Eazy-Duz-It and Straight Outta Compton - the two gangster records that scared the shit out of everybody and brought Middle America down on rap - both dropped in 1988. Krs-One was on the cover of By All Means Necessary that same year holding an uzi.
The “gangster” aspect has always been part of hip-hop, though what most people don’t understand is that it’s just as often been satirized or talked down on as praised. Go back and look at The Message. When was that, '82?
Hmm, as a literary scholar a clever way to rhyme stands out (trophe? forgot the technical term) as a polysyllabic rhyme in four lines of ‘free verse’. There is no indication that there was meant to be a third time.
I don’t know what that means, but I was referring to the fact that he rhyme “state of mind” with “way to rhyme” but then gave up on that in the third line “using nines and guns”
And yes, my mistake, late 80s would have been better.
firstly, who cares what people have to say about hiphop? 
i dont. i love it and nothing anyone says is going to change that, or destroy hiphop itself.
secondly, i dont know where you heard the out of context quote of krs-one mentioning the september 11 attacks, but he didn’t praise the attacks as you’ve implied in this comment. his quotes were taken out of context, and while i dont have the entire quote on hand, when it is read in full it clarifies his comments a lot more.
but on the topic of conscious rap, even if he had come out and praised the attacks as was implied, so what? its still conscious rap. just because you or i dont agree with what is being said doesn’t make it any less hiphop. to quote chuck d, a master of conscious rap, who you could also claim has made borderline racist comments over his time, “leave with your own mind”.
http://www.africana.com/newswire/homepage_article.asp?ID=1212
Put that in context for me. Thanks.
http://www.seanbonner.com/blog/archives/000982.php
this is part of what was mentioned on the templeofhiphop.org website, which no longer has it on the front page. this puts the comments into context a lot more. i somewhat agree with what he says, as do a lot of people. while i don’t endorse such an attack on innocent people, the attack on the US itself was a fair retaliatory response from a group of people who feel they have been attacked by the US’s foreing policies. as much as i am biased by my respect for krs-one, i think this is the context he is referring to in the comments, before he was interrupted. you know what the media is like, they can turn any quote into a spectacle just for the spectacle itself.
also at the bottom of the comments section on that link supplied is a further clarification of his comments. even with this clarification, i do think he put his foot in his mouth, but nobody is perfect, after all ‘knowledge reigns supreme over NEARLY everybody’.
Just some information this is the article that is referenced by the “radio personality”
It’s a concert preview.
Also, the guy’s time slot is 6am on Saturday mornings on an 11th ranked radio station. More people probably heard him due to this thread than the original broadcast.