KRS-One Says Call For Hip Hop Guidelines Isn't New

By: Yves Erwin Salomon

Legendary rapper KRS-One weighed in on the recent call by Russell Simmons and the Hip Hop Summit Action Network to clean up hip hop by establishing guidelines and banning certain words. KRS-One shared that he's been down this road before. The rapper said: "KRS-One said in 1994 we need standards. We need to set up a hip hop guild. We need to get a union going. Afrika Bambaataa said the same thing in 1987. In fact that's where I got it from."

KRS-One added: "So here now is Russell Simmons who says the same exact thing. We need guidelines. We need some help."

The rapper believes Simmons has an uphill battle in front of him because it will be difficult to set union form standards.

In related news, KRS-One and Marley Marl will release a new album, Hip Hop Lives, on May 22nd on Koch Records.

The first single from the project is "Kill A Rapper." The song focuses on the unsolved murder of several rap stars.