★★★★★
Recently, Chuck D described KRS-One as "the Duke Ellington of hip-hop." In the past three or four years, that comparison has become startlingly accurate, both in the quantity of the output of the respective artists, as well as the tactical method in which they attack each project. On his latest project,The BDP Album KRS returns to his own roots as well as the roots of New York hip-hop, all while referring a possible apocalyptic future...
- www.punknews.org
2012-01-30
★★★★★
In the prolific catalogue of material that makes up KRS-One's hip-hop career, this album is something of an oddity, and not because of content. That's already been done - every time we all thought we understood Lawrence Krisna Parker he'd come along and do something like drop a gospel rap album. I sometimes believe Kris has a lot in common with that old adage of 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper's: "Just when you think you know all the answers, I CHANGE THE QUESTIONS...
- rapreviews.com
2011-08-08
★★★★★
Rapper KRS-One's rhyme schemeshave always lacked complexity, but his big, boastful voiceembodies the audacity of the once-renegade art form. The careerspanner A Retrospective includes his most inspired musings on crime ("Love'sGonna Get'cha"), race ("Sound of Da Police"), and mortality("Outta Here"). And spare backing tracks by producers like DJPremiere and Pal Joey are as classically hip-hop as the rapper'sdef delivery. B+
- ew.com
2011-03-03
★★★★★
It's common knowledge that hip-hop doesn't treat its pioneers too kindly. And if DJ's like Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash draw crowds again these days, it is because seeing them perform makes you feel like being part of history, even if the era they represent is indeed already history. Whenever we undertake that pilgrimage to see our forefathers in flesh and blood, it is because we see it as a way to show our appreciation for what they've done for the music we love...
- rapreviews.com
2010-05-08
★★★★★
It wouldn't be a KRS-One album if there wasn't a firestorm of controversy. Self-taught, well-respected, but also a raging egomaniac, his solo albums since leaving Boogie Down Productions in the 1990's have swung the pendulum between genius ("Return of the Boom Bap") to strange ("The Sneak Attack") but at least arguably have never been boring...
- rapreviews.com
2010-05-01
★★★★★
People talk a lot in hip-hop music and culture. By talk, I mean "gossip." Rumor mills churn overtime coming up with things that are sometimes true, sometimes fictitious, and more often than not a confusing mix of the two. Therefore, it was not hard to believe KRS-One was working on a new album when word came down the grapevine online... but a GOSPEL RAP ALBUM...
- rapreviews.com
2010-04-10
★★★★★
The East coast hip-hop veterans have been busting back on to the scene in record numbers within the last six months. Yes, people who you might have once scratched your head and asked, "Whatever happened to..?" all have new music again. Ed O.G., MC Shan, Run-D.M.C., Kool G. Rap, and KRS-One. Yes, hip-hop's self-proclaimed "teacher" and "blastmaster" is back at long last in 2001 with his long-awaited and much anticipated brand new album "The Sneak Attack...
- rapreviews.com
2010-04-03
★★★★★
When he proved hip-hop was a way for people to unite and exchange guns for lyrics, the industry turned violent. When he established the idea that true success came from using intellectual wealth to improve the life of others, hip-hop became an Italian sports car advertisement. Like a rebellious son, hip-hop has contradicted everything that the paternal rap philosopher king KRS ONE has preached...
- www.lostatsea.net
2009-10-30
★★★★★
Rap heads will remember a lot of interesting feuds that took place during 2002, but one of the most brutal was the battle between hip-hop legend KRS-One and upstart new jack Nelly. It all started when KRS declared he had a beef with Nelly recording the song "#1," which originally appeared on the "Training Day" soundtrack...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
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