KRS-One Reveals Major Gripe With Hip Hop & Rap Deaths

KRS-One has called Hip Hop to task when it comes to the way in which the genre’s legends are celebrated. In a new interview with Houston radio station 97.9 The Box published on Tuesday (September 3), The Teacher was asked to share his thoughts on the shocking death of Fatman Scoop. AD LOADING… While giving the legendary New York City DJ his flowers, KRS-One also took the opportunity to call out the Hip Hop community for not celebrating its heroes while they are still alive to bask in and benefit from the praise. “That energy should be on the radio,” the Bronx legend started. “It’s a shame that now that he’s passed that we’re talking about him in this way. Hip Hop gotta stop doing that. Like, only when dudes pass, that’s when they get honored and stuff like that. We shoulda been looking to Fatman Scoop when his career was blowin’ up. He never got played on no stations or nothing like that. Only DJs that knew would throw his music on.” Asked to compare the way in which Hip Hop celebrates its pioneers and legends to the way in which other genres do it, KRS-One made it clear...