KRS-One - Hip Hop Is One lyrics

KRS-One interview:
If hip-hop has the ability
To corrupt young minds
It also has the ability to uplift them

Cause I'm seein' bright visions of
How we should be livin'
Unified, strong, makin' our own decisions

Hip-hop city, higher minds will listen
Some won't get it and find time for dissin'
But I always been ahead
Of the preservation mission
So I alway's been a head
Of the preservation mission
And what one sure way to
Preserve, what we spittin'
Reserve what we've written
Reserve how we wigglin', preserve
How we mix it, our raw sound
It's the finally established of
Small hip-hop resort town
A place for artist's from all over the earth
Could come and find peace
Could come and spit they verse
Could find support of all sorts
For arts done for fun
To achieve this, hip-hop we must become one
(KRS-One sample saying, "One"
Repeatedly in the background throughout)
We must become one, you know hip-hop is one
(KRS-One sample saying, "One"
Repeatedly in the background)

KRS Interview: So if we come with a
Balance and play everything, we
Will find ourselves not reflecting
Just product and markets, but life it'self

My style of raps hard to find
I believe that every rapper has a larger mind
But they spit the sex, spit the murder
Spit the crime cause they told if they do
It they'll be livin' fine
People know it's only music, y'all don't mind
But every now-and-then I question what
These rappers say and rhyme
Take yo time, I send this out
To every rapper sayin rhymes
And every DJ out there playin mine
You know I don't live for the prime time
But out of all these rap names
Young people should be able to find mine
Knowledge Reigning Supreme, I shine
Shine like the sun
It's time for hip-hop to become one

(KRS-One sample saying, "One"
Repeatedly in the background throughout)
Woooh yup, come on, we must become one
UNITY! That's what it's about hip-Hop is one
Yo, yeah, come on, we must become one
(KRS-One sample saying, "One"
Repeatedly in the background) kRS Interview:
Im crying out for balance along with a
Whole bunch of family around the world
They wanna to see balance

So what I'm talkin' bout
I'm talkin' bout a plan fast
We're the richest hip-hopper's
We buy a land mass put out a call to see the
Skill that every man has
I put this on the love, that every fam has
Exodus, over da sea, we can pass
Into our own hip-hop city
Turn over the sand glass
This sounds as if we just found our gift
A hip-hop town is bound to uplift
Our town has, no controls
The cops you gotta ring em up
Moms is safe, kid's you can bring em up
Just streets are patrolled by
Doctors and lawyers
Because you don't need law if
You already have order we are one

(KRS-One sample saying, "One"
Repeatedly in the background throughout)
We must become one, you know
Hip-hop is one, woooh, hip-hop is one
Yup, come on, we must become one
UNITY! That's what it's about hip-hop is one
Yo, yeah, come on, we must become one
(KRS-One sample saying, "One"
Repeatedly in the background)