Krs-One News

 
David Banner Sex, Drugs & Video Games (Mixtape Review)
HipHopDX
The equal mix of entertainment and education - Edutainment as KRS-One once called it - is the broad theme behind David Banner's free album, which despite styling itself after the Grand Theft Auto series of games and running with a sensationalist ...

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VH1
Bracket Madness: KRS-One Tops Rakim For The Title Of The Greatest MC Of The Yo ...
VH1
By popular vote, KRS-One is the greatest emcee of the Yo! MTV Raps era. Of the eight lyricists selected for Bracket Madness, it all boiled down to two greats in the end: KRS-One vs. Rakim. Both legends in their own right, KRS-One takes the crown as ...
KRS-One schools New Zealand on Hip HopScoop.co.nz

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This Beat Goes
Nasty Nas Reveals His 25 Favorite Albums
This Beat Goes
Escobar added to his list several examples that he feels would be worthwhile for today's artists to look at including MC Shan's 'Down By Law' and KRS-One's 'Criminal Minded,' in spite of the fact that the record went Juice Crew who came out of Nas's ...
Nas Names "Reasonable Doubt," "Criminal Minded" In Top 25 Albums ListHipHopDX

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KRS-One schools New Zealand on Hip Hop
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
KRS-One wore a T-shirt with those 3 derivations of the words. The three spellings have completely different meanings he told us – much like the holy trinity in legend of old – where god, son and holy ghost are viewed as separate but the same – or ...

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Ras Kass Returns to Fort Lauderdale, Gets Deep, ...
Broward-Palm Beach New Times (blog)
You've said in the past you have been inspired by Ice Cube, Rakim, Scarface, and KRS-One. How has each influenced your rhyming? When it comes to rhyming, I'm similar to rappers like Common, Mos Def, and Talib Kweli. Kool G Rap and Scarface had ...

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Growing Up in the L.A. Underground
KCET (blog)
KRS One, Common, De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, Pharcyde -- the Golden Days of Hip Hop were my formative years. My friends and I listened close. By 19, writing poetry, nonstop reading, taking city drives and listening to hip hop were my primary past ...


 
A.V. Club DC
“HUNGGH!,” “WOOP!,” and “BAWSE!”: A brief history of Rick Ross noises
A.V. Club DC
seems to owe a lot of debt to rap legend KRS-One's famous '93 hit, “Sound Of Da Police.” In the song, KRS-One imitates a police siren with “WOOP!-WOOP!,” very similar to Ross'. The use of KRS' “Sound Of Da Police” became widespread soon after, ...