SOUNDS GOOD... KEEP READING... Where Does the Gospel of Hip Hop come from? (by KRS ONE)
Post #1 Kurtiss wroteon June 4, 2009 at 3:15pm Our movement began in 1989 with the Stop the Violence Movement which produced an all-star recording entitled , “Self-Destruction”, which featured Doug E. Fresh, D-Nice, Heavy D, M.C. Lyte, Just Ice, MC Delite, Wise, Daddy-O, Fruit Kwan, Kool Moe Dee, Ms. Melodie, Public Enemy, and KRS ONE, advocating the unity of Hip Hop through non-violent conflict resolution. Through the Stop the Violence Movement’s many summits and conferences, we began to establish an authentic Hip Hop common spirit and began to give meaning and purpose to Hip Hop globally. It was around this time that we began to see ourselves as a community of specialized people; we began to refer to Hip Hop as a “culture”.
The STVM went on to inspire the West coast peace anthem, “All in the Same Gang,” featuring King Tee, Body & Soul, Def Jeff, Michel’le, Tone Loc, Above The Law, N.W.A., J.J. Fad, Young M.C., Digital Underground, Oaktown’s 3.5.7., M.C. Hammer, and Eazy-E. This effort was followed up by the 1991 Human Education Against Lies (H.E.A.L.) movement, which advocated the conduct of advanced civilization within the Hip Hop community and human ingenuity over destructive technologies and technological dependency. HEAL also produced an all star recording entitled, “Heal Yourself,” featuring Kid Capri, Big Daddy Kane, Freddy Foxxx, L.L.Cool J, M.C. Lyte, Ms. Melodie, Queen Latifah, DMC, Jam Master Jay and KRS ONE.
In 1994 we realized that rap was something that was done, while Hip Hop was something that was lived. We realized that Hip Hop was far more than just a music genre, that it was a collective urban consciousness that produced not only the expression of rapping, but also breakin, Deejayin, graffiti writing, and beat boxin. Through much debate and observation we realized the term “Hip Hop” never actually enters the physical world, and that it(Hip Hop) only becomes physical when we become it. (MY INSERT: IF IT AIN'T PHYSICAL THEN IT'S SPIRITUAL AND BECOMES MANIFEST IN THE PHYSICAL WHEN CHANNELED THROUGH OUR BODIES...) This led to the “I am Hip Hop” philosophy in 1994 and the establishment of the Temple of Hip Hop in 1996. The Temple of Hip Hop began as a Hip Hop preservation society and urban ministry focused upon the cultural expansion and spiritual development of Hip Hop. Since our beginning in 1996, our existence has served as an actual balancing force within Hip Hop’s cultural image in world history.
Our approach to Hip Hop is indeed unique. While others are still preoccupied with how Hip Hop got started, the Temple of Hip Hop focuses more upon why Hip Hop got started. Why Hip Hop and why now? These questions led us to issue a worldwide census and questionnaire in 1997 which asked thousands of “Hiphoppas”: what is Hip Hop? How would you improve upon it? What would you like to see from Hip Hop? These responses, along with the notes from our Hip Hop conferences and summits, in addition to numerous interviews with Hip Hop’s founders, artists, activists, and authors, as well as 20 years of hands-on experience, with Hip Hop’s arts and sciences, produced the body of knowledge that we now call the “Gospel of Hip Hop.”
The Gospel of Hip Hop is a uniquely written instrument designed to guide a new generation of Hiphoppas spiritually and establish the groundwork for a new Hip Hop nation. More of a reference and teaching aide, The Gospel of Hip Hop lays out a practical approach to the spiritual living of Hip Hop.
Capt'n Johnnie wroteon May 13, 2007 at 4:59pm- all inserts by Capt'n Johnny (in caps)
Many of you that know of KRS-ONE knows that he's was once a great hip hop artist. What you may not have known is that his lyrics were against the bible!
These are his lyrics from the album "Jives Unreleased Masters Vol 1"
Knowledge reigns supreme
...why do I call myself god when i'm speaking? people always ask me this when i'm teaching..........you gotta understand, kris don't exist. the only existence is god conscienciousness. and god conscienceness is what exists as kris.
the truth
from the album "krs-one"
so I say listen, listen, open up your third eye vision( IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW...THE THIRD EYE VISION IS A SIGN OF THE DEVIL)
god is not down with religion
religion they be sellin it, listen up, god is intelligent
reading of the bible is irrelevant( HIS LYRICS SAYS THE BIBLE IS IRRELEVANT)
you gotta look within yourself, not a scripture
krs-one comes to rearrange the god picture
krs-one speaks on him and his followers beliefs
in hip hop, there are no gods or goddesses. we are the gods and goddesses. we say to each other, "peace god, peace goddess." this concept has been lent to us by the 5% nation of gods and earths. however, they introduce themselves as gods and earths - women earths, men gods. in hip hop, because the 5% nation is so close to the building of hip hop's philosophy, we greet each other "peace god," but we greet our women as goddesses.
be god, stop worshipping god.(HESAYS WE SHOULD BE GOD AND STOP WORSHIPPING GOD) be god. if your religion is islam, eliminate the distance, stop worshipping allah. and be allah. if your religion is judaism, stop studying the 5 books of moses. be the law. be moses. if you are Christian, stop worshipping Jesus Christ and calling his name out. be Jesus Christ. be buddha. be krishna......(IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THAT LAST PARAGRAPH CAREFULLY YOU WOULDN'T REALIZE THAT HE SAYS NOT ONLY STOP WORSHIPPING CHRIST BUT STOP CALLING HIS NAME OUT ASWELL BECAUSE HE KNOWS THERE IS POWER IN HIS NAME) I PRAY THAT THIS HAS OPENED SOMEONES EYES!
DEVIL HORNS
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA...
ONE OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF HIP HOP... ZULU NATION ORIGINATOR
ALL SEEING EYE OF RA
CHECK OUT THEIR BELIEFS:
The 15 Beliefs of
THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION
Although the Universal Zulu Nation was into beliefs like so many other humans on this planet so-called Earth in the last millennium, we will in this millennium be leaving the belief system and will be all about factology versus beliefs. Right knowledge, right wisdom, right overstanding, right sound reasoning, to bring about right way sand actions. Right thinking. So what you see below here is of the Universal Zulu Nation of the past, the last millennium. Behold and get ready for the now millennium.
1) We believe in the one God who is called by many names – Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, Eloahim, Jah God, The Most High, The Creator, The Supreme One. We believe, as Amazulu, we will not fight or kill other human beings over which proper name to call God. We recognize them all to be the same One God. We believe God will come to be seen to the human eye and will straighten out the problems that human beings brought upon this planet so-called Earth.
2) We believe in the Holy Bible and the Glorious Qur'an and in the Scriptures of all the Prophets of God.
3) We believe that the Bible has been tampered with and must be reinterpreted, so that mankind will not be snared by the falsehoods that have been added to it.
4) We believe that through white supremacy, many of the history books, which are used to teach around the world in schools, colleges, and other places of learning, have been distorted, are full of lies, and foster hate when teach about other races in the human family. We believe that all history books that contain falsehoods should be destroyed and that there should be history books based on the True Facts of what every race has contributed to the civilization of human beings. Teach True history, not falsehoods; only then can all races, and nationalities respect, like, or maybe love each other for what our people did for the human race as a whole.
5) We believe in Truth, whatever it is. If the truth or idea you bring us is backed by facts, then we as Amazulu bare witness to this truth. Truth is Truth.
6) We believe that anyone who is into any religion or faith, that that religion or faith should uplift you as a human being, not make you into a religious slave or zombie, and that the religion should not mix falsehood with truth, and that the religion should be a fighter for Freedom, Justice, and Equality for all human beings as well as for anything of life that God has given to this planet so-called Earth.
7) We believe that racism and hate are trying to rule the lives of human beings on this planet so-called Earth and that only belief in the Supreme One and Truth will destroy this disease called racism and hate.
8) We believe that human beings have caused much harm to Mother Earth and must do something about the pollution of the air, water, land, and space. We believe that human beings have also caused harm to animals and sea life, and that humans must correct their wrongs or they will be headed for destruction as it had be prophesied by the prophets. Only human beings with the help of God can change the future.
9) We believe in the Mental Resurrection of the dead. There are many of the human race who are blind, deaf, and dumb to the Knowledge of Self and others, and we feel the ones who know should teach.
10) We believe that Life, Creation, everything, is based on Mathematics.
11) We believe in the seen and what is to be known of the unseen . We believe in the Power of the Mind, and that Knowledge is as Infinite as God himself.
12) We believe in Justice for all, whether in God or not. We believe as others we are due Equal Justice as human beings.
13) We believe that Amazulu are people of Peace, and that we respect those that respect us, and that we are at peace with those who are at peace with us, but if we are attacked by an aggressor or oppressor, then we believe and are taught that we should fight in the name of Allah, Jah, Jehovah, Yahweh, Eloahim, the Most High, God to fight those who come against us.
14) We believe in Power, Education in Truth, Freedom, Justice, Equality, Work for the People and upliftment of the People.
15) The Universal Zulu Nation stands for: Knowledge, Wisdom, Overstanding, Freedom, Justice, Equality, Peace, Unity, Love, Respect, Work, Fun, Overcoming the negative to the Positive, Economics, Mathematics, Science, Life, Truth, Facts, Faith and the Oneness of GOD.
KRS-ONE: Hip-hop Clergy KRS-ONE keeps the hip-hop religion real For more than a decade, KRS-One has been a culturally and politically visionary voice in hip-hop. On critically acclaimed albums like "Return of the Boom Bap," "I Got Next," and "KRS-One," he became an important voice for a philosophically and even religiously "humanist" perspective in hip-hop, even as most rappers were veering from pure commercialism to separatist politics. He talked to Mark LeVine last month in Los Angeles.
Why do you call your show The Divine Performance?
We look at the spiritual life as a performance before God. God is the headliner, and the stage is the world, and so you're always an opening act, no matter how popular and successful you become. So you never really perform in a complete sense, like I did and ended my performance. What you're doing is opening for God.
So in a sense this is a mystical experience.
Yes, we call it "The Great Event."
Is all music, all performance sacred?
Yes, all is sacred--every act is sacred.
How do your less spiritually attuned comrades and your fans react when you talk about this to them?
We tune into spirituality once in a while and wonder, "How is this whole thing working?" I think the kids today do this naturally. It's a bittersweet process, because it means all the systems have failed in the society. The only way you can feel spirituality naturally is when all the institutions have failed. When the institutions fail like they have in this country, you have an upsurge of youth going, "I feel something." It allows these feelings to come up.
I haven't felt any resistance to any of the spiritual concepts that I've espoused. I'm an inner-city philosopher, apart from those trying to stay in line with Plato, Aristotle, Descartes. For me, philosophy is about challenging, about thinking the different thought. Does it have to be like this? What else can it be? Today's philosophers aren't thinking like that enough, otherwise they'd embrace hip-hop.
Tell me something about the Temple of Hiphop.
The Temple of Hiphop is a hip-hop preservation society. A society of responsible hip-hoppers, a group of people who believe that hip-hop is of divine origin. It's not something that just happened to a few black kids in the Bronx and then spread. No. It's an awareness. I saw hip-hop in Brooklyn, out here on the West Coast, in England, in France. The governments suppressed it.
But in the Bronx in 1972 there was a hole in the system, and we stretched it out. ... It was an attack--well, not even an attack--but a shield against the Reagan-Bush era. We were screaming about cops selling cocaine, police brutality. All the early hip-hop albums had a song about the police, but it was only when Rodney King happened that most people in America began to understand that we were speaking the truth--like any religion.
Now to return to the Temple of Hiphop, it is hip-hop's preservation. We believe that not only is hip-hop divine, but the temple is divinely ordained, because we accept it as that. And in accepting that hip-hop is of divine origin, our temple becomes sanctioned by our God.
Who else is in this society?
Fat Joe, Kid Capri, Busta Rhymes, Redman, Lauryn Hill. When I say members, that means that they've literally filled out a form and registered. And our motto is "I am hip-hop."
Is it still just African-American artists?
It's not black, white, any color. It's a feeling of being oppressed, of being stifled, limited, not being understood, being ignored, having no voice. It's not a black issue, but an issue.
Is hip-hop still about being prophets of rage, as Public Enemy used to call themselves? I mean can hip-hop succeed in liberating people through rage?
You have to be prophets of a divine spirit. Whenever a movement is based on desperation, on desperate people who have trouble feeding and clothing themselves, or shelter themselves, in the beginning it's going to be big. Because people relate to that. "I have five children and we're all living on just mayonnaise out of a jar." When you have people like that, and someone comes and says "Isn't this wrong!" They'll go "Yeah!!" And with that emotion you get a big following. People will take their last dime and spend it on your record in hopes that something's going to happen.
What happened with my generation in hip-hop is, we got jobs, we got paid. The first generation of hip-hoppers felt that, even as they got paid by the corporations, they still had a beef with them. They were still angry at the world. No one understood their power, because no one understood black youth sitting with white and Latino youth. That's how hip-hop started--black and white and Latino youth together from day one.
No one, outside of the few people who were there, even knows that it was like this, multiracial. ... It was white kids who first ruled graffiti art. Then the Latino kids took over, because most of the white kids were from well-off families, and when they got arrested or thrown in jail their parents pulled them out of the hip-hop community. People think the first graffiti artist was a black guy named Phase Two, but a white guy named Turk 183 was out way before him, in the 1960s. There were white gangs that were tagging all over the place; women too.
What do you think performers and artists can do now to bring about a re-politicization of our culture, to take back culture from the corporations
There are several things. First, let me talk about my own campaign and then branch out. My campaign is to establish hip-hop as a culture and separate it from rap. Rap is what we do; hip-hop is what we live. That's what I can do as a United States citizen to politicize the people that I speak to, to get them to believe that they are in a culture. Once they believe that they're a unified body then we will somehow "elect" our own representatives and leaders who will go forth and speak for hip-hop culture in the world discussion.
The best thing we can do is reestablish the public education system, to take the "surplus" and put it back into education. All other arguments--campaign finance reform and the like--they're all valid. But if you can produce smart, educated, spiritual, philosophically driven people...that would be the revolution! Let's give them our theories, our best ideas, so that when they get older they can act them out and create the society we've failed to do. To me, that's the plan.
We need to create another language, and that's what hip-hop is, and that's what all new religions are.
KRS-One writes 600-page hip-hop bible; blueprint for rap religion by Nathan Rabin August 25, 2009
Hip-hop legend KRS-One has never been afraid to court controversy and provoke strong reactions. Now the Boogie Down Productions legend has topped himself by writing The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument, a mammoth treatise on the spirituality of hip-hop he hopes will some day become a sacred text of a new hip-hop religion.
Laugh if you must, but people laughed at Joseph Smith and L. Ron Hubbard when they set up their own religions. They're still laughing, and pointing, and giggle-snorting so hard milk comes out their noses. Heck, they even laughed at a sandal-wearing dude with long hair and some crazy ideas about peace and love. That long-haired mystery man? The guy who screams at passerby outside the Sears by my house to stop stealing his thoughts. Like all members of America's cultural elite, we personally worship Pan, the goat God.
Will KRS-ONE's hip-hop religion someday replace Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Bhuddism, Hinduism and (insert other religion here)? No, but, as always, we remain cautiously optimistic.
Rap religion: KRS-One to release Hip-Hop Bible August 25, 9:54 PMPortland Humanist ExaminerMicha J. Stone
KRS-One
Rap pioneer KRS-One is the self proclaimed prophet of a new religion: Hip-Hop religion. KRS-One announced he will soon release The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument, a 600-page book that examines the spirituality of Hip-Hop culture. The Hip-hop artist and founder of the Stop the Violence Movement, KRS-One, aka Boogie Down Production’s “Teacha”, claims his soon to be released spiritual book is the announcement of a new Hip-Hop religion on earth.
"I'm suggesting that in 100 years, this book will be a new religion on the earth," KRS-One said of his new book, which claims hip-hop to be the world's dominant new religion.
Well, I think I have the authority to approach God directly, I don't have to go through any religion...
I can approach God directly myself and so I wrote a book called The Gospel of Hip Hop to free us from all this nonsense garbage right now. I respect the Christianity, the Islam, the Judaism but their time is up." To recap: KRS-One's book is the new Bible, it's going to be the best selling book on earth, and no matter what God thinks, hip-hop is the new religion of the world.
The Temple of Hiphop is a ministry, archive, School, and Society (M.A.S.S.) founded by KRS-One. Its goal is to maintain and promote hip hop culture. The Temple of Hiphop maintains that hip hop is a genuine political movement and culture, as it has been accepted by the United Nations as a culture. The Temple of Hiphop calls on all hip hop fans to celebrate Hip Hop Appreciation Week, occurring in the third week of May. It encourages DJs and MCs to teach people about the culture of Hip, to write more socially conscious songs, and radio stations to play more socially conscious hip hop. Hip Hop Appreciation Week is celebrated on the third week of May each year. Hip Hop History Month (November), founded by the Universal Zulu Nation, is also recognized.
So... Can I ask you why something other than X-tianity is threatening?
They believe in one unifying God. That is positive. They believe in a lot of silly crap, but so do many churches.
Just a question.
From a Buddhist perspective, I don't believe (literally, but I see them as having infinite possible existences) in the Trinity concept of the "father" and "son", but the holy ghost is definitely and expression of the divinity of all of us and the universe we belong to. So, for others to view God as different is simply one of many colours you might choose to paint the same picture.
The part of this Hip Hop thing that I find a bit difficult is teh acceptance of violence as a part of life. I think the bluster of violence and defiance is important to people who have been beat down in life, but it is not healthy for the soul and is not conducive to finding peace in life. Truly, non-violence is the only way to become divine. Making threats and being a tough guy do not make you strong, but weak because others who are bigger or have an advantage will take you down someday. You pay with being evr vigilant in order to be a pillar of aggressive energy. Much better is to bend like a reed in the wind. Forever able to straighten out and stand up no matter what storms assail you.
it's a threat to Christians and the reason why is explained throughout. You don't believe in the trinity so I'm not addressing you. Please listen to a hip hop station in your town, if there is one, or check out some of the sites on the internet, and you will find within the content Making threats and being a tough guy, bluster of violence and defiance, people who have been beat down in life, but it is not healthy for the soul and is not conducive to finding peace in life. If you are not a Christian then you will not understand that as a Christian it is my duty to inform other believers... Free speech and it's my blog... that's also why I do it... I don't have to support something done so deceptively, and I'm not about the message they are broadcasting anyway... Thanks jp5040.
btw dude... they believe that BLACK MEN AND WOMEN ARE GODS... NOT ONE GOD... WE ARE THE GODS... I DON'T BELIEVE PEOPLE ARE GODS BECAUSE WE ALL SIN, IN THOUGHT OR IN DEED... CHECK OUT THEIR BELIEFS... ZULU=5%=TEMPLE OF HIP HOP=NEO SOUL, and their belief that JESUS IS THE WHITE MAN'S GOD OR IS NOT GOD does not comply with CHRISTIANITY by definition.
girl i know all about that site. good stuff. have you checked out vigilantcitizen.com yet? omg that one is good too. i also stay up on jack van impe ministries. he talks about this stuff too.
finishing my notes on his revelations series... i give the notes to my kids... making a book of life for them... gonna check out the site! ur a guru for sure... thanks mrs. p.
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