KRS-One

how much time do we have um but yeah i thought that was an interesting little like side quest that she could have gone on um But yeah, the hot rap singles as a chart debuts in March of 89.

And technically, MC Lyte is at the top of it because what dominates this chart at number one for like 10 weeks is a charity single put together by KRS-One called Self-Destruction.

I'm just credited to a group called Stop the Violence Movement.

And it has KRS and MC Lyte and Cool Mo D, Heavy D, Dougie Fresh, Chuck D, Flavor Flav.

I wanted to ask you about that.

I was in the studio a lot when KRS-One did Return of the Boom Back.

All that Primo shit.

All the shit Primo, because

Yeah.

You know what I mean? We not the Martin Luther King consciousness.

By 1994 standards, you was kind of like a YN KRS-One.

You feel what I'm saying? 100%.

My pops thought I was selling drugs in the street.

what you doing out here going to Harlem I'm 15 years old 16 years old I'm going to Harlem and Manhattan for hip hop because I loved hip hop and you know I got to see KRS-One perform Red Alert you know what I'm saying it was a time back then

Amir, what's some of your earliest memories of your love for hip-hop in hip-hop culture and what you were going through back then?

I think, well, I know when Troy had passed, it was like a shockwave.

And, you know, cause I grew up, I'm born in 1970.

And so when I was in junior high school, that's when Run DMC was first coming out and, you know, and, and, um, KRS-One was eventually going to become a prominent and public enemy and people like this.

So I sort of was also one of the early customers of sort of early hip-hop, you know.

And so that looms large in my influences too.

yeah.

The next year, KRS-One of Boogie Down Productions released South Bronx, an answer record that insisted hip-hop was born in the Bronx.

Thus began the Bridge Wars.

Before long, the beef got personal.

Members of Marley Marl's Juice crew responded to South Bronx with Kill That Noise.

and KRS-One trashed the entire crew on The Bridge Is Over.

Other members of the Bronx, Queens, and even Brooklyn hip-hop communities eventually jumped in.

The overarching feud was officially squashed in 2007 when KRS-One and Marley Mark collaborated on the album Hip Hop Lives.

yeah.

The next year, KRS-One of Boogie Down Productions released South Bronx, an answer record that insisted hip-hop was born in the Bronx.

Thus began the Bridge Wars.

Before long, the beef got personal.

Members of Marley Marl's Juice crew responded to South Bronx with Kill That Noise.

and KRS-One trashed the entire crew on The Bridge Is Over.

Other members of the Bronx, Queens, and even Brooklyn hip-hop communities eventually jumped in.

The overarching feud was officially squashed in 2007 when KRS-One and Marley Mark collaborated on the album Hip Hop Lives.

So I have my own server there that runs Prism.

We do it with the cheapest, as KRS-One said.

I mean, we believe in it.

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