Tuesday 20 March 2012

TRUE TOP EMCEES IN THE GAME #1 KRS-ONE





KRS-ONE, #1 IN THE 80'S, 90'S, 2000'S AND STILL #1 IN 2012!!! THE VETERANS CONTINUE THEY'RE FIGHT AGAINST THE MAINSTREAM GARBAGE WITH QUALITY RELEASE AFTER QUALITY RELEASE AND KRS-ONE IS THE PERFECT EXAMPLE!!! KRS HAS KEPT BUSY THIS YEAR RELEASING AND RECORDING NEW MATERIAL IT WOULD SEEM THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE YEAR STARTING OFF WITH THE RELEASE OF "GODSVILLE"


"GODSVILLE" WAS A COLLABORATION BETWEEN KRS-ONE AND D.I.T.C. SUPER PRODUCER SHOWBIZ, CONTINUING THE THEME OF COLLABORATIVE ALBUMS WITH LEGENDARY NEW YORK PRODUCERS WHICH STARTED WITH THE RELEASE OF 2008'S "HIP-HOP LIVES" WITH MARLY MARL FOLLOWED BY 2010'S "META-HISTORICAL" WITH TRUE MASTER!! WHILST WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE DJ PREMIER COLLABORATION "RETURN OF THE BOOM BIP" WE HAVEN'T HAD TO WAIT LONG FOR QUALITY MUSIC!!! "GODSVILLE" WAS RELEASED AT THE BEGINNING OF 2011 WITH SOUNDING KRS SOUNDING MORE FOCUSED THAN HE HAS IN YEARS REPPING HIP-HOP TO THE FULLEST!! SHORTLY AFTER CAME THE COLLABORATIVE EFFORT WITH BUMPY KNUCKLES "ROYALTY CHECK"


WHILST ON FIRST LISTEN THE ALBUM DIDN'T REALLY SEEM TO DELIVER THE IMPACT THAT WAS EXPECTED, PERHAPS BECAUSE BOTH EMCEES HAVE SET THE BAR SO HIGH ON PREVIOUS COLLABORATIONS BUT ONCE YOU PUT ASIDE YOUR PRE-HYPE IT REALLY START'S TO COME ALIVE AFTER A FEW LISTENS!! BUMPY HANDLES THE MAJORITY OF THE PRODUCTION WITH A SOUND HE'S COME TO LABEL "BLOCK ROCK" PLENTY OF STAND OUT MOMENTS INCLUDING THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER OPENER "STREET POISON (STRESSED OUT MIX)" WHERE KRS TAKES THE LEAD SPEAKING ON THE ILL'S OF AMERICA TODAY WITH LYRICS LIKE

"AMERICA, AMERICA, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE,
YOU USED TO BE THE LIGHT OF THE WHOLE WORLD LIKE THE SUN,
NOW LOOK WHAT YOU'VE BECOME,
DIS-UNIFIED WHAT HAPPENED TO OUT OF MANY...... ONE?"

THE END OF 2011 SAW KRS RELEASING A STREAM OF VIDEOS PROMOTING YET ANOTHER HOOK UP WITH A LONG TIME COLLABORATOR THIS TIME IN THE FORM OF MAD LION FOR THE 2012 SCHEDULED ALBUM "JUST LIKE THAT" FURTHER EVIDENCE THAT FAR FROM SLOWING DOWN OR SIMPLY TAKING A BACK SEAT, THE OLDER HEADS ARE FIGHTING TO KEEP REAL HIP-HOP ALIVE AND STEAR IT INTO THE RIGHT DIRECTION TO MAINTAIN AND PRESERVE THE ELEMENTS OF OUR CULTURE!!!







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