I looked at my friend, and I said, 'Well, what do I do?' And he goes, 'Pay him the money. Somebody's gonna get hurt.' And so I just said, 'Okay, I'll pay you whatever you want.' "
"We basically got hijacked," interjects Fitz's booker Lana Lowery.
"He robbed us with the crowd that was upstairs," puts in Fisher. "I couldn't believe he was taking this $500, for no good reason other than the fact that they wanted 500 more dollars."
As for Fitzgerald, she says she doubts she'll book any more hip-hop acts at the club. "When something like this happens," she says, "I just want to go home and take a bath."
For the backpack "real hip hop" set, fitzgerald's was one of the only spots that would fuck with them. Ironically, the "leader" of their movement shut it down for them.
"I'll give anyone any of my songs and you can do whatever you want to it. Sell it, distribute it, I don't care. If you see me on the street just walk up to me and ask me for a DAT." (paraphrase)
That fool KRS has been crazy for years! This is not a suprise.
This is what happens when you're irrelevant - KRS has a kindred spirit in Jean-Luc Godard: not in the loop since '68 and 'Weekend' in much the same way KRS hasn't been since the early '90s... Bitter some? Check... Conspiracy theorist? Check... Loser? Check...
That fool KRS has been crazy for years! This is not a suprise.
This is what happens when you're irrelevant - KRS has a kindred spirit in Jean-Luc Godard: not in the loop since '68 and 'Weekend' in much the same way KRS hasn't been since the early '90s... Bitter some? Check... Conspiracy theorist? Check... Loser? Check...
Nah, the craziness preceded the irrelevance... it's just that people were willing to forgive it when he was still making music that mattered.
This is what happens when you're irrelevant - KRS has a kindred spirit in Jean-Luc Godard: not in the loop since '68 and 'Weekend' in much the same way KRS hasn't been since the early '90s... Bitter some? Check... Conspiracy theorist? Check... Loser? Check...
Krs-One is a self-important,temperamental bully ......he knows he's overbearing because it's intentional......he's not a 'wacko' at all.....he's more like an 'intelligent hoodlum'
I saw this and I was like "What/who does KRS stand for?" Becuase KRS-1 done lost his shit 15 years ago. Or right about here...
Check it out What are you saying What are you playing Who are you obeying Day out day in? Baby, baby, baby, baby That stuff is driving me crazy DJs communicate to the masses Sex and violent classes Now our children grow up prisoners All their lives radio listeners
KRS-1 done lost his ability to freestyle[/b] 15 years ago. Or right about here...
Check it out What are you saying What are you playing Who are you obeying Day out day in? Baby, baby, baby, baby That stuff is driving me crazy DJs communicate to the masses Sex and violent classes Now our children grow up prisoners All their lives radio listeners
dude is a vegetarian. but seriously his live shows are great. hell he even performs for free depending on the cause. crazy. hypocrisy in hip hop, the 7th element?
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hmmm... let us read from an incident in Houston a few years back.
For the backpack "real hip hop" set, fitzgerald's was one of the only spots that would fuck with them. Ironically, the "leader" of their movement shut it down for them.
bragging about being humble is
"I'll give anyone any of my songs and you can do whatever you want to it. Sell it, distribute it, I don't care. If you see me on the street just walk up to me and ask me for a DAT." (paraphrase)
Someone pleaes make this happen.....
This is what happens when you're irrelevant - KRS has a kindred spirit in Jean-Luc Godard: not in the loop since '68 and 'Weekend' in much the same way KRS hasn't been since the early '90s... Bitter some? Check... Conspiracy theorist? Check... Loser? Check...
Nah, the craziness preceded the irrelevance... it's just that people were willing to forgive it when he was still making music that mattered.
Oh, so you FBI now??
THIS MOTHERFUC*ER IS FBI!!!!!
"DAMMIT CHAULZ!!"
when KRS One would guest on R.E.M. records...
...and they would be hits, too...
awesome. i finally have a location.
the real hip hop is...OOOOVVVVERRRRR HEEEEEEERRRRE!
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