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KRS One (born Lawrence Parker on August 20, 1965, but known throughout his career by several monikers including Kris Parker, The Blastmaster, and The Teacha) is a rapper from the Bronx, New York City. Young Kris Parker first adopted his most famous pseudonym when writing graffiti (bombing) in his neighbourhood of the Bronx - he would sign his artwork as KRIS-One, which later became KRS-1, or KRS-ONE. Together with DJ Scott la Rock, he formed Boogie Down Productions. Their debut album - Criminal Minded - contained mainly dissing records and tracks about crime ("wa da da deng wa da da deng, listen to my nine millimeter go bang"), using James Brown samples and reggae influences. During these years, KRS-One was also famously involved in a rap battle (a beef) with MC Shan, of Queensbridge. KRS objected to MC Shan calling Queensbridge the home of hip-hop, and attacked him viciously on a seminal battle track, The Bridge is Ova.After Scott la Rock got shot, Boogie Down Productions got more and more political, making what is known as conscious rap. KRS One was also the mastermind behind the HEAL compilation and the Stop the Violence Movement that has its own manifesto with the 12" "Self Destruction" featuring many popular rappers. As Kris Parker adopted this more-conscientious, less-violent approach, he stopped calling himself The Blastmaster (his battle rap nickname), and instead began calling himself The Teacha, turning the nickname KRS-ONE into an acronym (Knowledge Reigns Supreme - Over Nearly Everything).
On his first solo album, KRS worked together with producers DJ Premier ( Gang Starr), Showbiz and Kid Capri . The catchy yet very hardcore track "Sound of da Police" is featured on this album. His second album, KRS One featured Channel Live on the track "Free MumiaMumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook April 24, 1954) is a convicted murderer, journalist and political activist. He is most famous for his 1982 conviction and death sentence on charges of murdering a police officer, and for the large subsequent campaigns for" as well as Mad Lion , Busta RhymesTrevor Smith Jr. born May 20, 1972), better known as Busta Rhymes is an American hip hop musician. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Uniondale, New York. At 12 his family moved to Long Island where he met up with other MCs from the growing, Das EFX and Fat JoeFat Joe is a Puerto Rican rapper from the Bronx, who was popular in the underground rap scene during the early and mid- 1990s. After Joe's rap partner, the similarly large, Puerto Rican, Bronx-based rapper, Big Pun, broke into the mainstream with his duet. Sursprisingly enough, 19971997 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Reef''. Events January January 3 NBC's Today Show Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time January 8 Mister Rogers receives a star on t's "I Got Next" included a remix of the new hit "Step into a World" (with a sample from BlondieBlondie is a very popular band that first gained fame in the 1970s and early 1980s. The group was founded in August 1974 in New York, New York by Deborah Harry of Wind in the Willows and Chris Stein of The Stilettos. Sometimes disco, sometimes punk, somet's "Rapture") by commercial rap icon Puff Daddy. "Hearbeat", featuring Angie MartinezAngie Martinez is a Bronx-born Puerto Rican, who made a name for herself as a disc jockey on New York's hip hop radio station Hot 97. She debuted her rapping skills in the late 90s, first appearing on Lil' Kim's 1997 hit remix, "Not Tonite" from the. and RedmanRedman (born April 17 1970) is a rapper who became popular in cooperation with Def Jam in the 1990s. Biography Born Reggie Noble in Newark, New Jersey, Redman made his rapping debut on the EPMD songs "Hardcore" and "Brothers on my Jock". Redman's 1992 Def, was based on the old school classic "Feel the Heartbeat" by the Treacherous Three .
After many BDP albums and the solo albums, Jive Records decided to drop KRS, and his 2001 album was released on Koch. In 2002, he released a gospel-rap album, Spiritual Minded, surprising many longtime fans since he had once criticized Christianity as being a "slavemaster religion" which blacks should not follow. He founded the Temple of Hip-Hop , and released a new album, Kristyles , in late 2002, as well as a new mixtape of classics and a few new tracks, KRS-One: The Mixtape . He has most recently released Get Right in the summer of 2004.
In 2004, KRS engendered a controversy by expressing solidarity with Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. Saying that African-Americans "cheered" when the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks occurred, KRS called the destruction of the World Trade Center "justice" against the buildings occupants, who he accused of keeping African-Americans out of the towers because of their style of dress and manner of speech.
