{"id":11953,"date":"2013-10-03T10:10:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T09:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=11953"},"modified":"2013-10-03T12:01:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T11:01:22","slug":"famous-american-rapper-of-jamaican-descent-lawrence-krisna-parker-talks-about-hare-krishna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=11953","title":{"rendered":"Famous American rapper of Jamaican descent Lawrence Krisna Parker talks about Hare Krishna"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-container\">\n       <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lz_DguzvIaY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>In an exclusive outtake from Ice-T(TM)s oeArt Of Rap documentary, KRS-One explains how helping feed the homeless led to a few name changes.<\/p>\n<p>While he answers to many aliases\u2014\u201cBlasmaster\u201d and \u201cThe Teacha\u201d to name a few\u2014people generally recognize KRS-One by his Rap name and occasionally by his given name of Kris Parker. All of the above are fine, except Kris is not his given name. It\u2019s Lawrence. In one of the many viral outtakes from Ice-T\u2019s Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap, KRS breaks down how an encounter with the Hare Krishnas led to his name change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I went into the street, I was hanging with the Hare Krishnas,\u201d KRS explained to Ice-T. \u201cThey used to come into the shelter and feed the homeless. They used to say, \u2018If anyone wants to help us feed the homeless, we\u2019ll give you a free Bhaktivedanta.\u2019 My little philosophical self said, \u2018Yeah, I\u2019ll help you feed the homeless.\u2019 And I got my Bhaktivedanta.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KRS said he developed an appreciation for a story about Lord Krishna instructing Arjuna on the battlefield. However upon returning to the shelter, the man then known as Larry Parker was uniformly teased by everyone he knew.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey started calling me Krishna, and I\u2019m like, \u2018Yo. Stop calling me Krishna. My name\u2019s Larry. Stop calling me Krishna\u2026that\u2019s the name of their god. That\u2019s like calling somebody Jesus or Muhammad if you\u2019re not down with that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parker was removed from the shelter due to failing to meet the minimum age requirements. However, due to a clerical error by the Bureau of Child Welfare Services, all of his paperwork said Krishna Parker instead of Lawrence. Krishna was shortened to Kris, and when graffiti bombing became popular, Kris\u2019 tag was shortened to K-R-S. Faced with the prospect of separating himself from the rest of the bombers named K-R-S, Parker changed his tag to KRS-One.<\/p>\n<p>You can ponder how the trajectory of Hip Hop history may or may not have been changed if MC Shan was battling Larry Parker instead of KRS-One, or simply watch the full video below. Ice-T\u2019s Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap releases in theaters Friday, June 15th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads2\/122013-10-03-11-1512.jpg\"\/><strong>By Rashad Phillips<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Better known by his stage names KRS-One, said how he developed an appreciation for a story about Lord Krishna instructing Arjuna on the battlefield<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iskcon-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}