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KRS-One Will Sue Radio Stations If They Play His Music
XXL Mag ^ | 9/13/13 | B.J. Steiner

Posted on 09/14/2013 9:21:19 AM PDT by raccoonradio

In a recent interview with whomag.net, KRS-One explained why his music is never played on mainstream radio stations. Apparently, KRS-One will sue radio stations if they play his music.

“If the radio ever played my music, I would sue them,” KRS-One told whomag.net “And they know it, which is why they don’t play my music. If you play KRS, I’ll sue you. Straight up. I don’t even want my music on mainstream radio. They don’t deserve it. They destroy careers.”

Elaborating further, KRS-One explained why he never felt the need to crossover with mainstream audiences.

“Here’s a secret,” KRS explained. “I’m going to drop a jewel on you right now. Less is more. Small is big. Marketing and promotion is s---. Physics, mathematics, and cosmology. Why do we breathe? What is oxygen? This is the truth. I only want the truth. I existed before the mainstream. Why would I join them? I watched the mainstream come up and now I’m watching it collapse. I don’t want to be a part of that. I was born in Hip Hop. That’s all I ever needed. That’s it.”


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: krsone; radio; specialkindofstupid; wgaf
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Mr One is featured in REM's "Radio Song"

video. "Hey...I can't find nothin' on the radio. Yo, turn to that station..."

"I wanna bite the hand that feeds me, I wanna bite that hand so badly, I wanna wish they had never seen me; so you had better do what you are told, you better listen to the radio."--Elvis Costello

So, nice way to get people exposed to your "music"--suing radio stations nice enough to play you. Maybe this is a viral thing, I don't know, but screw you, Mr. One.

1 posted on 09/14/2013 9:21:19 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

who is KRS one and why should we care


2 posted on 09/14/2013 9:23:54 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

Crap rapper. I just thought it funny that he’s biting the hand that feeds him. Acc to Wikipedia, his instruments are
vocals and turntable.

And even if you disagree with the sentiments, “Radio Song” is a pretty catchy tune. Go ahead, radio stations, play it.
See if he’ll sue ya.


3 posted on 09/14/2013 9:27:17 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

nice spin on why nobody wants to play his junk


4 posted on 09/14/2013 9:28:10 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: yldstrk

... have never heard of him, and i guess he likes it that way...


5 posted on 09/14/2013 9:29:44 AM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: raccoonradio

“Radio Song” is R.E.M’s third worst song next to “Shiny Happy People” and “Everybody Hurts”.


6 posted on 09/14/2013 9:30:45 AM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: yldstrk

Apparently, he is some kind of young punk black rap-assthat thinks he’s all that.

Let’s watch him mouth off too much and get TuPac’d.....


7 posted on 09/14/2013 9:31:49 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: raccoonradio

Would that all rappers follow his lead!


8 posted on 09/14/2013 9:31:59 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: raccoonradio

I would think that a musician would want as many people to hear their music as possible...oh well, time to move on to something more important like what kind of way to use on my truck.


9 posted on 09/14/2013 9:32:14 AM PDT by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Restoration of the Republic)
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To: raccoonradio

Hey, he stole my idea.


10 posted on 09/14/2013 9:32:52 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: 3Fingas

what kind of wax...that is ... :=D


11 posted on 09/14/2013 9:33:06 AM PDT by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Restoration of the Republic)
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

It has been a very long time since R.E.M. was cool.


12 posted on 09/14/2013 9:33:12 AM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: raccoonradio
guess it works, i never heard of the mutt...
13 posted on 09/14/2013 9:33:16 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: raccoonradio

whomag indeed. Who or what is a KRS-One?


14 posted on 09/14/2013 9:33:21 AM PDT by csvset
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To: Carpe Cerevisi
“Radio Song” is R.E.M’s third worst song next to “Shiny Happy People”

"Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey! Pull that bus over to the side of the pretentiousness turnpike, alright!? I want everybody off the bus. I want the shiny people over here, and the happy people over here, ok! I represent angry gun-toting meat-eating f----ng people, alright!" Sit down and shut the ---- up Michael!" - Dennis Leary

15 posted on 09/14/2013 9:34:52 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

‘Radio Free Europe’ is still my favorite REM song. Haven’t liked much of anything they have done since.


16 posted on 09/14/2013 9:36:56 AM PDT by Hoodat (BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

Hmm, I actually do like it though...they kind of work the melody of “Nightswimming” into it at one point. Stipe and
fellow alternative-lifestyle singer Kate Pierson of the B52s sang “Shiny Happy Monsters” on Sesame Street, I read...


17 posted on 09/14/2013 9:38:11 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

I’ll give you “Shiny Happy” and “Everybody Hurts”... “Radio Song” is tolerable, in comparison.

“Monster” and everything after that is pretty much un-listenable. “Reckoning” and “Fables of the Reconstruction” are still my favorites.


18 posted on 09/14/2013 9:39:29 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (If you don't stand up, you don't stand a chance.)
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To: Gaffer

Not exactly young; in 07 his adult stepson committed suicide. KRS was born in 65 acc to Wikipedia; “Randy Hubbard Parker, stepson of KRS-One, was found dead in his Atlanta, Georgia apartment on July 6, 2007 in an apparent suicide; he was 23. Simone Parker, KRS-One’s wife and Randy’s mother, released a statement on July 10 that stated her son’s death was related to his continuous battle with “severe depression”. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office stated that Parker died of a gunshot wound to the head, and listed the cause of death as suicide”


19 posted on 09/14/2013 9:40:00 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: 3Fingas

That’s why it made me laugh. The fool.


20 posted on 09/14/2013 9:40:24 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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