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Вот тут КРС обьясняет почему он будет писать дис:
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Well... after speaking with Nelly's management, and after consulting with a few other un-named sources, in addition to some hard contemplation of my own, as well as after reading many of the email responses and hearing some of the radio responses to Nelly's performance on the remix of "Roc The Mic", I've come to the conclusion that a battle (or rather a response) to Nelly's comments may just be good for hip-hop after all. The last thing I wanted to do was look like I was using a battle with Nelly to somehow boost my career. However, my personal wants may be unimportant in the larger scheme of separating real hip-hop from fake hip-hop for future hip-hop historians.

I had put forth an 'olive branch' statement which Nelly and his management ignored! I had kept quiet as I could. Even though I am well prepared for any threat, I chose to practice restraint. His management and production team had even sent me some tracks for my Kristyle album (only later to take them back). Now I am wondering what makes Nelly think he can call me out like this? What made the staff of Universal, Roc-A-Fella or Def Jam Records think it was wise to allow Nelly to appear on such a remix and make such a statement? As I listen to Nelly's weak dis, and as I read some of these ignorant email responses, I constantly hear a repeated reference to KRS-One being "old" and "trying to make a comeback." Many of these ill advised comments miss the whole point that I make when I suggest that we, as Hiphoppas, have an important responsibility to the future preservation of what we call hip-hop.

How long are we (Hiphoppas) going to sit quietly and allow these major recording institutions to validate what success is for our culture and way of life? How long are we going to allow rap music performers to participate in our cultural degradation and international humiliation? I'm not talking about what a rapper's video looks like or the content of rapper's song. I'm talking about the idea of an industry of rappers, deejays, music editors, radio programmers and television producers allowing cultural elders to be disrespected by newcomers when such disrespect breaks hip-hop's cultural continuity! Even if my critique of Nelly's image is debatable, where is the respect for my cultural seniority and acquired wisdom? Do I not know what I am talking about? Or are we at point in hip-hop where cultural contribution takes a back seat to record sales?

Normally, I would have just sat this on out. But as I think about it, there seems to be more at stake here than whether I am perceived as arrogant, contradictory, or trying to make a comeback. The lessons that must be taught to those recording corporations, doing business with Hip-Hop Kulture, is that they cannot think their artist can disrespect a cultural elder and not expect a fierce cultural retaliation! Nelly is only a symbol for rappers that are willing to trample over the achievements and developments of over 30 years of Hip-Hop Kulture! However, the real battle is with those major distributors of rap music that care little for the preservation of hip hop's culture and actually disrespect us as they exploit us! This is unacceptable! Nelly may perform in ignorance because he is new to the game, but someone knowledgeable of hip-hop's history should have fore-warned him. Unfortunately this did not happen, and as a result, he (and his distributor) will serve as an example to all recording corporations that allow such mistakes to occur.

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