Appearing on the rap scene in 1986 as Boogie Down Productions, KRS-One released his first hit single "South Bronx" with the late DJ Scott La Rock and made it clear that hip-hop was going to have to take itself a lot more seriously than simply being a music genre.
KRS, an acronym for "Knowledge Reigning Supreme," has been called the "conscience of hip-hop" (Rolling Stone), "the greatest live emcee ever" (The Source), the "spokesperson for hip-hop" (Wall Street Journal), "master teacher" (Zulu Nation), and the "son of hip-hop" (Kool DJ Herc). With 20 published albums to his credit and numerous appearances with other artists, KRS-One is believed to have written the most rhymes in hip-hop's history. In the 1990s as hip-hop grew more commercialized and corporate, it was KRS-One who openly rejected such cultural exploitation and materialism grounding hip-hop in its original principles of peace, love, unity, and safely having fun. Teaching everything from self-creation to stopping violence; from vegetarianism to transcendental meditation, from the creation of Hip Hop Appreciation Week (every third week in May), to establishing hip-hop as an international culture at the United Nations (2001), KRS-One has single-handedly held the history and original arts of hip-hop together now for over two decades.
In addition to lecturing at over 500 universities in the US and publishing three ground-breaking books; "The Science of Rap" (1995), "Ruminations" (2003), and the "Gospel of Hip Hop" (2009), KRS-One has also established the Stop The Violence Movement (1989), influenced the creation of the West-Coast All-Stars anti-gang anthem "We're All In The Same Gang" (1990), warned the hip-hop community against giving up their humanity for technological advancement. Without question, KRS-One has been the loudest voice for the actual preservation and expansion of original Hip Hop worldwide.
When he is not touring or lecturing, KRS-One continues to share his unique knowledge of hip-hop to younger audiences eager to hear the "teacha" speak. Operating as a kind of pop-up school, KRS-One's Temple of Hip Hop has appeared in New York, Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and San Francisco offering the more serious student of hip-hop an effective way to live and understand the culture of hip-hop more deeply.
Biography
Lawrence Parker was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York during the summer of 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 graffiti 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. KRS-One has been a vegetarian since his youth.
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KRS, an acronym for "Knowledge Reigning Supreme," has been called the "conscience of hip-hop" (Rolling Stone), "the greatest live emcee ever" (The Source), the "spokesperson for hip-hop" (Wall Street Journal), "master teacher" (Zulu Nation), and the "son of hip-hop" (Kool DJ Herc). With 20 published albums to his credit and numerous appearances with other artists, KRS-One is believed to have written the most rhymes in hip-hop's history. In the 1990s as hip-hop grew more commercialized and corporate, it was KRS-One who openly rejected such cultural exploitation and materialism grounding hip-hop in its original principles of peace, love, unity, and safely having fun. Teaching everything from self-creation to stopping violence; from vegetarianism to transcendental meditation, from the creation of Hip Hop Appreciation Week (every third week in May), to establishing hip-hop as an international culture at the United Nations (2001), KRS-One has single-handedly held the history and original arts of hip-hop together now for over two decades.
In addition to lecturing at over 500 universities in the US and publishing three ground-breaking books; "The Science of Rap" (1995), "Ruminations" (2003), and the "Gospel of Hip Hop" (2009), KRS-One has also established the Stop The Violence Movement (1989), influenced the creation of the West-Coast All-Stars anti-gang anthem "We're All In The Same Gang" (1990), warned the hip-hop community against giving up their humanity for technological advancement. Without question, KRS-One has been the loudest voice for the actual preservation and expansion of original Hip Hop worldwide.
When he is not touring or lecturing, KRS-One continues to share his unique knowledge of hip-hop to younger audiences eager to hear the "teacha" speak. Operating as a kind of pop-up school, KRS-One's Temple of Hip Hop has appeared in New York, Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and San Francisco offering the more serious student of hip-hop an effective way to live and understand the culture of hip-hop more deeply.
Biography
Lawrence Parker was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York during the summer of 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 graffiti 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. KRS-One has been a vegetarian since his youth.
Appearing on the rap scene in 1986 as Boogie Down Productions, KRS-One released his first hit single "South Bronx" with the late DJ Scott La Rock and made it clear that hip-hop was going to have to take itself a lot more seriously than simply being a music genre.
KRS, an acronym for "Knowledge Reigning Supreme," has been called the "conscience of hip-hop" (Rolling Stone), "the greatest live emcee ever" (The Source), the "spokesperson for hip-hop" (Wall Street Journal), "master teacher" (Zulu Nation), and the "son of hip-hop" (Kool DJ Herc). With 20 published albums to his credit and numerous appearances with other artists, KRS-One is believed to have written the most rhymes in hip-hop's history. In the 1990s as hip-hop grew more commercialized and corporate, it was KRS-One who openly rejected such cultural exploitation and materialism grounding hip-hop in its original principles of peace, love, unity, and safely having fun. Teaching everything from self-creation to stopping violence; from vegetarianism to transcendental meditation, from the creation of Hip Hop Appreciation Week (every third week in May), to establishing hip-hop as an international culture at the United Nations (2001), KRS-One has single-handedly held the history and original arts of hip-hop together now for over two decades.
In addition to lecturing at over 500 universities in the US and publishing three ground-breaking books; "The Science of Rap" (1995), "Ruminations" (2003), and the "Gospel of Hip Hop" (2009), KRS-One has also established the Stop The Violence Movement (1989), influenced the creation of the West-Coast All-Stars anti-gang anthem "We're All In The Same Gang" (1990), warned the hip-hop community against giving up their humanity for technological advancement. Without question, KRS-One has been the loudest voice for the actual preservation and expansion of original Hip Hop worldwide.
When he is not touring or lecturing, KRS-One continues to share his unique knowledge of hip-hop to younger audiences eager to hear the "teacha" speak. Operating as a kind of pop-up school, KRS-One's Temple of Hip Hop has appeared in New York, Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and San Francisco offering the more serious student of hip-hop an effective way to live and understand the culture of hip-hop more deeply.
Biography
Lawrence Parker was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York during the summer of 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 graffiti 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. KRS-One has been a vegetarian since his youth.
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KRS, an acronym for "Knowledge Reigning Supreme," has been called the "conscience of hip-hop" (Rolling Stone), "the greatest live emcee ever" (The Source), the "spokesperson for hip-hop" (Wall Street Journal), "master teacher" (Zulu Nation), and the "son of hip-hop" (Kool DJ Herc). With 20 published albums to his credit and numerous appearances with other artists, KRS-One is believed to have written the most rhymes in hip-hop's history. In the 1990s as hip-hop grew more commercialized and corporate, it was KRS-One who openly rejected such cultural exploitation and materialism grounding hip-hop in its original principles of peace, love, unity, and safely having fun. Teaching everything from self-creation to stopping violence; from vegetarianism to transcendental meditation, from the creation of Hip Hop Appreciation Week (every third week in May), to establishing hip-hop as an international culture at the United Nations (2001), KRS-One has single-handedly held the history and original arts of hip-hop together now for over two decades.
In addition to lecturing at over 500 universities in the US and publishing three ground-breaking books; "The Science of Rap" (1995), "Ruminations" (2003), and the "Gospel of Hip Hop" (2009), KRS-One has also established the Stop The Violence Movement (1989), influenced the creation of the West-Coast All-Stars anti-gang anthem "We're All In The Same Gang" (1990), warned the hip-hop community against giving up their humanity for technological advancement. Without question, KRS-One has been the loudest voice for the actual preservation and expansion of original Hip Hop worldwide.
When he is not touring or lecturing, KRS-One continues to share his unique knowledge of hip-hop to younger audiences eager to hear the "teacha" speak. Operating as a kind of pop-up school, KRS-One's Temple of Hip Hop has appeared in New York, Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and San Francisco offering the more serious student of hip-hop an effective way to live and understand the culture of hip-hop more deeply.
Biography
Lawrence Parker was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York during the summer of 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 graffiti 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. KRS-One has been a vegetarian since his youth.
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