KRS One Blasts The Enemy

Words by Urban Warhol

Posted: 3:30 AM 9/23/99

KRS One says that rap haters like C. Delores Tucker are all talk and no action. The rapper/scholar says that the very people that should be joining us in the struggle for empowerment are the ones who pose the most opposition.

"White people aren't the major problem. The problem is our parents who sold us out in the 60's and 70's. You have C. Delores Tucker and Dick Gregory on C-SPAN bashing hip hop, but they don't invite us to sit down to defend ourselves."

The rift between the hip hop community and the older generation was created in the early 90's. The inflammatory rhetoric of publicity hungry blacks like Tucker and the infamous Rev. Calvin Butts drew swift verbal assaults from Bone Thugs-In-Harmony and the late Tupac Shakur.

The menacing Tucker sued Tupac's estate for alledgedly "ruining her sex life" and was instrumental in getting Interscope Records dropped from it's parent company Time Warner. (Interscope was the home of Death Row Records.) Butts entered the national spotlight after he and his small fanatic congregation steamrolled CDs by Snoop Dogg and others.

Veteran entertainers like Dionne Warwick and Nancy Wilson have also taken shots at hip hop. Warwick believes rappers are too irresponsible to handle the large amounts of money they make.

"I blame the record company. You give these kids these ridiculous sums of money and they don't know how to act.", says the Psychic Friends spokeswoman.

Hot 104.com correspondent Moe Power had this to say,

"These old women haven't done anything but turn their noses up and emulate white people for the last twenty years. Master P gave $500,000 to keep a Catholic School open in his community. What the f*ck have they ever done but preach? Hip Hop has created more black wealth than any other vehicle... with the exception of cocaine."

KRS says detractors are trying to impose their moral code on hip hop and have no regard for it's existing moral standards. In the end, the Teacher believes lack of communication is the major problem.

"White people don't understand us and our elders don't understand us either."

KRS One is currently heading a project for the preservation of hip hop culture named Temple of Hip Hop.

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