Adisa and KRS Squash It, With Bambaataa Moderating

great to see. Hip Hop is saved. Yeah.

Come on, don't be salty cuz you were proven wrong, just take the L and move on. I saw your little blog. :)

It happens to me too, but usually if the site owner notices the problem they'll fix it the aggregator problems ASAP.

Was this little pow-wow recorded? Is there any audio? The KRS-One "babbling" audio is everywhere!

So everyone recorded the beef? But no one recorded the resolution?

How counterproductive is that?

Nah, let me stop. Its all good.

I'm happy that they have settled things. It was getting out of control.

By any means necessary. Harsh, unpopular statements or calm sit-downs. It's all good.

It seems to me that it was all just a classic case of performers vs. reporters. KRS-ONE was offended that someone who merely writes about the culture would challenge him, an acknowledged architect of said culture... and Adisa probably felt he was doing everyone a favor by calling KRS-ONE out.

I'm just glad that it didn't get too crazy, which is probably what the mainstream media would like to see.

in re: my comment about people thinking that maybe KRS-ONE had a gun: I don't know who was in attendance at the panel but I assume that not everyone covering it was clued in 100% on hip-hop and rap music. I'm sure there was at least one person there who didn't want to be there but had no choice but to follow the boss' journalistic assignments. And since it only takes one person to report a negative story on a rap summit being disrupted by a rapper (it doesn't matter if it was KRS or Bun-B) I figured maybe the collegiate aspect of the panel was afraid that KRS would truly act a fool.

Everyone who knows about KRS-ONE knows he wouldn't have a gun-- it's absurd, which is what I said in the OG comment. But how many people there know KRS-ONE in that sense? A majority, I'm sure, but I am guessing that it wasn't 100%

Adisa gets an L for this.

What a complete waste of a good opportunity to expose the hip hop old guard for what it is.

"protecting Hip Hop from some very real enemies"

"Outta here" with that nonsense.

These people only care about hip hop if it fits their narrow definition.

I was at the Stanford "hip-hop scholarship meets hip-hop media" symposium and can attest to the fact that a lot of interesting and productive things were said, a lot of positive networking occurred, and it is a shame that the moment of highest tension also generated the most external attention. I can say that after the initial eruption, things settled out pretty quickly and the proceedings continued with more interesting discussions afterwards.

Despite the words spoken and the views expressed by Adisa and KRS-1, it was all talk -- in a good sense -- meaning, the individuals at the center and the rest of us assembled knew at every point that conversation would prevail. Frankly it's a wild and irresponsible speculation in this or any web site to ask whether someone at the table might have thought KRS or anyone else was packing...I doubt it. No one mentions it., but there were even several little children present in the room and no one wanted to have anything go down that might involve them. It was far cooler and rational than that decontextualized 4 minute audio clip leads people to believe.

Heated talk can be productive and essential and it reminded everyone present that some aspects of life and culture are worth expressing deep passions about, worth fighting for under certain conditions. Let's just say that Adisa and KRS and everyone else there that day cares deeply about hip-hop, just as the bloggers who have amplified the debate do. And rather than tapping into the sensation of the moment, it might be better to try to tap into the knowledge that we can carry from it.

Respect to the women at the panel that day who were chill and focused when things lit up -- again showing that they ways that women help carry social movements through stress and turmoil are essential to success. Respect also to Davey D for keeping hip-hop news and issues in motion.

Murray Forman

Glad to see this thing has reached a resolution. KRS was trippin' and all, but Adisa should have shown him more respect. He needs to realize that if it weren't for guys like Kris, there wouldn't be any Hip-Hop for him to write about. Well, anyway, glad they settled it.