Folks don't want to "KNOW" anything, or put in work to recognize or have true grace, skills, ideas, genius.

They just want that shortcut/bare minimum of output to feel "relevant" or "cool" or "buy into" or whatever/however that works.

KRS-ONE is from that "SHOW & PROVE" generation, a generation where "biting" was a BIG no-no. Either you relate to that or you don't.

Folks hold a cat like 50 Cent in the KRS slot nowadays...his reasons for being hot were built more on his "HYPE" & "CIRCUMSTANCES"
(He got shot 9 times, He signed w/ Dre & Em, He beefing w/ blah-blah-blah, THEN In The Club gets mentioned).

KRS...only got paid attention to back in the day, cause that m.f. kept coming out with JAMS. Plain and simple. Cats didn't want to like Edutainment or Sex & Violence...but by the time them joints was over...SCHIIIIIIIEEEEEETTTT.

What constitutes a jam now is NOT the same criteria that constitutes a JAM then. No question.

Same goes with a cat like Big Daddy Kane...now cats looking at what you pulled up in, who you with,who you fucking, etc., etc., etc.


s.blak
Skills come after Hype now.