We all predicted a confrontation, but not a beat down. Contrary to Kool Kim’s assertion but Hip Hop did not turn people into savages. In certain areas, that violent element has always been prevalent. BDP never shied away from it or claimed to operate outside of it.

People have this fantasy that ‘the golden age of hip hop’ was a candy coated b-boy dream of rhyming, djing, breaking & graffiti. That did NOT exist. It came from the ghetto and the ghetto is not some sweet place where inner city griots turn degrading living conditions into digestible musical odes of inspiration. If you step to the wrong person, then expect to get checked. Period. Instead of saying, “Why did he step to a soft group?”, you should be asking, “Why did this soft industry dude have the gall to name check someone who is no joke and has made an indelible imprint on Hip-Hop.”

Now with that said, the entire episode happens on the regular. That does not, however, make it right. Regardless of KRS-One’s anger, role or actions, he should not have let it get to that level. But to say that HE’S the reason Hip-Hop sucks is truly absurd. Unlike the vast majority of ‘artists, rappers & emcees’ that have come and gone, at one point in time he truly was the essence of the culture. If PM Dawn were anything but disposable wackness, they would have persevered instead of becoming a punching bag foot note.

Hip-Hop doesn’t suck anyway. There will always be acts who bring the real, with or without the industry hype behind them. Instead of magnifying a very dark incident, shine light on those talents that deserve all the attention, love and money we can give to keep this thing going.

i have just read pretty much this whole thing [my fuckin eyes are achin now]and i know people write lol on the internets all the time but fuckin hell did i laugh

robbie you are a genius for setting up this thing
funniest shit is kool kim threatening to fuck people up then calming down again and just the fact of how many comments there were in about three days
although idiots like the ones who made the last few comments[probly all the same 12 year old kid] started to get boring in the end

one thing i dont get with all this prince be sample nazi shit is who in their right mind wud want to sample pm dawn?

also when is someone gonna record a tune called’keep the violence in hip hop’?

loads of respect to kool kim noone for setting out to be controversial and succeeding

and lastly just for the record in my opinion the equation to break it all down to is this:

krs/bdp > pm dawn x umcs + x-clan + prt

peace

KRS is 1 billion times more hip hop than you’ll ever be. get off the net you little one hit wonder havin’ faggot bitch.

I always heard from real ny hip hop heads that haz g & kool kim were bisexuals. it sure looks like it in the blue cheese video. (which by the way is a mad homo video. that fruity dancing while holding that purple muppet is mad suspect. no straight guy would dance like that in any video. fo rizzle.)

hmmmmmm

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You say you been around long before KRS and never heard about ass whippins on the side of the stage. WHat are you, new? That shit’s been going on since before rappers delight. Ask Melle Mel and he’ll tell you a million stories about that shit (or is “Melle Mel” before your time?) and Mel never told those stories until recently because he didn’t want to glorify it. If you got beef with KRS why don’t you adress him about it? Or are you afraid you’ll get your ass whupped by KRS or his crew? (ever hear of Just-Ice? he’s been whippin asses of smart alec MC’s since the 80′s) Complaining about it over a decade later when it’s seemingly safer to complain about KRS seems like a bitch move on your behalf. If you’re so outspoken about it then post your interview on KRS’s myspace so HE himself can see it. Otherwise, grow up already you washed up hippie rapper. You ‘outta here’ like Kwame.