KRS-One

Lawrence Krisna Parker (born August 20, 1965), better known by his stage names KRS-One, and Teacha, is
an American rapper and occasional producer from The
Bronx, New York City, New York. KRS-One rose to
prominence as part of the group Boogie Down Productions, which he formed with DJ Scott La Rock in the late
1980s. Following the release of the groups debut album,
Criminal Minded, La Rock was shot dead, but KRS-One
continued the group, eectively as a solo project. He began releasing records under his own name in 1993.

ensue with Shans Kill That Noise and BDPs The

Bridge Is Over. KRS-One, demonstrating his nickname
The Blastmaster, gave a live performance that devastated MC Shan, and many conceded he had won the battle. Many believe this live performance to be the rst MC
battle where rappers attack each other, instead of a battle
between who can get the crowd more hyped.[1]
Parker and Sterling decided to form a rap group together, initially calling themselves Scott La Rock and
the Celebrity Three. That was short-lived, however, as
the two peripheral members quit, leaving Parker (now
calling himself KRS-One) and Sterling. They then decided to call themselves Boogie Down Productions,
Success is the Word, a 12-inch single produced by
David Kenneth Eng and Kenny Beck was released on indie Fresh/Sleeping Bag Records (under the group name
12:41) but did not enjoy commercial success. Boogie Down Productions released their debut album Criminal Minded in 1987. The album, whose cover pictured
BDP draped in ammunition and brandishing guns, is often credited with setting the template for the burgeoning
genres of hardcore and gangsta rap. Scott La Rock was
killed in a shooting later that year, after attempting to
mediate a dispute between teenager and BDP member
Derrick D-Nice Jones and local hoodlums.

KRS-One is noted to be a politically active musician having started the Stop the Violence Movement, after the
death of Scott La Rock, and the Temple of Hip Hop, as
well as addressing political issues in his music.

Biography

Lawrence Parker was born in the Bronx, New York in

1965. Parker left home at 16 to become an MC, coming
to live at a homeless shelter in the South Bronx where he
was dubbed Krishna by residents because of his interest
in the Hare Krishna spirituality of some of the antipoverty
workers. By the time he met youth counselor Scott Sterling, he was also writing grati as KRS-One (Knowledge
Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone). Together he
and Sterling, a.k.a. DJ Scott La Rock eventually created
Boogie Down Productions, releasing their debut album,
Criminal Minded, in 1987.

1.1

During this time KRS-One also gained acclaim as one

of the rst MCs to incorporate Jamaican style into hiphop, using the Zung gu zung melody, originally made famous by Yellowman in Jamaican dance halls earlier in
the decade.[2] While KRS-One used Zunguzung styles in
a more powerful and controversial manner, especially in
his song titled Remix for P is Free, he can still be credited as one of the more inuential gures to bridge the
gap between Jamaican music and American Hip-Hop.

Boogie Down Productions

Main article: Boogie Down Productions

Following the fatal shooting of Scott La Rock in 1987,

KRS was determined to continue Boogie Down Productions through the tragedy, releasing the album By All
Means Necessary in 1988. He was joined by beatboxer
D-Nice, rapper Ramona Ms. Melodie Parker (whose
marriage to Kris would last from 1988 to 1992), and
Kriss younger brother DJ Kenny Parker, among others.
However, Boogie Down Productions would remain Kriss
show, and their content would become increasingly political through its subsequent releases Ghetto Music: The
Blueprint of Hip Hop, Edutainment, Live Hardcore Worldwide and Sex and Violence.

KRS-One began his recording career as one third of the

hip hop group Boogie Down Productions, or BDP, alongside DJ Scott La Rock and Derrick D-Nice Jones. After being rejected by radio DJs Mr. Magic and Marley
Marl, KRS-One would go on to diss the two and those associated with them, sparking what would later be known
as The Bridge Wars. Additionally, KRS had taken offense to The Bridge, a song by Marley Marls protege, MC Shan (later on, KRS One produced an album
with Marley Marl in 2007); the song could be interpreted as a claim that Queensbridge was the monument
of Hiphop, though MC Shan has repeatedly denied this KRS-One was the primary initiator behind the H.E.A.L.
claim. Still, KRS dissed the song with the BDP record compilation and the Stop the Violence Movement; for the
South Bronx"; next, a second round of volleys would
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latter he would attract many prominent MCs to appear on

the 12-inch single Self Destruction. As Parker adopted
this humanist, less defensive approach, he turned away
from his Blastmaster persona and towards that of The
Teacha, although he has constantly used Blastmaster
throughout his career.

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Solo career

KRS-One performing in Belgium in May 2006.

After ve largely solo albums under the name Boogie

Down Productions, KRS-One decided to set out on his
own. On his rst solo album, 1993s Return of the Boom
Bap, Parker worked together with producers DJ Premier,
Kid Capri and Showbiz, the latter providing the catchyyet-hardcore track "Sound of da Police". His second album, 1995s KRS-One, featured Channel Live on Free
Mumia, a song in which they criticize Black Civil Rights
Activist C. Delores Tucker among others. Other prominent guest stars on KRS One included Mad Lion, Rimo,
Busta Rhymes, Das EFX and Fat Joe.

by a remix featuring commercial rap icon Pu Daddy; another track was essentially a rock song. While the record
would be his best-selling solo album (reaching #3 on the
Billboard 200), such collaborations with notably mainstream artists and prominent, easily recognizable samples
took many fans and observers of the vehemently antimainstream KRS-One by surprise. However, in August
1997, Parker appeared on Tim Westwood's BBC Radio
1 show and vociferously denounced the DJ and the radio station more generally, accusing them of ignoring his
style of Hip Hop in favor of commercial artists such as
Pu Daddy. Although having not been in the UK since
1991, due to the fact he does not y, he claimed to be in
touch with the people, and said that they weren't feeling
Westwood, hes a sell out and has sold his soul to the dark
side. This sparked controversy in the UK since Radio
One was one of the main supporters of the single Step
Into My World and caused the album to be his best selling. Parker has since visited the UK, most notably in May
2007, in a performance at the Royal Albert Hall where he
once again dissed Tim Westwood in a freestyle.
In 1999, there were tentative plans to release Maximum
Strength; a lead single, 5 Boroughs, was released on
The Corruptor movie soundtrack. However, Parker apparently decided to abort the albums planned release,
just as he had secured a position as a Vice-President of
A&R at Reprise Records. The shelved album was again
scheduled to be released in 2008, but ultimately an unrelated album entitled Maximum Strength 2008 was released in its place. He moved to southern California, and
stayed there for two years, ending his relationship with
Jive Records with A Retrospective in 2000.
Parker resigned from his A&R position at Reprise in
2001, and returned to recording with a string of albums, beginning with 2001s The Sneak Attack on Koch
Records. In 2002, he released a gospel-rap album,
Spiritual Minded, surprising many longtime fans; Parker
had once denounced Christianity as a "slavemaster religion which African-Americans should not follow. During this period, KRS founded the Temple of Hiphop, an
organization to preserve and promote "Hiphop Kulture".
Other releases have since included 2003s Kristyles and
D.I.G.I.T.A.L., 2004s Keep Right, and 2006s Life.

In 1991, KRS-One appeared on the alternative rock The only latter-day KRS-One album to gain any signigroup R.E.M.'s single "Radio Song", which appeared on cant attention has been Hip-Hop Lives, his 2007 collaboration with fellow hip hop veteran Marley Marl, due in
the bands album Out of Time, released the same year.
large part to the pairs legendary beef, but also the tiIn 1992, Bradley Nowell from Sublime featured an acoustles apparent response to Nas' 2006 release Hip-Hop Is
tic song named KRS-One with his voice and DJs samDead. While many critics have commented they would
plers.
have been a lot more excited had this collaboration ocIn 1995, KRS organized a group called Channel Live, curred twenty years earlier, the album has been met with
whose album Station Identication he produced most of, positive reviews. KRS One has appeared on several songs
along with Rheji Burrell and Salaam Remi.
with other artists, due to this he has received 9 Gold and
In 1997, Parker surprised many with his release of the 7 Platinum plaques.
album I Got Next. The albums lead single Step into a KRS One has collaborated with several artists including
World (Raptures Delight)", containing an interpolation Canadian Rap group Hellafactz, Jay-Roc N' Jakebeatz
of punk and new wave group Blondie, was accompanied

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Stop the Violence Movement

and New York producer Domingo among other. He and

Domingo publicly squashed their beef that started over
nancial issues and released a digital single to iTunes on
November 25. The single titled Radio will also feature Utah up and comer Eneeone and is dedicated to
underground MCs that don't get the radio airplay they
deserve.[3] In 2009 KRS One guest starred on several albums including Arts & Entertainment on the song Pass
the Mic by fellow Hip Hop veterans Masta Ace & Ed
O.G and featured on the posse cut Mega Fresh X by
Cormega (alongside with DJ Red Alert, Parrish Smith,
Grand Puba, & Big Daddy Kane) on his album Born and
Raised.
KRS One and Buckshot announced that they would be
collaborating on an album set to be released in 2009. The
rst single, ROBOT, was released on May 5, 2009. The
music video was directed by Todd Angkasuwan and debuted as the New Joint of the Day on 106 & Park on
September 4, 2009. The album leaked on the Internet
on September 9, 2009 and released album was released
on September 15, 2009. It debuted at #62, making it
on The Billboard 200 selling around 8,500 copies its rst
week and was met with generally positive reviews. Steve
Juon of RapReviews.com gave the album a awless 10
out of 10, claiming Buckshot and KRS have achieved
something rather remarkable here an album I can't nd
a single fault with. Theres not a bad beat, theres not a
whack rhyme, theres not a collaborator on a track that
missed the mark, and the disc itself is neither too short
nor too long.[4]

1.3 Stop the Violence Movement

Main article: Stop the Violence Movement
The Stop the Violence Movement was formed by KRSOne in 1988/1989 in response to violence in the hip hop
and black communities.
During a concert by Boogie Down Productions and Public
Enemy a young fan was killed in a ght. Coming soon after the shooting death of his friend and fellow BDP member Scott La Rock, KRS-One was galvanized into action
and formed the Stop the Violence Movement. Composed
of some of the biggest stars in contemporary East Coast
hip hop, the movement released a single, Self Destruction, in 1989, with all proceeds going to the National
Urban League.[10] A music video was created, and a VHS
cassette entitled Overcoming Self-Destruction The Making of the Self-Destruction Video was also released.
Self-Destruction was produced by KRS-One and DNice of Boogie Down Productions (Hank Shocklee of
The Bomb Squad is credited as an associate producer).

1.4 Temple of Hip Hop

The Temple of Hip Hop is a ministry, archive, School,
and Society (M.A.S.S.) founded by KRS-One. Its goal is
to maintain and promote Hiphop Culture. The Temple
of Hip Hop maintains that Hip Hop is a genuine political movement, religion, and culture, as it has been accepted by the United Nations as a religion. The Temple
of Hiphop calls on all Hip Hop fans to celebrate Hip Hop
Appreciation Week. It encourages DJs and MCs to teach
people about the culture of Hiphop, to write more socially
conscious songs, and radio stations to play more socially
conscious hip hop. Hip Hop Appreciation Week is celebrated on the third week of May each year. Hip Hop History Month (November), founded by the Universal Zulu
Nation, is also recognized.

In 2010 KRS One was honored along with Buckshot

by artists Ruste Juxx, Torae & Skyzoo, Sha Stimuli,
Promise, J.A.M.E.S. Watts and Team Facelift to name a
few on their mixtape 'Survival Kit' which is an ode to the
2009 album Survival Skills by KRS One and Buckshot.
The mixtape was released for free download on DuckDown.com. The album features new version of KRS classics 'South Bronx', 'Sound Of Da Police' and 'MCs Act
Like They Don't Know' as well as new versions of well
known Buckshot songs and 'Past Present Future' from the
Survival Skills album. The MC Fashawn stated in his
verse on MCs Act Like They Don't Know that 'I did it 1.5 September 11 comments
to make Kris smile I gured he'd appreciate it'[5]
KRS One was featured as the voice of Chris Cringle in In 2004, KRS engendered a controversy when he was
the new Nike Most Valuable Puppets commercials. KRS quoted in a panel discussion hosted by The New Yorker
One performed in May 2010 at SUNY New Paltz for their magazine as saying that we cheered when 9/11 hapannual Rock Against Racism concert. KRS One also pened. His philosophy drew criticism from many
narrated the 2011 lm Rhyme and Punishment, a docu- sources, including a pointed barb by the New York Daily
mentary about Hip-Hop artists who have done jail time. News that called Parker an "anarchist" and said that If
rap album, he'll probably
That same year, KRS One was featured in the title song Osama bin Laden ever buys a [11]
start
with
a
CD
by
KRS-One.
for the lm You Got Served: Beat the World. The song is
entitled Hip Hop Nation, and features other performers Parker responded to the commotion surrounding his comK'naan and Lina. It was produced for the lm by Frank ments with an editorial written for AllHipHop.com, statFitzpatrick. [6]
ing:
In 2012 KRS One toured Australia for the rst time.[7]
He travelled to Australia by cruise boat.[8][9]

I was asked about why hiphop has not

engaged the current situation more (meaning

2 PERSONAL LIFE
surfaced for the 10th anniversary of September 11, when
a video for his song Real Terrorism (featuring an upstart
rapper named Greenie) was banned from YouTube
for unwatchable and graphic content. The video
contained actual news images of American atrocities
throughout history while the song featured Krs-One coarguing that the United States is just as guilty of terrorism as are those who the country accuses of terrorism.
The song & video caused much online controversy late
in 2011. Sites like Vimeo saw it get over 50,000 hits in
just a few days and YouTube refused to comment on the
banning.

KRS-One performing in 2007.

1.6 Gospel of Hip Hop comments

9/11), my response was because it does not
aect us, or at least we dont perceive that it
aects us, 9/11 happened to them. I went on
to say that I am speaking for the culture now;
I am not speaking my personal opinion. I continued to say; 9/11 aected them down the
block; the rich, the powerful those that are oppressing us as a culture. Sony, RCA or BMG,
Universal, the radio stations, Clear Channel,
Viacom with BET and MTV, those are our oppressors, those are the people that we're trying to overcome in hiphop everyday, this is a
daily thing. We cheered when 9/11 happened
in New York and say that proudly here. Because when they were down at the trade center we were getting hit over the head by cops,
told that we cant come in this building, hustled
down to the train station because of the way we
dressed and talked, and so on, we were racially
proled. So, when the planes hit the building
we were like, mmmm, justice. And just as I
began to say now of course a lot of our friends
and family were lost there as well I was interrupted...

In an interview with AllHipHop about his book The

Gospel of Hip Hop, KRS-One said:
Im suggesting that in 100 years, this book
will be a new religion on the earth... I think I
have the authority to approach God directly, I
dont have to go through any religion [or] train
of thought. I can approach God directly myself and so I wrote a book called The Gospel of
Hip Hop to free from all this nonsense garbage
right now. I respect the Christianity, the Islam,
the Judaism but their time is up. ...In a hundred years, everything that Im saying to you
will be common knowledge and people will be
like, 'Why did he have to explain this? Wasnt
it obvious?'"[13]

These comments have been referred to by numerous media outlets[14][15][16] such as the AV Club who comment
that KRS-One writes 600-page hip-hop bible; blueprint
for rap religion[17] and KRS-One has never been afraid
to court controversy and provoke strong reactions. Now
the Boogie Down Productions legend has topped himself
by writing The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument, a
mammoth treatise on the spirituality of hip-hop he hopes
In late 2005, KRS was featured alongside Public En- will some day become a sacred text of a new hip-hop
emy's Chuck D on the remix of the song Bin Laden religion.[17]
by Immortal Technique and DJ Green Lantern, which
blames American neo-conservatives, the Reagan Doctrine and U.S. President George W. Bush for the World 1.7 Benet for First Responders
Trade Center attacks, and indicates a parallel to the devaluation, destruction, and violence of urban housing project KRS-One spoke at a hip hop concert on September 12,
2009 to benet the rst responders of 9/11. The event was
communities.
presented by the 9/11 group We Are Change and SMT
On April 29, 2007, KRS-One again defended his stateStudios.
ments on the September 11 attacks when asked about
them during an appearance on Hannitys America on
the Fox News network stating that he meant that people cheered that the establishment had taken a hit, not 2 Personal life
that people were dying or had died.[12] He also discussed
amongst other things, the Don Imus scandal and the use KRS-One is a vocal supporter of vegetarianism.[18]
of profanity in Hip-Hop.
Randy Hubbard Parker, 23 year old stepson of KRS-One,
In 2011, controversy over KRS-One and terrorism re- was found dead in his Atlanta, Georgia apartment on July

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6, 2007. The Medical Examiners oce stated that Parker
died of a gunshot wound to the head, and listed the cause
of death as suicide.[19][20]

[3] Syma rc helicopter Best prices syma rc helicopter and

buy cheap syma rc helicopter mini chinook. Krsone.org.
Retrieved 2011-02-20.

[4] KRS-One & Buckshot :: Survival Skills :: Duck Down

Music. Rapreviews.com. 2009-09-15. Retrieved 201102-20.

Stage name

KRS-One is an acronym for Knowledge Reigns

Supreme Over Nearly Everybody .[21] KRS is taken
from both his middle name and that of Hindu god
Krishna, the One comes from the grati culture where
artists add the number one.

Awards

[6] https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/
beat-world-original-soundtrack/id433793704
[7] KRS-One Australian Tour 2012 - Music News, Reviews,
Interviews and Culture. Music Feeds. 2012-01-12. Retrieved 2013-07-27.
[8] 18 mins ago (2012-04-05). KRS-One - Sydney.
Eventnder. Retrieved 2013-07-27.

VH1
2004, VH1 Hip Hop Honors
BET Hip Hop Awards
2007, I am Hip Hop
2007, Lifetime Achievement
Urban Music Awards
2009, Living Legend Award

[5] Mick Boogie + Nvme + Duck Down Presents: Survival

Kit Free Download!!!". Duckdown.com. Retrieved
2011-02-20.

Discography

Main article: KRS-One discography

[9] News KRS-One Is Coming to Canberra BMA Magazine

Canberra Streetpress. Bmamag.com. Retrieved 201307-27.
[10] The Stop The Violence Movement Self Destruction,
discogs.com.
[11] Widdicombe, Ben, et al. KRS-One, decency zero. New
York Daily News. Archived from the original on 200612-11. Retrieved 2005-09-06.
[12] KRS-ONE on Hannitys Hot Seat. YouTube. 2009-0518. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
[13] KRS Plans New Hip-Hop Religion With 'Gospel of Hip
Hop'". Allhiphop.com. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
[14] KRS-One Creates New Religion. Sputnikmusic. 200908-20. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
[15] de beste bron van informatie over angryape. Deze website is te koop!". angryape.com. Retrieved 2012-04-04.
[16] Friday, August 28, 2009, 03:14 BST (2009-08-28).
Music News Rapper KRS-One 'starts own religion'".
Digital Spy. Retrieved 2011-02-20.

Filmography

Books

[17] Rabin, Nathan. KRS-One writes 600-page hip-hop

bible; blueprint for rap religion | Music | Newswire. The
A.V. Club. Retrieved 2011-02-20.

See also

[18] KRS-One is a vegetarian Famous Vegetarians Vegan

Celebrities by HappyCow. Happycow.net. Retrieved
2011-02-20.

Suicide, its a suicide

References

[19] Williams, Houston. KRS-Ones Stepson Commits Suicide. AllHipHop.com: July 10, 2007.
[20] KRS-Ones son found dead in apparent suicide | News.
Nme.Com. 2007-07-11. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
[21] About Page, KRS-One Ocial Website

[1] Beef (2003) - IMDb

[2] Marshall, Wayne: Follow Me Now: The Zigzagging Zunguzung Meme, April 2007. http://wayneandwax.com/
?p=137.

[22] The Just-Ice and KRS-ONE EP, Vol. 1 by Just-Ice &

KRS-One Download The Just-Ice and KRS-ONE EP,
Vol. 1 on iTunes. Itunes.apple.com. 2010-08-03. Retrieved 2011-02-20.

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[23] Daily News : Exclusive: DJ Premier Breaks Down Year

Round Records, New Compliation. Allhiphop.com. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
[24] The Science of Rap: Lawrence KRS-ONE Parker:
Books. Amazon.com. 2009-09-09. Retrieved 2011-0220.
[25] The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument
(9781576874974): KRS-One: Books. Amazon.com.
Retrieved 2011-02-20.
[26] The long awaited book from the legendary KRS ONE
THE GOSPEL OF HIP HOP: FIRST INSTRUMENT.
powerHouse Books. Retrieved 2011-02-20.

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External links

KRS-One on Myspace
KRS-One at RollingStone

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