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Our hip-hop is in the building with Talib Kweli
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We're here in the Bronx. We're outside. We're outside celebrating 50 years of hip-hop
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So you've been on the front lines, you've been on so many different levels of the culture
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What do you think about not only this celebration but kind of moving forward
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It's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing for a lot of these people who are 50 years in age and up and
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have been there at the beginning. I'm seeing so many legends walk by. I was at Yankee Stadium last night and it was great to see that acknowledged for the
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fans and the consumers. There are people, we of hip-hop of age, like I bought my whole team tickets
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Somebody put me on a list but I couldn't bring the whole team. I bought the whole team tickets and it wasn't cheap
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But as a grown man I could afford it. Not everybody could afford it
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And so for KRS-One to do this event, free for the people, and to see, I'm seeing all
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the OGs come through. We don't need these systems. We have our own communities
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We have our own, as KRS would put it, sovereign nations, which he said on your show
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I just appreciate the warmth and the energy and the fact that everybody's here for one cause
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It doesn't matter if there's people of all races, there's people of all religions, all
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genders, genres of people, whatever you want to call it, we're all here for hip-hop and
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I love it. You've been able to transcend just rap. How do you feel that plays into what we need to be doing, not only for the artists but
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for the general public and population of the culture? I feel like as a man, the way I was raised is to respect and take care of the community
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that you come from. But not everybody's raised that way. So I just got to lead by example
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I consider this hip-hop a community. We are community. You and me, there's things that I've called you about throughout the years, criticisms
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debates, but it's always with love because the attention is always the same
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It's always to uplift the community. It's always to be solution-oriented. That's what being a community is about
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Everybody get together, everybody share ideas, and what's the best for the community
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We don't have to like each other, we don't have to agree on everything, but if we're all part of this community, we have to take care of each other
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So what's next for you? You seem like you're everywhere. I am everywhere
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I actually respect it because you, I don't know, it's mind-blowing. I'm like, yo, this guy's here, he's doing this thing with this person, he's doing that thing
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What's next? What's up with you right now? Right now I got Jessica Caremore and Stephanie Christiane, I'm about to drop their album
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We Are Scorpio. I'm working on this record with Bun B that we've been tapping in with
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Of course we got the Blackstar. Blackstar, No Fear of Time, produced by Madlib, is on Bandcamp exclusively
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If you want to buy it, download it, you can on Bandcamp. Me and Madlib, Liberation, the vinyl for that is dropping in a couple of weeks
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Blackstar vinyl dropping in a couple of weeks, I'm just keeping it bush. Appreciate you
