Just stumbled across this topic on google and signed up just to post in it, ya'll cats is mad disrespectful.
You know what, maybe he is a schizo, why does that matter? So he was born with a defect in his brain and that means we are gonna look down on dude? The fact he's held himself so well and done so much, while(Possibly) having schizophrenia in itself is respect worthy.
Has he fallen off musically? Thats subjective, if you don't like his new CDs whatever. You know how many cats aren't even making music? People still want to hear KRS, so he keeps making music. Meanwhile there is a laundry list of cats we would love more music from, and they don't do it. Again, in itself deserves some respect for that.
He still puts on dope shows, if you don't agree with this you're either ignorant of what a good Hip-Hop show is, or you aint never been. Ya cats that grew up back then will tell you he was better back then. You know what else they say was better back then? Hip-Hop as a whole. Just like cats from the 90s will say about 2000s Hip-Hop, and the 2000 heads will say to the 2020 heads, just like the metal heads and the jazz fans and everyone else does.
This Hip-Hop and Mars shit, pretty dumb, can't front on that. I don't know if he's speaking metaphorically(HE is known for that) he's always talking about expanding, building the Hip-Hop nation. It could easily be a metaphor for expanding.
Is it a reasonable idea? Debatable, though all signs point to it could happen but it wouldn't last. Look at all the money Hip-Hop has made, had that money actually gone into the right hands a nation could easily be supported.
THough this isn't exclusive to Hip-Hop, or even music.
Disney World is the basic equivalent.
Regardless of what you think of dude to say fuck him is just retarded. I don't care if he's done some stupid things, like the Banjoko situation. Big fucking deal. People aren't perfect, and KRS has always made it pretty clear that he's not against punching a dude in the face.
But listen up, when I was growing up and hip-hopin',
We had a lil' thing called jailhouse boxing/
That's why I'm still here rocking,
Because my competition never pulled a Glock in" - KRS-One
Stop the Violence is mostly focused around not killing eachother. Did this dispute need a fight? No, not at all but despite what he may think of himself, he's still only human and as humans we get pissed off about shit all the fucking time.