2022
Tag: KRS-One
Innocent ( song ) … KRS-One ( featuring Sun-One )
2022
audio review : IMAMCRU12 ( album ) … KRS-One
This album is best at The Beginning and end. The former has KRS-One rapping “straight thru”; something he should do more often because, like most MCs, his skills decline at the breaks. When he passes the mic to a guest vocalist with “the right hook”, as he does with wife G Simone on the latter; a melodic life lesson entitled Think Bigger; “the song becomes a knockout”.
The ones in-between are mostly mediocre. At 50-something, Kris still spits better (raps) than most of his students, but Can You Dance; a tribute to old-school hip-hop dances like the wop; sounds like an unfinished demo. The worst thing about the album though is the title. IMAMCRU1? Get it? No? Well, there’s a whole song to explain it. Not that it’ll make it any less lame.
my rating : 3 of 5
2022
IMAMCRU12 ( album ) … KRS-One
2022
a DJ Klay Slay rap collaboration : Rolling 110 Deep
2021
promo : KRS-One’s new album
release date : 2022
audio review : Breath Control 2 ( song ) … KRS-One
This beat, perhaps the best KRS-One’s ever rapped to, should’ve been put aside for a different artist. It’s a marvelous reggae loop that would’ve been perfect for, say, a Jamal-Ski song for Jamaican girls to shake their butts to. KRS-One is too obsessed with his skills as an MC to allow such mindless fun.
To be clear, it is a good song. Not just for the beat but also KRS-One’s vocal delivery and flow, which goes nicely with it. It’s the concept; a very unnecessary sequel to Breath Control; it would be better without. Even worse is how he dates it by mentioning the year during the “dope style” introduction.
my rating : 4 of 5
1990
Never Afraid ( song demo ) … KRS-One
2010
Never Forget ( song demo ) … KRS-One
2013
Never Forget ( album demo ) … KRS-One
2013
Now Hear This ( album ) … KRS-One
2015