As we speak in Hip Hop historical past prolific South Bronx thinker KRS-One launched his second solo LP KRS-One (an acronym for Data Reigns Supreme Over Almost Everybody). With this album, the previous Boogie Down Productions MC makes an try and reconnect with the youthful scene in New York. The tone and elegance of this album match extra into the fold of standard rap music popping out of the Massive Apple in ’95 permitting KRS-ONE to regain recognition amongst youthful Hip Hop followers.
With revamped manufacturing and options from the likes of Fats Joe, Busta Rhymes, Das EFX, and Mad Lion, this undertaking solely added to KRS-One’s repertoire. With this album KRS-One confirmed the couldn’t solely hold alive his model of instructional hardcore increase bap; however, that he may transition and taper his bars to a extra excessive vitality, social gathering pushed crowd.
Commercially, this album was a hit. Peaking at #19 on the Billboard 200 and #2 on the High R&B/Hip Hop Charts, it was apparent that KRS-One had but to fade into the pages of Hip Hop historical past. Each critics and followers alike responded properly to this slight type change, marking it as a second of experimentation as an alternative of accusing KRS-Certainly one of promoting out. Fellow rap heavyweight additionally chimed in with their opinions of KRS-One work on the precise album. The LP is aced with interludes of radio shout-outs from rappers Methodology Man, Lord Finesse, Rakim, Jeru the Damaja, Mr. Magic, and even MC Shan who at one level had beef with Boogie Down Productions.
