What are the best KRS-One tracks?

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O: Do you feel like people have a bias against older rappers?

KRS: Just black people do. Just black executives have a bias against older artists. We don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look at every Martin Luther King Boulevard out here, and it's a crack block. That's not because of white people. That's because of black leadership. We just have that problem, and it's something that I am going to spend the rest of my life trying to conquer. So, yeah, when it comes to the artists themselves, you look at someone like myself. It's these black DJs that are like, "Aww, man, KRS. He always preaching. Aww, man." But you go to the white DJs, and they can rattle off my songs. It's so funny that, when Public Enemy was out, their whole audience was white. And they're like, "Farrakhan, don't say you understand until you hear the man," and "Fight The Power," or "Don't Believe The Hype," and it's white kids that are chanting the lyrics and benefiting from that kind of thinking. And black folk look at Public Enemy, and the best thing we could do is say of Public Enemy's last album, "Oh, his beats was wack." Regardless of the message, regardless of anything else, "Oh, Chuck could've came with a better beat. He should've got [DJ] Premier. He should've went to Dr. Dre." This is the extent of our respect for our older artists, and I think it's a shame. I think it's appalling, and I think it's one of the cancers of our race.

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