KRS-One: Connie Chung's Harsh Words, LL Cool J's Disobedience & Retirement The BoomBox The truth is KRS-One has always existed in extremes. The celebrated Bronx, NY, MC evolved from giving birth to the controversial rap genre known as gangsta rap to dropping a politically conscious classic. He was leader of the influential hip-hop group ...
KRS-One The BDP Album HipHopDX by Jake Paine Although "The BDP Album" might not be KRS-One's catchiest album in years, it's a worthy work to wave the flag of the trailblazing South Bronx clique. Besides Scott La Rock, one of KRS-One's most consistent musical partners since Boogie ...
The Dead End Theory: 15 Rapper Relationships That Ended In Break-Up HipHopDX KRS-One clearly maintains his seat at the table as one of Hip Hop's biggest trail-blazers, educators and late '80s, early '90s hit-makers. After Boogie Down Productions dissolved to KRS' solo career in the early '90s, the marriage reportedly went with ...
9 More MCs That Desperately Need A Name Change The Smoking Section Like KRS-One once said, “You must learn.” That's why for the third consecutive year* now, we're using up valuable page space to break some bad news to a few rappers with counter-productive rap nametags. Although we'd much rather talk about how moving ...
Ice-T's Hip Hop Documentary Picked Up for Theatrical Release This Beat Goes ... Nas, Dr. Dre, KRS One, Common and Kanye West Ice-T says that he managed to achieve his goal with the film when it debuted at Sundace on January 21 st , and never expected that it would receive an enthusiastic response let alone make it to theaters.
Gym Class Heroes -- from phys ed to the big stage Lincoln Journal Star "For me, it was bands like Green Day and Weezer, then KRS One and the Wu Tang Clan, then reggae. A wide array of the music we were listening to finds its way into our music. It's rooted in hip-hop, but I don't think it's restricted to that.
The BDP Album (2012) Punknews.org Recently, Chuck D described KRS-One as "the Duke Ellington of hip-hop." In the past three or four years, that comparison has become startlingly accurate, both in the quantity of the output of the respective artists, as well as the tactical method in ...
Veteran Rappers: Do You Really Need to Continue Making New Records? SF Weekly (blog) 2 2012 at 3:30 AM ?There was a time, back in the late '80s, when the legendary Bronx rapper KRS-One was a candidate for the title of Greatest Rapper of All Time. Twenty-five years later, though, the self-anointed Blastmaster's latest long-player, ...
