KRS-One and the Temple of HipHop "Know Thy Self" Spiritual Minded (2002)

[holylok]

fuck yeah real motherfucking rapstar I've been waiting for lyrics like these for so long I never thought they'd manifest in such a fucked up lead astray brainwashed world THANK U KRS ONE FOR THIS SONG! HIP HOP NEEDS U MAN it's going to hell in a hand basket so to speak lol

[ale1113marleo]

rapea mortal vieja escuela

[photoguy4god]

Jesus!

[Jouz92]

beutiful... true muzic to my ears :) thanks for the upload!

Welcome to the real world Neo

[ElBoogieAmworld]

just listen to KRS or get the fuck out

[tachiontemple]

this is not new age bullshit but more like ancient fuits of knowledge that has been held back from the people for to long

[CamLamp1]

KRS on some other stuff lol 

[BlackPanther280]

Faith talk is what this is

[funkrocus]

this isn't a christian album at all-i like KRS cus imma BBOY, but his believes our made up from himself.

[chj2]

@funkrocus Not completely true - KRS draws from ANCIENT precepts and concepts to formulate his own, especially Kemetic philosophy, Metaphysics and others.

[guckenberger]

ALHAMDULILAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BrooklynNiteGeneral]

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[mannymnts]

a question please...i am of latinoamerica and i dont know if krs one whit this album is gospel cristian....he is o he isnt?

[ZINCONETNG]

@mannymnts This is NOT your typical Christian Gospel music. It is the GOSPEL o f HIP HOP, the new religion for the milliniuem for the new generation. It isn't the slave-religion of christianity that our parents learned, it is beyond that.

[mannymnts]

ok thank you!!!

[bearclawkev]

@mannymnts okey no se si tu eres cristiano (nuevo) pero... vamos a ver lo que dice LA BIBLIA sobre este rapero KRS-ONE (if you dont read spanish send me a comment letting me know so and i translate it for you). aunque su letra SUENA cristiano con terminos cristianos, la biblia dice en 1 juan 4.1-3 que tenemos que probar los espiritus para ver si son de Dios. los que dicen que Jesucristo ha venido en la carne son de Dios; los que no, no son divinos, mas son espiritus anticristos. Ha dicho el que

[bearclawkev]

@mannymnts Dios no produce la confusion, sino la paz (1 corintios 14.33)

espero que esta explicacion te ayude...

[mannymnts]

@bearclawkev lo que yo no entendía era la canción, porque no entiendo tanto el inglés, mi punto de vista de cristiano lo tengo bien claro con todo gracias...lo que pasa es siendo filósofo me sorprendía que hable de Dios ya que pocos lo hacen...y la verdad ahora que escucho a los tiempos sigo sin entender bien lo que dicen las canciones de éste álbum je je je

[HalfFlask]

@mannymnts

he is not. krs one is spiritual. he is walking on the path of knowledge. he is sharing what he feels based on his information.

 its time to remove oppressive religious structure and connect to god as one sees best. or not.

[3rdeyeoptics]

minus my shit all you want, the truth is krs is NOW on some new ages bullshit....

[ZINCONETNG]

What exactly do you mean on "new age bullshit?" What does that mean and why is it bad/good for that matter?

[talo757]

ye must be born again

[bigsubsound]

Good!

[Dmarko81]

this shit is crazy...

[jonathanisgangster]

@Dmarko81 

werd

[Dwrancho144]

God's the mother ????

[ZINCONETNG]

Yes, the mother...the father, and the ALL!

God lacks gender but rather has all the attributes of everything we know of in this universe. God is all, as humans we choose to manifest God or not, free will gives us that option.

[bigbullz]

woord up

[guckenberger]

@ZINCONETNG Amin, Amen, and AUM brother!

[WhiteGlitterTV]

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[markymarkuss777]

@Dwrancho144 Luke 13:34 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a mother hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

[Dwrancho144]

@markymarkuss777

this does not say God is a mother

it gives an example using a mother and her chicks

and God is not a hen

this is just a parable, hence the term "as a mother"

[markymarkuss777]

I understand that. It proves God has both attributes of a mother and a father. That's the meaning of the parable.

[Dwrancho144]

yes God has a way of being there for you like a mother but this has nothing to do with the truth of the bible

this guy KRS-One tells his followers to know thy self ; as if God is somehow the "self"

the bible says over and over that God is Holy and we are not

the hope of eternity is that we would be brought into this Holiness of God by the power of his grace and not our own

you didn't die for your own sins

Jesus Christ did

[57worldwide]

@Dwrancho144, Does your scripture also state that the word of God, inspired by God, is the word of God? Or is it only the word of your god...

KRS-One also says that everything you see is a manifestation of God. You are a manifestation of God, you will never be happy as long as what you are longing for is distant from where you are right now. Decrease the distance

[bizzyb0ne017]

Well KRS One isn't a Christian. You are looking at it from a Christian view, as if only your view is right. KRS One speaks from experience and personal wisdom, not from a book that was pushed onto him as a child with no evidence to back it up.

[ludachris1999]

@bizzyb0ne017 its funny, you state that the bible is a book that was pushed onto a person as a child with no eveidence to back it up.... sort of like you dont believe in the bible and in God and Jesus Christ???

But yet your screen name is bizzybone? Have you listend to bizzy lately? have you heard about is spirital journey and how he found God and considers himself a Christian? And yes, Christianity IS the ONLY point of view that is right!! Nothing else, not Islam, Hindo, Budist or KRS1 coults

[bizzyb0ne017]

@ludachris1999 Just because I like bizzy's music, does not mean I have to share his faith. But anyway, he changes religions like I change socks. Your statement is typical of Christians. I'm better than you are, I'm holier than thou. But like any other theist religion, you pray to a magic man in the sky that doesn't exist. You laugh at the idea of Zeus or Ra, but you are doing the same thing.

[ludachris1999]

@bizzyb0ne017 My statement might be that of a typical Christian, because that is the CORRECT statement! Not once did i say i was "better" then you or "holier than thou".. i am a sinner just like you are, the only difference is im not too worried about where im going when i die. I do laugh at the idea of "zeus or ra" because those are fiction "gods".. The One True God has 10,000 years of proof in the form of the bible. You know its funny most Christians dont tell athiest such as yourself to prove

[ludachris1999]

@bizzyb0ne017 the existence of God or Jesus, all we usually say is disprove it! But yet for more then 1000 years NO ONE has been able to disprove it! But countless times has the old testament writtings been investigated and countless times the Word that we read now matches up Word for World with that of scripture that was written over 4000 years ago.

[dubified89]

@ludachris1999 Really so virgin women can become pregnant huh?

[KingMellow11]

@dubified89 Virgin only means "girl"

[BongMcChong]

@Dwrancho144 The greatest lie ever spun by the bible. The truth is 'God' is in the self, it is the self. To see it any other way is to disconnect yourself from all that is spiritual. 'God' is not a big man up on a cloud, but an interconnecting, omnipresent, conscious life force that links all matter/life forms. Humans are an extension of this life force/consciousness experiencing itself subjectively in the physical realm, as are all creatures and plants :)

[3rdeyeoptics]

you are correct, the truth is krs one is speaking blasphemy, i know he is not a Christian he thinks more like freemason

[InvadeNormandy]

Sorry 3rdeye, but KRS-one is anything but a freemason.

And blasphemy? Everyone elses view on spirituality is blasphemy to someone else.

Don't even try to discourage the man's message with your own slant on it.

[3rdeyeoptics]

discourage his massage? this shit is more then 10 years old its classic i kno, but i can say whatever the fk i want. thx.. i wasnt talking about the song so much as the individual today, and if you dont know the words of our heavenly father then you will never know blasphemy , cus its not how others "view" it but how GOD has preceded it to b....

[GregMacAttack]

@Dwrancho144 no... KRS-ONE actually believes God is a Goddess rather then a male God. Just his little way of spiritual representation, nothin big

[HiResolutionist]

WOW! This song is bananas! I admit I slept on this album. I went through a period of a few years when I got totally fed up with hip hop because it became so damn commercialized. I totally missed this album because I wasn't checking for new hip hop. Thanks for posting this. These lyrics, dare I say it, are the best I've heard from KRS since...it may be the best KRS track I've ever heard, no lie! Teacha, Teacha! I'm just blown away. No words to describe it.

[captainofyourstarshi]

Destroying musical truths like this is part of the plan for the elites. but real muthafukkas like this will never be overtaken by greed.

[ALToast]

KickAss Song! KRS One is amazing! ONELOVE!

[crackdadd3]

why all the hate. one

[TheKrystalRock]

real talk

[jedirock]

Peace to all the students out there, as i am one, and when the student is ready, the master WILL appear!!

Peace among the people's of earth, we need our lyric artists to spit some truth and rain on all these motherF@#$ers (nWo, Illuminati), fill the minds of the sheeple with awakening words. Lift them out of the darkness and confusion.

freespeechnetwork (dot) ning (dot) com

Take a stand for free speech on the net!

Peace

[st8yboy]

im with ya!

FUK THE ILLUMINATI

[JOEFIXIT79]

Sick Since has spoke more knowledge than KRS1 and everybody he knows combine! Sick is deeper bro, im telling! Yo! look at hip hop and the occult and i been on this shit before Old Krypton even posted his stuff.

[ZINCONETNG]

Really?? Funny because I bet if you ask SickSince who one his HIPHOP teachers has been I am sure he will mention KRS' as one of those teachers and/or influence...same goes for Tech!! But anyways, that isnt really the point.

Please back up what you say, expecially when it comes across as slanderous for one of HIP HOPs greatests MC and T'cha!! How many albums does SickSince have?

[JOEFIXIT79]

How? Albums? What does that mean? Not shit! lol! Yo! Sick Since is on the real shit not this Kris is talking thats been going on for years and Kris is not trying to tell you what really going on. He knows better.

[ZINCONETNG]

Ok I will TRUST and BELIEVE all that you have posted even though you did not back up any of it.

Maybe you should make an album or atleast a record exposing all the FAKE ASS NIGGA rappers like KRS, etc...

PEACE

[JOEFIXIT79]

Yo! you funny as hell 4 real though! lol! Yo i wish i could man but they wouldnt sign me cause i would be talking the same as sick since and they told him to change his songs. Listen to his interview.

[jedirock]

No artist is better then one or the other my brothers and sisters. We all build upon each other, let's raise up each other, so all the world can see, and hear some truth spit by some of the best minds in hip-hop and rap!!! Fuck the NWO and Illuminati, rise above them, money is nothing when life is being snuffed, and control is being tightened around our globe!

freespeechnetwork (dot) ning (dot) com

Take a stand for free speech on the net!

Peace

[JOEFIXIT79]

This nigga KRS is a mason! He aint fooling me! Fuck that nigga! Sick Since got all these niggas even Technique only goes so far but Sick Since knows the game.

[ZINCONETNG]

Woah Woah!! Nigga?? Mason?? Fooling you?? Pump your brakes homeboy...Do you have any evidence of KRS being a mason? If yes, can you show how KRS being a mason takes away from his message, this message here in this track? KRS has helped raise more conciousness than Tech and SickSince combined. 15+ albums, a wicked live show and hardcore lectures from NYC to London so what are u really saying here??

Bring it!!

[JOEFIXIT79]

Yo! I dont know how deep you dig but you better dig deeper. I know my shit! It doesnt matter if i tell you what or where i learned it from because your not gonna believe me, this is why i suggest you do your own research and dig for yourself. That nigga and all other cats is programmed. Dont be fooled bro! Look at 2pac and tell me what was the only thing he screamed out the most. Where is he? Why? Its not over west and east trust me. Mainstream=oath=slave! I know my shit bro! Digg!

[ZINCONETNG]

You didn't answer any of my questions, why not?? And FYI, I have been diggin for a long time and I have not found anything remotely close to what you are alleging here. Even if what you claim is true, you still did NOT show what effect that would have on KRS' message after 15+ albums? Either back up what you say or don't say it. And I am unsure what yo are claiming about pac either..I think any real HIP HOP head knowz it wasn't ever about east or west coast-- "It's about riderz or punkz!"

[JOEFIXIT79]

Look man, im not here to argue with you. You like KRS1 so listen to his shit and dont let his words play you. I hope you know your words and subliminals cause this is what the game is about! Words and their true meanings. Positive shit! Not negative shit and Kris has said some mind shocking, hidden shit! That nigga is enlighten and know that weak will feel it but i know my shit and im just saying you should look or listen carefully cause this nigga is just like Common Sense! Mind Control!

[ZINCONETNG]

I am not here to argue with you either but you are making some slanderous allegations with NO proof of logical reason for the slander.

What has KRS said that has been so shocking? So much so that it invalidates his overall message of PEACE, LOVE, UNITY, and Having FUN or his message of Holy Intelligent People Having Omnipresent Power?? Or R.E.A.L.I.T.Y, of when he speaks about the Goddess, the universal mother? Talk about embedding positivity into lyrics? How's that for power?

[hosefnz]

Have some respect man, KRS one of the godfathers

[BOOTCOCKIE]

THIS IS A TOP.R. BEAT....

Last Night OFF Burnin The Candle At Both Ends

[jeffilopho]

excellent!

[MShepherd88]

I've always thought that KRS's last verse in this song has one of the best flows of his entire career.

[Lizzygreenblatt]

shits wack

i expect more from kris

[ZINCONETNG]

Hey bro, we are all entitled to our own opinion but I think this track is a great. The message is most necessay especially nowadays.

Do you study the ways and means of God? I doubt you do.

[jrflashkidd]

That's whats up spiritual hip hop, something fresh and meaningful for a change.

[prolaser]

The oldest of admonitions is Man, Know Thy Self!

[Barons3333]

its good to see a rapper that knows the truth about the lord.. just dont understand y rappers like him, DMX, and others that know and mention the lord in there raps continue to use strong profanity.. u feel me?

[exfoi34]

Hands down one of the best songs I ever heard!! This is the kind of song that should be on radio and tv regularly. Hip Hop lives!

[ZINCONETNG]

Thanks for the comments yall.

Know Thy Self!!!

[mangohban]

this shit is sick....real hip hop

[MainOffenderKZ]

dope!

[HieroPharaoh]

thas wasup.

[Comicloverz]

kick ass!

[AbbottSupreme]

Word

Sound

Power

Truth!!!!

Bless up!!