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They won't let KRS-ONE get on Bill O'Reilly's show 'cause he ain't a major rap star, he's an underground mc, what he does is unknown to most people which is a damn shame 'cause he's bustin' his ass to make a change in the world! :mad8: I wish more commercial rappers could give props to KRS-ONE for what's he's done, Nas should do a video with KRS-ONE, that'd be a great moment for hip-hop.

There's no doubt that it'll hit black radio, it has better chance of getting airplay 'cause it ain't the typical "Big Willie Style" pop rap song.

Hey I'm gonna try to get more of PE's album collection before this new album drops, I'll probably get that "There's A Poison Goin' On" CD that Tim played for me the other in the JJFP radio. When you're talking all-time great hip-hop groups it's a coin toss between Public Enemy, JJFP, and Run-Dmc, NWA was great but they broke up too fast and these other groups are still together(Run-Dmc would still be out performing if JMJ was still alive). btw, I read that it's gonna be distributed through Universal, which is a Def Jam affiliate, so maybe they're going back to Def Jam, maybe that's why Mistachuck's been giving Jay-Z props in his recent terrordomes. :kekeke: In all seriousness though, I'll just be happy to find the album on the 1st day it gets released, it ain't gonna sell that much, the knowledge is gonna be way over most commercial rap fans' heads.

Guy "Teddy's Jam III"

http://www.vibe.com/modules.php?op=modload...article&sid=321 Interview: KRS-One – The Edutainment Continues “Your hip hop conference is not a hip hop conference if I’m not there,” booms KRS-One with that trademark arrogance, his voice is so loud that one of the greatest MCs of all time doesn’t even need a microphone. KRS-One has always been a man with a lot on his mind; give “The Teacha” a room full of heads at the University of Maryland’s 4th Annual Hip Hop Conference and six hours later he’ll still be there, preaching the gospel of his spiritual-minded Temple of Hip Hop. Now 38-years-old KRS has assumed the role of hip hop’s most vocal and passionate ambassador, lecturing students at universities across the country to spread hip hop’s founding principles of peace, love, unity and having fun. Following his marathon lecture, "The Teacha" took some time to discuss the Movement, the future of hip hop culture, Bill O’Reilly, and why rap is something we do, but hip hop is something we live. VIBE Online: You talk about hip hop as the process of gaining knowledge on your own. So what’s so hip hop about KRS-One coming to a university and saying what’s what to a bunch of people just nodding their heads? KRS-One: Ha, well the quick answer is the universe contradicts itself. You look at the entire universe, there’s things going on in this universe that make no sense. But here’s a little more under the surface: Not everyone in that room heard what I said. There were about five people in that room that really heard what I said. The rest of the people have already given me their consent. That’s why Bush is in office. But five of them people was like, “Wait a minute. He just said some ill s***. I need to ask him about that.” Those are the people we really came to educate and then we will take them out of the university system. But I only hope that one day hip hop can become a university course. Because it’s that course at the university that will show you what to do with every other degree you got. This is why the university needs me. I will show their students what to do with their degree. That’s the one missing link that the university doesn’t have: you give a degree, but you don’t tell nobody what to do with it. The attitude of universities is, “You paid us for the degree, we gave you what you wanted, now bounce.” But the university, whether I like it or not, is the think pool for America. You want to influence America, your ass better be in the university VIBE Online: Do you need to be down with KRS-One to be down with the movement? KRS-One: No. KRS needs to be down with you so he can be part of the movement. The movement rests with the people. Always. To be down with the movement you just need to care about hip hop and know that you’re in a culture that’s growing and it’s new and it can become anything, so don’t f*** it up. VIBE Online: How do we negotiate the negative voices coming down on the culture, like a Bill O’Reilly? How do we silence people like him, or get people not to pay attention to him in order to make your movement progress, get hip hop courses into the universities? Because if you ask Bill O’Reilly should there be hip hop courses in university he’d say “Hell no! That’s the last thing we should be teaching at university.” KRS-One: And right after that say, “We have KRS-One as your next guest to talk about hip hop at the university.” VIBE Online: Have you been asked by Bill O’Reilly to be on his show? KRS-One: Never! He’ll never invite me. When the Ludacris thing with Pepsi happened we called them right away to say, “There is another voice that you need to hear.” But they don’t want to hear it. They need to pull Cam’ron on there. But when they put Cam’ron on, 50 million people in the United States said, “Why don’t you have KRS-One? Why don’t you have Chuck D? Why don’t you have Talib Kweli?” That’s the un-knowing. That’s when you don’t do nothing and justice appears. I would ruin him. It’s beyond an interview. I would ruin his career. You don’t battle KRS-One. You know what it is. I’m not just trying to win; I’m trying to destroy you. Period. And I will. So when I get in front of Bill O’Reilly record the show and label it the “Death of Ignorance.” They don’t want me on that show. VIBE Online: Where do you differ from a Russell Simmons or a Chuck D.? What are you saying that they’re not saying? Where do you disagree or agree? KRS-One: Well Chuck D. and I are one. He is a definitely a soldier in our movement. He’s always supportive and always there. But with Russell, there are differences there. We are friends but Russell acts like he is afraid of what I’m doing. But if there is one message I can get to Russell, even through this interview, is that he needs to join our movement. He doesn’t have to do it on his own. He has full support from me and others and the Temple of Hip hop will be the only hip hop organization that will match Russell dollar for dollar and not take money from him. Right now everybody around him got they hand out. VIBE Online: Even Ben Chavis? KRS-One: Everybody! That’s a diss enough. Everybody around Russell want money. I don’t. I want Russell the spiritual man. I want Russell the guy who twists himself in all sorts of positions trying to learn yoga. VIBE Online: Is there an artist right now that is capable of bringing hip hop to where you would like to see it go? KRS-One: No one is capable of taking hip hop to where I see it going. I have a divine mission. I have come out of the universe to get this s*** together. But for now I have to set up for the true messiah to come. I’m more like John the Baptist. I’m proclaiming the word. The closest is Nas. I’m training Nas to be that leader. VIBE Online: Seems people have wanted Nas to be that guy since ‘93. KRS-One: Oh, Nas is “the one.” But you want to talk about someone caught between the CEO world and the movement -- Nas has issues. He’s in the hood, Queensbridge projects, he’s gotta keep it real with the fellas. Then he picks up the phone and talks with me discussing NASA and the universe and hip hop’s role on Mars. When I asked him, “Nas I want you to speak at NASA,” he hung up the phone on me. He couldn’t take it. He called me back an hour later saying, “Yo, man. I’m sorry man. Yo, man. Yo, you just too much man. I had to take a breather.” I said, “Stop being afraid. It’s just a building. You go and you talk and you leave.” But he wants the training. He’s interested in the training and he’s not afraid. It’s just I’m a crazy guy. VIBE Online: Are you prepared for the movement to fail? KRS-One: Yes. Because it can’t. Nothing real can ever fail. Nothing real can be destroyed. And hip hop, this movement, is real. By Barry Schwartz"

Hey I just came across this passage in the "Where You're At?" book I've been reading recently, talking about how Japanese kids try to sound gangsta with no gangs there: "But some rappers are, like, wannabe gangsta and they rap about thug life in Japan. But there are no gangs here. There are teenage kids who fight and steal cars, they shoplift, stuff like that, but most of it's total fantasy. No doubt a lot of kids here are so influenced by the media that they don't have a critical view of magazines or music videos. They read stuff or see artists and they just take to it without any questions..."

I'm bumpin' this up for anyone interested in checkin' this out!

Well soon enough I'm get all these albums, I wasn't expecting all this great stuff to come out at once, it definately looks like some good r&b's finally comin' out and doing well for a change, maybe this might the best year for music in a while! :thumb:

Come on lambert, you should see that a lot of us here don't like 50 Cent, deal with it man, any artist that gets criticism on this forum besides JJFP you have to deal with. btw, speaking of 2Pac, I saw an advertisement on MTV2 about a new Outlawz album in stores now, did anyone hear it yet? I wish they blew up instead of G Unit in my opinion 'cause they have some talent.

I saw that video the other day, damn those chicks look so trashy, that looked worse than a Nelly video. :cwm:

It's amazing how well Reggie Miller and Alonzo Mourning are playing for their teams, they turned the clock back to when they were in their primes.

Well earlier today I went digging through my comic book collection, I used to buy comics all the time when I was younger with my allowance, it's been a while since I went through them, and I read a couple issues of "Spiderman", I was watching "Spiderman" DVD yesterday so I thought I might as well go through and read some comics.

Well music is expression of life and the problems in music can relate to the problems in society, everybody complains but not many offer solutions, that's why things are the way they are. Hip-Hop is basically just like pop music now, it's more of a buisiness than it is a culture, people are more money greedy now. Just like Chuck D said in a 2002 PE song "Get Your S*** Together": "AINT EVEN GONNA FIX MY MOUTH TO SAY CHICKENS TOLD YALL IN TERRORDOME THE CLOCKS TICKIN FROM ALL SIDES COME THE WICKED GOVERNMENTS FUNDAMENTALISTS BUT HOW YOU GONNA KILL THE INNOCENT? BETWEEN TERRORISTS AND CIA HIT LISTS LIKE MY MAN UNO SAYS BEWARE THE FALSE PROPHETS GOTTA BE SMARTER THAN THIS THEY SAY WAR IS A PROFIT WITH LOVED ONES MISSED BUT DEATH IS A DEBT NONE OF US AINT SEEN WAR YET BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR WAR IS HELL AND HELL IS WAR ALL THEM BLING BLING THANGS THROW EM IN THE RIVER ALL THAT THUGGED OUT SH*T YALL CANT DELIVER SEEN FOUR PLANES KILL EVERYDAY FOLKS GUESS 911 AINT NO JOKE WALL STREET CRYIN BROKE WAS IT GOD OR THE DEVIL ITSELF WHO SPOKE? OLD VAMPIRES HIT THE NEW EMPIRE HAD THE SKY COOKIN BROOKLYN HAD NO OTHER CHOICE BUT TO STARE AND KEEP LOOKIN CITY SMILE MISSIN TWO FRONT TEETH WHILE SOME OF YALL STILL TALKIN THEM LITTLE ASS BEEFS OVER WHO, WHAT SOUNDSCANNED THIS MONTH YOU SOUND SCARED GUESSIN WHERE THE PARTY AT? WHILE DOWNTOWNS WONDERIN WHERE THE BODIES AT?"

This is gonna be one hell of a summer, we're gettin' a Rev. Run album and a Public Enemy album, it's been a while since I've been lookin' forward to upcoming albums like this! :afro: Speaking of time, this part of Chuck D's recent terrordome is genious, he sums it up perfectly how valuable our time is: "Time. Let me tell you that Time is God. Simple as that. I don't care who the hell you are, where you come from, how much money you got, what religion's pimpin you out, or who you wit- time will whup that tail, sure as you born. No one can MASTER time. The best that we can do is MANAGE our time as it pertains to us. But time is different to different people, who sometimes can't share time because of differing value systems. I tell cats my time is valuable and cannot be exchanged for someone time that's mostly a waste of it. You heard it waits for no man, woman, child, plant, nor animal. True. But also you better understand time is given to you and you should spend it wisely because time is true money, and that in itself is rationed. So if you feel something or someone is wasting your time either get away, give them a bill, or just politely tell them your time is too expensive to share. Yeah, time IS God. OK. April 2005, we are 25% through a year that is halfway through a new decade, in a new century and new millennium...signifying again that time waits for no man."

I like the idea of JJFP performing at clubs, it'd be a better way for you to meet them if you could attend that rather than going to see them at an arena where odds are slim to none that you could get an autograph.

Yeah things are looking up now! :thumb:

Yeah Chuck D has his own internet radio show, he writes books, he lectures at colleges, and I think he even made a new solo album too, and even posts blogs(he calls them "Terrordomes") on publicenemy.com monthly, I don't know where he gets his time! :speechless: I can't wait to see the PE video, hopefully it knocks some wack videos off the air! :kool:

Yeah that battle's neck and neck, both of y'all did a great job, I know I'm gonna have to come hard in the next round now.

I found this on the Enemy Board: "Public Enemy's all new Paris-produced album, "Rebirth Of A Nation," hits stores on August 9th, 2005! Featuring all-new material, Rebirth Of A Nation will be available through all major retailers - Target, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Barnes & Noble, Borders, FYE, Tower, Sam Goody, Circuit City, Virgin, and The Wherehouse, among others, as well as select retailers online. Featuring Paris, Dead Prez, Kam, MC Ren, Immortal Technique and The Conscious Daughters, Rebirth Of A Nation is an exercise in controlled chaos, as Paris pulls out all of the stops to present his finest work yet for what is arguably the most important hip-hop group ever. The single, "Can't Hold Us Back," hits stores July 12th. "

Yeah that's dope! :afro:

*cough* *cough* 50 CENT *cough* :werd: It's more than just him though but of course he's the main suspect! :ali: :ali:

:werd: Well this basically comes down to balance, every mc major labels sign these days is a wannabe 2Pac and Biggie, I think the deaths of Biggie and 2Pac opened up the flood gate even more for commercial trash to come in, the veteran artists started to get dumped even more, now the only ol' school cats on major labels are LL and FP, that's a shame too and more thug rappers got signed, even Dr. Dre all he's doing is signing thug rappers, why can't he sign more variety to his Aftermath? Major label execs are loving it 'cause these kids are really eating up what they're being spoonfeed, catchy beats and hooks, they listen to so much of it that if you put a song on the radio that's a lil' bit creative, they won't request it, look at "Bridgin' The Gap", that was arguably the most creative hip-hop single in years, but it got no airplay and even Nas is starting to fade from the spotlight, he's signing new artists like Quan to his independent label, but they're getting no buzz 'cause Nas' sales are slippin', KRS-ONE signs a bunch of young talent to his independent label but of course they ain't gettin' no buzz 'cause KRS-ONE ain't sellin' that much either. Glorfying violence ain't gonna solve anything like I said before, it's giving this negative sterotype that all black people live in the gutter, which is not true, but the kids might believe that since that's all they see in the music videos, we need to see a different side of black people too in the spotlight, that's why some civil rights folks are mad at the way society is now, 'cause they fought so hard to get blacks out the gutter and we throw ourselves there again! :nono:

Well with this continual sad state of commercial I hope "Lost and Found" could remain on the charts for a long time and win some awards 'cause a true artist deserves to get more props, I'm tired of seeing a lot of wack talent/subpar talent artists get overhyped.

I know I coulda came harder than I did so I'd say FPC and Hero had great verses! :thumb:

Hey the Bulls played pretty damn well last night, Niciloni had a big game! :kool: