From: Brian Baltin (bbaltin_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 2004-10-16 01:02:55
Anyone who's ever lived in New York knows that the Daily News is not a
real newspaper at all but just an inane tabloid. They distort the words
of essentially all their interview subjects (spanning the whole gamut
of society) on a daily basis.
That said, I've always felt that Kris (KRS) was a hypocrite (e.g. years
ago hiding the fact that he drove a BMW, presumably because it would
damage his street cred or downplay his soapbox posturing for the
downtrodden—and that's the only offense I remember off the top of my
head, not the reason I refused to ever buy any of his records) whose
rhetoric contradicts himself constantly.
As for this rebuttal, I find it mightily presumptuous (as always) that
he allows himself to speak as an official mouthpiece for all hip-hop as
a unified entity. While I won't dispute his claims to being one of the
fathers of hip-hop, he's more akin to an errant father who's himself
guilty of many contradictions, distortions, and manipulations to suit
his pseudo-academic ramblings. Meanwhile, it's long been clear that he
has no connection to or understanding of the independent scene that's
been the only creative musical force sustaining hip-hop in the U.S. for
at least the last six years.
I won't even go into his convoluted take on the 9/11 politics that
started this whole furor. (He'd dismiss it as I don't get it because
I'm white.)
I also think it's telling and bizarre that he refers to "KRS" in the
third person...
Best to everyone,
Brian Baltin
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http://www.liquidatorgraphics.com/
On Oct 15, 2004, at 3:31 PM, Erik Gaderlund wrote:
> At 02:45 PM -0700 10/15/04, Matthew Glesne wrote:
>> i had to check on this -- and of course, we find out
>> it is a New York Daily News article (tabloid) - and
>> the comments were taken out of context. He made clear
>> directly before the "cheering" quote that he was
>> speaking for a section of american society, not
>> himself, and those who had been discriminated and
>> beaten by WTC security. He tried to go on to speak
>> about the victims and other side but was cut off by
>> the interviewer. That stuff doesn't sell broadsheet
>> newspapers. Full respone from Kris is below. All I
>> have to say is that sometimes stigmas and dogmas have
>> to be broken - and real feelings expressed.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>> KRS One Rebuttal To NY Daily News Article
>> KRS-One
>>
>
> I figured as much, didn't think that Steve would format his email for
> a missive like that. And, why is it so hard for the American Media to
> understand context, or at least read the whole article? They let Bush
> misrepresent/misstate his own campaign points (and flip-flop on his
> own decisions), and then beat up on the other guy
> <http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df10152004.html>
> Oh well, hopefully those with an brain can look it up and maybe find
> the real source and or the context, not just mindlessly parrot what
> they heard--and that goes for both sides! (Bush=Hitler, and other
> inflammatory comments from the 'Left'.)
> Got to say the comments of KRS are interesting, certainly when the guy
> at work doing an impression of a 'redneck troop' calling home said
> 'We, caught us a Sand Nigger" it gave an interesting spin on how some
> Americans view the world, and what problems that causes.
>
> erik g
>