Tag: Kenny Parker

audio review : The Sneak Attack ( album ) … KRS-One

audio review : The Sneak Attack ( album ) ... KRS-One

This is KRS-One’s first album since leaving Jive; the major record label he’d been with since By All Means Necessary, which the “contradictory” Teacha also held a gun on the cover of. What this Koch debut brings is what sounds like a much lower school budget compared to his previous set, I Got Next, which included as a bonus song a remix with Puff Daddy.

There are no guest rappers here, but The MC is lyrically as “fresh” as ever. What’s stale are some of these beats and hooks. What Kinda World, Get Your Self Up and Krush Them are particularly banal. The Lessin is a good one though and the Sneak Attack title song is a banger. The album also ends with two standouts; False Pride and The Raptizm.

my rating : 3 of 5

2001

audio review : Sex And Violence ( album ) … Boogie Down Productions

Sex And Violence ( album ) ... Boogie Down Productions

Don’t be fooled by the title. KRS-One, The Teacha, is still all about Edutainment, but Edutainment doesn’t sell well. The record-buying masses want Sex And Violence, so he provides just that for this newest BDP set.

On Build And Destroy, he responds to the philosophical criticisms of what seems to be Brother J from X Clan by telling him he’ll get “fucked up”. 13 And Good is about sexing, thus statutory raping, a 13-year-old girl.

The album is raw and sloppy, almost amateurish, in comparison to the other Boogie Down productions; I would’ve also put the “rock-and-roll” bit at the beginning of the title song; but it’s still fresh… “for 1992, you suckas.”

my rating : 4 of 5

1992

audio review : 13 And Good ( song ) … KRS-One

I’m surprised to hear a song like this from KRS-One. It’s a story about him having sex with a girl who’s thirteen years old, which, as far as the law is concerned, makes him a rapist. That’s despite the fact that the girl never bothered to tell him her age until he asked. By then it was too late. They’d already done it and she’d already began to develop romantic feelings for him. “I want to be with you forever,” she tells him the next morning.

It’s a tricky predicament and a serious issue for people who go to parties looking for sex, but KRS-One handles it with misplaced satire by getting the girl’s Pops involved and ending the story with an outrageous twist. What her father does is possible but extremely unlikely under the circumstances. It’s a major turn-off on a song that was relatively believable until that point. The pointless “moral” epilogue makes it worse.

my rating : 3 of 5

1992

audio review : Sex And Violence ( album ) ... Boogie Down Productions