Re: [acid-jazz] knowledge reigns supreme?

From: Brian Baltin (bbaltin_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 2004-10-16 01:02:55

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    Anyone who's ever lived in New York knows that the Daily News is not a
    real newspaper at all but just an inane tabloid. They distort the words
    of essentially all their interview subjects (spanning the whole gamut
    of society) on a daily basis.
    That said, I've always felt that Kris (KRS) was a hypocrite (e.g. years
    ago hiding the fact that he drove a BMW, presumably because it would
    damage his street cred or downplay his soapbox posturing for the
    downtrodden—and that's the only offense I remember off the top of my
    head, not the reason I refused to ever buy any of his records) whose
    rhetoric contradicts himself constantly.
    As for this rebuttal, I find it mightily presumptuous (as always) that
    he allows himself to speak as an official mouthpiece for all hip-hop as
    a unified entity. While I won't dispute his claims to being one of the
    fathers of hip-hop, he's more akin to an errant father who's himself
    guilty of many contradictions, distortions, and manipulations to suit
    his pseudo-academic ramblings. Meanwhile, it's long been clear that he
    has no connection to or understanding of the independent scene that's
    been the only creative musical force sustaining hip-hop in the U.S. for
    at least the last six years.
    I won't even go into his convoluted take on the 9/11 politics that
    started this whole furor. (He'd dismiss it as I don't get it because
    I'm white.)
    I also think it's telling and bizarre that he refers to "KRS" in the
    third person...

    Best to everyone,

    Brian Baltin

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    On Oct 15, 2004, at 3:31 PM, Erik Gaderlund wrote:

    > At 02:45 PM -0700 10/15/04, Matthew Glesne wrote:
    >> i had to check on this -- and of course, we find out
    >> it is a New York Daily News article (tabloid) - and
    >> the comments were taken out of context. He made clear
    >> directly before the "cheering" quote that he was
    >> speaking for a section of american society, not
    >> himself, and those who had been discriminated and
    >> beaten by WTC security. He tried to go on to speak
    >> about the victims and other side but was cut off by
    >> the interviewer. That stuff doesn't sell broadsheet
    >> newspapers. Full respone from Kris is below. All I
    >> have to say is that sometimes stigmas and dogmas have
    >> to be broken - and real feelings expressed.
    >>
    >> Matt
    >>
    >>
    >> KRS One Rebuttal To NY Daily News Article
    >> KRS-One
    >>
    >
    > I figured as much, didn't think that Steve would format his email for
    > a missive like that. And, why is it so hard for the American Media to
    > understand context, or at least read the whole article? They let Bush
    > misrepresent/misstate his own campaign points (and flip-flop on his
    > own decisions), and then beat up on the other guy
    > <http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df10152004.html>
    > Oh well, hopefully those with an brain can look it up and maybe find
    > the real source and or the context, not just mindlessly parrot what
    > they heard--and that goes for both sides! (Bush=Hitler, and other
    > inflammatory comments from the 'Left'.)
    > Got to say the comments of KRS are interesting, certainly when the guy
    > at work doing an impression of a 'redneck troop' calling home said
    > 'We, caught us a Sand Nigger" it gave an interesting spin on how some
    > Americans view the world, and what problems that causes.
    >
    > erik g
    >