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[edit] Not Selling Out

I'm really not all that familiar with KRS-One, but I've heard numerous references to him having a reputation for not selling out. Numerous artists allude to some sort of events where he had turned down offers / royalties to use his song in ads, amongst other things. Again I was just reading the article now hoping to see what exactly they were talking about - but there's no mention. Off the top of my head, I believe Kyprios was one artist mentioning him in this nature, I know there are others but I can't remember them right now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JayAlto (talk • contribs) 01:59, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sources

I found a source for a lot of the stuff on here, an interview on youtube. Not sure if that's considered a source, and I don't know how to add references, but it explains where his name came from, as well as his homeless youth, coming straight from KRS himself. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ2SuJoOOxA Jon 04:16, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Headline text

ummm... the paragraph saying that KRS-1 expressed solidarity with Osama Bin Laden is taken almost directly from a New York Daily News article, which KRS-1 has declared slanderous.

"For years my career has been one of promoting peace, love, unity and having fun; such has always been Hiphop’s cultural principles. So how all of a sudden now can I be aligned with Al Qaeda? What happened to honest debate and freedom of speech! I don’t speak for the African American community exclusively, I speak for HIPHOP! And let me be clear here; most of the Hiphop community is against the war in Iraq! But to align me with Al Qaeda is clearly an attempt by the Daily News to interrupt the street voice of our Hiphop community, KRS-ONE’s leadership and the increased momentum of our Hiphop political movement. I don’t think Al Qaeda needs my solidarity nor did I ever offer it, so what’s the point. For a major news organization to now align KRS-ONE with Al Qaeda shows the unwarranted contempt that such an organization has for me. Such is grounds for a law suit!"~KRS-1

Article at http://www.notinourname.net/resources_links/krsone-responds-14oct04.htm Tomorrowsashes 00:27, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

You refer to KRS-One refering to himself as the teacha only after Scott LaRock was murdered, however he does refer to himself as a teacher in the track 'Poetry' on Criminal Minded:

"Well now you're forced to listen to the teacher and the lesson ..."

"...Take off your coat, take notes, I am teachin a class, or rather school, cause you need schooling I am not a king or queen, I'm not ruling..."

wait up...im not saying this hare krishnah thing isnt true, but can ya source it? dont want to falsely defame KRS. Urthogie 01:48, 1 September 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Add Nelly Beef?

Anyone feel like adding a section about his anti Pop Rap songs and his nelly Beef?

[edit] Cleanup

"Youth and early career" section reads like a magazine article; long on anecdotes, short on facts. Tenebrae 20:06, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

This page does not does KRS-One justice. KRS-One *IS* HipHop. An indepth analysis needs to be done, key events such as Stop the Violence/Self Destruction, the MC Shan conflict, the Nelly conflict, and his influence to true hiphop needs to be elaborated much further. Again, this guy isnt any rap artist, he is *the* rap artist, a true originator and living legend. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.195.82.142 (talk • contribs) .

Well thats your opinion, but feel free to add unbiased info on him--Urthogie 09:47, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

What about his scholastic background/achievements/qualifications? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 196.15.148.179 (talk • contribs) .

Feel free to add that too, as long as its presented in an encyclopedic way.--Urthogie 12:54, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, I've done what I could as far as cleanup goes, replaced the commented link to a deleted image with a more recent and fair use album cover, peppered in some wiki-links, and removed the cleanup tag. If anyone has any questions or concerns please let me know. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 21:35, 4 April 2006 (UTC)


Article asserts that KRS coined the backronym `Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone' in his `later career', however that line appears on the title track of Criminal Minded, so that's just wrong.

I'm confused inre: the "Kris" name. It says he was born "Lawrence Krisna Parker" but that his nickname Kris was given later in life because he consorted with Krishna evangelists. I can't see how this makes sense, but I don't know which would be right. EDIT: I confirmed he wasn't born Lawrence Krisna, and changed it accordingly. Wonder how long it'll be until someone changes it back...(63.249.103.13 07:45, 13 May 2006 (UTC))

Why is this located at KRS One rather than KRS-One? Isn't the latter the standard form? -leigh (φθόγγος) 05:57, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

i agree with this especially since we have a reference in the first line that says that's the form given at his official site. so i "was bold" and moved it. W guice 00:14, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Contradiction with Scott La Rock article

The SLR article says that they met at Covenant House, where SLR was working, not the Armory, unless those are different names for the same place. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.63.82.37 (talk) 18:02, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Important History Missing

There is no mention in the KRS-One article of his collaborations with Just Ice.

See the Just Ice article wikipeadi has...

"Just-Ice set a pattern for many a future hip-hop feud. Little could halt Just-Ice's ascension to hip hop stardom, though the departure of Mantronik from Sleeping Bag was a bad omen. KRS-One stepped in to produce 1987's Kool & Deadly, an album that swapped Mantronik's hi-tech skills for raw, elemental beats and rhymes. The British and New York public that had so enthusiastically embraced Back to the Old School were indifferent about this one, and 1989's The Desolate One (with KRS-One back in the producer's seat) was no great improvement."

I'm just a curious researcher and not a KRS-One expert by any means, but I was looking for the name of KRS-One's major battle rival and couldn't find it on this page. I couldn't remember the details of the battle, but I knew it was at one point a big deal. But I couldn't find information about it on this page or the Boogie Down Productions page. I typed "Who was KRS-One's major battle rival?" into google and The Bridge Wars link to that Wikipedia page came up and I found out Marley Marl was the name I was trying to think of but it was driving me crazy because I couldn't. This seems like a major thing that should be either in this page or the Boogie Down Productions page. I'm certainly not qualified to put it in proper context, so somebody at least mention it on this page so that curious people in the future won't drive themselves crazy.

F. Simon Grant 14:32, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blastmaster

I removed the statement that he stopped using Blastmaster after 1987. Among other references, the title track of Edutainment includes the line, "I'll whip out the pen and just write Blast/Master, K-R-S-O-N-E" and that was in 1991. Perhaps the references became fewer, but certainly they did not cease.Czrisher 21:56, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stop the violence - alternative version

There was a completely different version of "Stop the Violence" recorded with someone called Jamrock Massive (it's on discogs.com), released mysteriously contemporaneously with the Jive/By All Means Necessary version. It was a Single of the Week in the NME in the UK and was played two or three times on BBC Radio 1 by John Peel. The lyrics were almost identical, but the music was completely different (this was NOT a remix - it was even a different tempo).

I was gutted when I bought the album to find it wasn't this version! This fantastic record, however obscure it is, should be acknowledged somewhere in the BDP/KRS One pages. Word! as we used to say.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Bdpviolence.jpg

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Bdp1.jpg

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Blueprintkrs.jpg

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[edit] Death of his son

Just read this headline a little while ago: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1564396/20070710/krs_one.jhtml

  • not to minimise the tragedy, but someone on the net said it was his stepson? no verifiable sources though. Es-won 18:30, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PICTURE - FREE AND FAIR USE

we need a new photo - wikipedia wants to take down what is THE PERFECT KRS-ONE PICTURE - but i understand. can anyone help out with a free (or at least fair use compliant) pic of the Blastmaster? Es-won 04:26, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

We got already one, it's under free use in the WP commons. Woop-Woop That's the sound of da Police 18:56, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] He says born in Brooklyn, not Bronx.

In the New York Times article to do with wikimania ( http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/04/cheers-and-boos-as-wikipedians-see-themselves-on-film/#more-319 ), he says that the article is inaccurate about his being born in the bronx... -- Cimon Avaro; on a pogostick. 08:14, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Saw the same NYT piece -- I've changed his birthplace accordingly. Clevelander96 15:44, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Brown not Parker??

I'm not sure what's going on here, but several different people have been editing this entry to say that KRS-One's actual birth name was Lawrence Brown. Where is this coming from? I've got about 50 different hip-hop books on my shelf that all say he was born Lawrence Parker. They disagree on "Kris" (when and how he got that nickname) but not one of them says Brown.

The only place I see "Brown" is on a downloadable essay that's on some term-paper websites, which cites the VIBE history of hip-hop. That's one book I don't have (loaned my copy out to a friend and never got it back), but is that what it really says? Seems like we'd want to get the man's name right, to have any credibility to this entry at all -- which is it? Clevelander96 02:48, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

it's unsourced likely vandalism. i have reverted and will continue to do so until a source is provided per Clevelander96. tomasz. 15:21, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sublime's KRS-One

Sublime has a song called KRS-One about the rapper. I think it is worthy of mentioning here.

it's a good song but it would be a very trivial mention at most ("He was the subject of a tribute song bearing his name by Long Beach ska band Sublime" would be about the size of it.) tomasz. 17:31, 31 March 2008 (UTC)