When asked about police brutality in modern America, KRS-One looks back through hundreds of years. In order to understand cases such as Trayvon Martin, the Boogie Down Productions rapper examines the foundation upon which the United States was built.
“Let’s start with the fact that certain White people – and I say certain White people, you’ll see what I’m saying at the end of this statement – certain White people, like every culture, has a criminal element to it,” KRS-One says during an exclusive interview with HipHopDX. “Black people are no different. Asians are no different. Native American no different. Latinos, Arabs no different. Everybody has a criminal element to their culture. When I say ‘criminal,’ it means the common laws of humanity, the things humans do you know are wrong, but sometimes you do it anyway. You take the risk. Things like murder. Even the murderer knows that murder is wrong. Theft. Even the thief knows that he’s stealing. This is the criminal element in our society. We have people that kill and steal and lie and cheat and try to get their own self interest done at any cost, even if it’s at the expense of their own family. So we have this element in humanity, but when it comes to White people in particular, the criminal element of their society governs their society and this is the problem. The criminal element of White society governs White society and so the majority of basic human beings who just happen to be White are bullied by this criminal element in their own society.”
KRS-One points to Europe’s so-called Dark Age, when criminality became the governing force of society and the continent moved away from the divine right of kings doctrine (and similar ones) that had ruled much of the world for thousands of years. It was during this time, he says, that psychopaths came into power. These people are characterized as being antisocial, a lack of empathy and remorse.
“The ruling class of White people are psychopaths, literally,” KRS-One says. “This is backed up in medical information and what I’m speaking to is history.
“These criminals in Europe stages coups and military overthrows of the rightful kings of Europe,” he adds. “Once the rightful kings of Europe were taken out through murder, not more intelligence, not a better divinity, not because the people loved this person. None of that. They murdered the king. They murdered the queen, murdered the whole family. This was the criminal element of Europe now rising up. They feel they can just murder whoever the feel is in their way. Anyone putting law down, saying, ‘We have to live by this way or this way,’ this criminal element of Europe rose up and broke the law first. Then, rather than going to jail or be hung for breaking the king’s law, they killed the king and the queen and their families. Now this criminal element – some of which were thrown in jail, caught, hanged, killed – the ones that escaped, meaning not the ones that did the killing but that agreed with the philosophy – came over to the Americas. When they came over to the Americas, their concept was, ‘Respect no law.’”
KRS-One: A “Group Of Criminals Is What Governs The United States”
Thus, KRS-One contends, when these Europeans arrived in the Americas, they encountered American continents full of civilization, complete with fully developed cities, bustling trade routes and all sort of art and science. Once they took control and pushed their belief that the divine right of kings is a corrupt concept, they empowered themselves to become rulers.
“People like George Washington betrayed the king of England and sided with the criminals that were sent over and said to the criminals, ‘You’re not criminals anymore. You’re Americans. Join us on this idea and we will take this country from the English, from the British,’” KRS-One says.
“This group of criminals is what governs the United States,” he adds. “It doesn’t govern the world. It just governs the United States, this criminal element.”
This criminal class then created the United States constitution. It is an important distinction that the country is called the United States Of America, KRS-One says, because it is not America.
“America is enslaved by the United States,” he says. “The United States are a bunch of criminals. America is the true country of people trying to just live their lives.
“There is no law in the United States,” he adds. “Law is only the written oppression of the poor. That’s it. There’s no real law because real law is based on order. It’s based on the order of society. That’s why they say ‘law and order.’ There’s no law without order. There’s no order without law.
“These criminals were not interested in social order,” he continues. “They were invested in slavery, kidnap, murder, theft, extortion. This is what they were about, no rightful government that really tries to order its people through law. These people were willing to do anything to not be under law and order. So now we become a country, the United States of America has this criminal class that’s born generation after generation after generation after generation. They teach their children criminality. There’s no country in the world but America that promotes murder. No country does this.”
KRS-One: “Hollywood Is An Arm Of The Criminal Government”
KRS-One says Hollywood is the main way this agenda is pushed to the American public.
“Hollywood is an arm of the criminal government,” he says. “Hollywood is designed, it’s purpose is to guide the United State’s population through art and myth and poetry. So what do they give us a #1 guiding myth in this country? Kill. Kill. Kill. Look at Fast And The Furious. You have Vin Diesel, Ludacris, Latino and Black, a White dude who actually passed away [Paul Walker], going down to places like Brazil in the racing car underworld. What we’re rooting for is car thieves. If you’ve ever had your car stolen, you don’t root for no car thief. If you’ve ever had your window bashed in and your radio taken, you’re not rooting for no car thief. But here we are with a multi-billion dollar industry that promotes straight murder, straight theft, straight lies because that’s what they’re about.
“So, now you come to the police,” he adds. “So the police are supposed to uphold law and order.”
But where the police were initially entrusted with maintaining peace and public safety, KRS-One says it is better to view them as an arm of government.
“They’re not really trying to establish peace,” KRS-One says of the police. “What they’re really trying to do is oppress working people. They’re trying to keep working people afraid, off-balance, stressed-out because this motivates the workforce. If the workforce was at peace, no work would get done. No society that is at peace is getting mass work done.”
Thus, KRS-One says, the police are encouraged to use force.
KRS-One On Police: “They Have To Shoot Us”
“They have to shoot us,” he says. “They have to because it helps with the workforce. It helps for people to go to college. It helps to say, ‘Trayvon Martin was a street kid. He shot himself, basically, because he was a street kid. So I need all of ya’ll now to start thinking about going to college.’ The solution is not kill the cops, not to get rid of the killer cops. The solution is, ‘He wasn’t in college. He didn’t have a job.’ He was not part of slavery, basically. So they make the whole population afraid that if they stay free, if they’re an entrepreneur, if they walk around free, then they’re actually going to now be shot or pulled over for no reason. These are people that follow the laws. We’re following law and the cop is pulling us over for no reason whatsoever. They just need to make a quota. It’s now out in the open. We’re saying now it’s not controversial.
“The reason the cops are shooting us down is because the government of the United States are still slave traders,” he adds. “They’re still slavers. We have not defeated slavery.”
KRS-One then refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. It says, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
KRS-One says that the amendment merely relegates slavery over to the Justice Department, to the prisons.
“If they can just catch you break the law, or say that you broke the law, you have the right now to be enslaved because they – the corrupt, the thief, the murderer, the extortionist – says you broke their laws,” he says. “Imagine that. You break the law of a murderer and they say, ‘You broke the law. Now we can enslave you.’ That’s just slavery. It’s just another way to get you on the plantation, because there’s no law in that.”
One could easily cut and paste the face of Krs-one onto a gorilla and it would look exactly the same. He was a pioneer of hip-hop but his music died many moons ago.
Ladies and gentlemen… The devil has spoken!! Lol yall white racist hip hop caveboys need to take several seats #CmonSon
Stop trying to race bait you pathetic excuse for a man I bet you’re white as well . Bore off
This is not about music, this is about life. You cannot correlate music with the 13th amendment or lack there of. Open your mind.
Kris quit trying to distract us your apart of the Zulu nation correct? Did you write about bambataa when you wrote 13 and good? The man is a pedophile how long did you know?
Nah he is not UZN… He has his own movement Temple of Hip Hop
Don’t mind me, just came to laugh at the angry white males.
This article is just too damn funny. As always, thanks for the laugh Lawrence.
White boy here loves KRS One for this.. Us poor whites are not connected to the elite.we’re your next door neighbor who get beat down in the street because of those in power. We dont like them either but we dont like getting jumped in the street either.our enemy as poor people are those whites in power.
Americas is such an awful place. They fucked up the entire continent of south america with their war on drugs. They have donald trump as potential leader and kanye west and kim k as their cultural icons. All the while using 1/4 the worlds resources.
there’s nothing sadder than an old black man trying to talk about global history, especially anything relating to either europe or africa. these are the dudes that unironically wear ankhs and think black people were kings in egypt. there’s probably not a more uninformed community of people than african americans, case in point: this insane and racist rant being propped up as legitimate news.
Someone is either a closet racist or a self loathing k o o n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#CultureVultureAlert
And here they come arriving in droves …..Read CLICKBAIT headline …. Leave angry prejudiced rant …. Rinse & Repeat…Same time tomorrow fellas ?
Believe what you want, I tend to believe hundreds of years of history. This country was built on the slave trade, there is no escaping that. Also, there is no escaping that racism rules the United States.
With all of the handouts blacks get they still can’t or won’t compete on a level playing field, and they’re filled with hatred and they commit a lot of crimes. Yeah, you’re really special. I only have to look at ANY African country to see how special you are. You are so special you could turn anything to pure s*h*i*t.
Much respect to the Teacha. Amerikkka was founded by rapist murders an thieves. Until this country reconciles with its past there will never be peace among the races.. Health Love Awareness an Wealth to y’all
Good to see KRS’s knowledge is still threatening to you racist pricks. Peace-n-Love.
KRS ONE FOR PRESIDENT!
Don’t you mean KRS-One for king?
kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent
Of Nigeria, top of the black slaver list in Afrisa TODAY.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1399571/people-modern-slavery-africa-country/
Damn, the truth has been spoken! Honest people will take this and learn.
Yeah KRS dropped knowledge right there. Truth is painful. This reminds me of that documentary bowling for columbine by Michael Moore.A lot of the same things talked about. America is built on a foundation of hate, lies and violence.
Tired of whites being culture vultures when minorities are the ones that invented everything. But now they’re taking L’s left and right lol.
“invented everything” HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA
black people always dropping knowledge on the pastl ike they had access to a time machine 10000000s of years ago to tell us what happened..they swear they know everything and half of the ones who swear they know everything about how the earth was formed dont eve know how to read properly or gather their FUTURE together properly. this is coming from personal convos
Well he isright and I had so some truth to add on to help out what he saysbut DX won’tlet me post it? This is why I stop commenting on here cause they let ignorant people post whatever they want but if you got something to say they block it?
Straight up
Look, it is as simple as this…the people in power will always take advantage of that power. If black people were in power it would be the same way, if asians were in power it would be the same way, if latinos were in power it would be the same way. There is no way to actually be equal, it’s not in our nature as humans, we’re flawed in that way. A black kid is discriminated against in a white neighborhood the same way a white kid is in a black neighborhood. It’s not racism, it’s human nature…The ruling class of white people are psychopaths, but so is the ruling class of black people in the hood. Gang leaders and such are ruthless with their power. It’s not about the color, it’s about the power. We make it about race becuz we can tell horrible stories from the past, but the reality is the ruling class of any color are fucked and abuse their power. White people just do it on a bigger scale cuz they have the numbers. I don’t get why this is so hard to understand. Now we’re just too selfish as humans to sacrifice what it would take to overthrow power, so we can post all the bullshit articles we want, nobody’s gonna do shit. Live your life, worry about you, and use the knowledge you have of this corruption to keep yourself out of trouble and you can salvage a decent life
if you look at any other country you see corruption in that country. dont matter if its asian led china or NK who kill their own protestors bc of communism or if its iraq or pakistan or spanish slums. shit even black ppl in africa still wear bones in their nose and dont got 1 advancement in life.
Latinos is not a race the ruling claas in the Americas is white. White supremacist is a disease worldwide even in Palestine or India pale skin is seen as a privilige. You say that bc you white don’t want to lose your power
Not a problem in Africa, where slavery is abundant.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1399571/people-modern-slavery-africa-country/
How come he can shit about race but if someone said that bout black people they get called a racist it’sgoes both ways we are all one
FACTS-the people who left Europe to the colonies were the criminals and deviants! They were not wanted there!…and the aristocratic class did not leave luxury and prestige to rough it in the wilderness…in short BlastMaster Kris is FACTUALLY CORRECT!
To the idiot below is it Bro or Sis? I’ll go for Sis, is it nervous laugh or you just realize how stupid you are? See most folks hear about the Constitution of the United States but do not actually read it and try to comprehend what is in it. Dumb a@ss, stop wearing those tight jeans they squeeze the oxygen outta your brains.
Go ahead and respond
It’s Bro, but you can address me however you want to. And it’s not a “nervous laugh”. It’s more of a slow buildup to gut busting, i might piss myself laughter, at some pseudo intellectual spouting off about the divinity of kings. It’s all quite funny.
Notice KRS-One said it exists in every culture, black white asian etc… Dont think that the Ruling class of Black People aren’t Psychopaths.
what black ruling class? In Africa post colonial all rulers are sociopaths. But the western ruling class is white and those black rulers actually harm their own people to benefit whites (Muwabe and Nestle)
We do what we do…every ruling class is the same…whatever got to be done to hold on to power gotta happen…we’re not psychopathic, we just winning.
^says “we” like he/she has wealth/power! LMFAO, LOL, ROTFL, LML….*FIRST*: you have to be in the %1 to be ruling class, those INBRED families that keep money in the family…*SECOND* if you actually are in the %1 and commenting on a website rather than overthrowing a country, you are not winning but you can hold this L
Its not the 1%. Its the top 1% of the 1%. The overall 1% includes some fairly normal people who make over 350K a year. While these people benefit from the system, they have little power.
^says “we” like he/she has wealth/power! LMFAO, LOL, ROTFL, LML….*FIRST*: you have to be in the %1 to be ruling class, those INBRED families that keep money in the family…*SECOND* if you actually are in the %1 and commenting on a website rather than overthrowing a country, you are not winning but you can hold this L
He was high on something way too strong for his head,he gotta lay off this stuff. His version ain’t even Conpiracy Theory,its just hallucinations.The brother needs lots of prayers
i guess the “lot of prayers“ are a synonym for g@ng-st@lking and permanent h@rr@ssments by repeating rum0rs and n0nsense 24/7
These psychopaths need to be killed asap!!! What’s their names and where exactly they live? We need to stop them!!
Jeff, David, and Ted. They all live on the corner of Green Street and Holland Lane.
Oldass mufucka yet to find out that power corrupts.
the so called dark age has started thousands of years ago as himself has said, the murders came into selfgiven power with all that bible crap, the self-written testament, the self-proclaimed judges. they claimed that a rapist and murder would be holy and laughed about the victems (maria & jesus) and today they are still trying to take advantage from that by claiming that maria thanked the r@pist for being choosen and jesus wanted to be a martyrer. but he never asked to be killed on a cross, still they use it untill today as an excuse for their own criminal activities by claiming that jesus died for all of their own sins. they are the ones who keep the money in the family = in their own pockets, they dont invest in the economy or society, they are not following democratic laws, they want their own schools but ask the taxpayers to pay for it, they raise beggers, and promote violance, murder and r@pe. you can be a criminal but their god will still give u a place in heaven if u only agree to his excistance. what kind of god is that, protecting the murders, thiefs and rapists…
“America is enslaved by the United states”. Although I agree that were living in a world run by criminals, we’re not slaves. We’re slavesnto currency and tax and all that, but we as Americans, have the right to up and leave the nation any time we choose. In fact, Americans have the most travel options out of any other nation worldwide. So technically, we are one of the most free nations in the sense that we can legally go to most nations and start a new. I mean, Americans can legally up and go to Iraq, as unstable as it is.
We not slaves?? You must learn smh
HHDX is a haven for culture vultures and fuckboy fans… Aint hardly any authentic hip hop on here
You can but would you go? I live in Texas and we all know certain places in Mexico is a no no. Also, Bill ppl right to vote is not a law is an amended allotment for a time period that congress updates. Minorities really are enslaved, look up birth certificates, ask yourself why are the owners of the fed reserve hidden and we borrow from them? When jfk was making greenbacks, freeing US from borrowing from the Queen, he died. When Gaddafi was making Africa’s own banking system, he was killed. Soooo, wake up, it’s a real problem and for parents, such as myself, I worry about the NWA agenda. The Internet has allowed all caring ppl to seek the truth and do what you can to stop it. Until the ppl resort to being as determined as the ruling classes murdering selves, then we loose the battle more and more daily
One of the best posts I’ve read on this site for a long time . Are you sure you meant to post on HHDX
It’s not just Europe and the Americas that have corrupted governments, the same shit happens in Africa and Asia…….
Africa is and has been for a long time at the top of the ‘worst despots in the world’ list
That’s the truth! But, they learned from the the best, their European colonizers!
That’s half correct. Africa has many nations. Some places treat their citizens better than the exemplary european nations. like pre-clinton Libya, Burkina Faso, Senegal, and Ethiopia. But they brought civilization to Europe, during their Dark Ages. So, history shows the opposite. But religion, famines, colonization, natural destruction, and intervention has transformed a many of them into continuous warring states.
Waiting for all the racist’s to start posting in 5,4,3,2,1 because they only read the HHDX Race baiting click for adsense HEADLINE
Yea yea you know it… #CultureVultures #EffSorenBaker
Da whole world is enslaved by banker oil compagny media war dats it ..its rules by those at da top of da pyramid..rothschild rockefeller etc +++ dey creat wars..recesaion etc
He is right about most of what he said. However, “divinity” and “divine rule” aren’t concepts that go over too well with me. Also, one doesn’t become powerful unless he/she becomes corrupted in some way because people have to be subjugated and manipulated in some sort of fashion in order for others to become powerful. There are exceptions to the rule, like Mandela and a handful of others but those are the very rare cases.
he’s right and wrong. unfortunately politics really isn’t that simple and black & white. to help some, sometimes you have to harm others, sadly.
…, By Their Own Rules
http://hbcuconnect.com//content/292013/by-their-own-rules
he’s trying to sound radical without saying anything. Is it the fact they’re the ruling class or the fact they’re white?
the ruling class anywhere can be psychopathic (absolute power corrupts absolutely). On the other hand, white people in Europe and America have had a lot of blood on their hands, and all of whites have benefited from white supremacy, whether they ruled or not. Kris doesn’t want to alienate his white fans, which is probably most of his fans today, so he’s saying a bunch of nothing. You want to call out white folks (and risk losing fans), do that. you want to take a shot at the ruling class for a cheap pop (wrestling term), do that..but once again the blast master is just blowing hot air.
Not just the ruling class. The whole race.
Wow, this sounds so edgy. And his knowledge of European medieval history seems quite weak. I’m a hip-hop fan, but this is ignorant and racist, like there aren’t any dictators in Africa or Asia, yea right
But all of the slavers, slave owners, and governments who protect their rights, in AFRICAN COUNTRIES, they’re cool. Right?
https://statista.com/statistics/1399571/people-modern-slavery-africa-country/