The revered politician KRS-One labelled a puppet

KRS-One is certainly one of hip-hop’s pioneering lyricists. Alongside figures resembling Rakim and LL Cool J, the BDP emcee has develop into an icon of the Eighties and one of the vital prevalent representatives of gold-age rap music. 

Nevertheless, as a strong-minded, outspoken and educated man, the South Bronx musician (actual title Lawrence Parker) has continued to offer commentary on the tradition that birthed him and voice his issues surrounding the flawed state of America.

KRS-One has at all times had a deep understanding and profound issues surrounding race relations within the US, and along with his stepfather having grown up in Sixties Harlem, the place Malcolm X was assassinated, Parker has at all times felt obliged to hold on the work of those that handed away throughout the civil rights movement.

In 2009, the controversial and extremely incendiary political commentator Alex Jones produced a documentary that featured KRS-One. Jones, the presenter of the notorious on-line present InfoWars, has been described as numerous issues through the years. From a conspiracy theorist to a white supremacist, the host has discovered himself banned from many social media platforms. 

Nevertheless, no matter his fame, KRS-One was nonetheless completely satisfied to look in his documentary The Obama Deception, which tried to elucidate how the president was merely a puppet seeking to steal cash from the American public and orchestrate a totalitarian world authorities.

Though Parker didn’t phrase it so bluntly, he was in some settlement with the final message of the documentary and was eager to offer his opinion on Obama and dismiss the notion that America’s first black president would do something for black folks. 

The New York lyricist referenced a “New World Order”, an thought and conspiracy idea that has now develop into a big a part of political discourse. Talking about why black hope about Obama’s presidency was in useless, Parker said, “If [the New World Order] controlled it before, what makes you think they’re not controlling it now?”

He continued, “The country was on the verge of revolution. They threw a black man up, now we like this (complacent). They put a black face on the New World Order, and now we all happy. KRS ain’t buying it.”

KRS revealed that he was totally unbothered by the abuse he confronted resulting from opposing Obama within the lead-up to the 2008 presidential election and said that he simply desires his message to go so far as attainable.

Concluding with some hard-hitting truths, Parker exclaimed, “Fuck all the dumb shit, he is the President, and he has people that he must answer to that are not me and are not you, and they don’t have our interest in mind! No government does in that sense. It’s about people power, so in that instance, I’m not ashamed of the message.”

You possibly can watch KRS-One discuss Obama on the 15:39 mark of the video beneath.