KRS-One News

This Red Carpet affair will take place on Feb 9, 2010 at the M2 Ultra Lounge, 530 West 28th Street, NYC.

Brooklyn's Powerhouse Books launched its I Am Hip-Hop imprint with the man synonymous with the phrase: KRS-One . Having recently published The Gospel of Hip-Hop: First Instrument , the Boogie Down Productions co-founder-turned-author is touring New York and New Jersey to greet fans and readers of the effort.

Masta Ace & Edo G f. KRS-One Pass The Mic Comments 4 Post your comments Name Rep yourself be heard.

Pomona MEMBERS & POSITIONS : King Jesk ; Hesk Picasoe KINDRED SPIRITS: Influenced by: Kool Herc, Cypress Hill, Nas, Jay-Z, Dilated Peoples, KRS-One, Tupac, A Tribe Called Quest, Big Pun, Big L, Visionaries, Shapeshifters and Scarface.

Hip-Hop Needs More Women: We're Looking at You Def Jam 25 Years and Counting. Ann linked this piece from Davey D's blog of an interview with KRS-1 where he discusses the lack of women in hip-hop: CP: What do you think is missing in hip-hop today? KRS ONE: "I am not just saying this because you [a woman] are asking the question, this is my real ...

Mama Cash reports that a coalition of African Lesbians is fighting back against new anti-homosexuality laws in Uganda and Rwanda.

There was a time when hip hop was rebel music, a blast from the inner-city alternating between party soundtrack and protest against injustice.

Following the airing of the 2009 BET Hip Hop Awards [click to read] last night the most talked about topic of the night seemed to be the award shows cyphers.

Literary Agent Regina Brooks gives writers all the advice they need to tap this incredible market andA shows themA how to listen to young adults so that they can create characters their audience can identify with.A Regina Brooks has developed award-winning authors across the YA genre, including a Coretta Scott King winner.

Interview and words by Cheverly Council and Rebecca McDonald Photos by B FRESH Photography The vibe was live at Epic on Saturday night for the Stop the Violence Movement/Temple of hip hop show, with B-girls and boys out in full effect, a local hip hop lineup with over a dozen acts such as Illuminous 3, Lila T, and Ill Chemistry , the Twin Cities ...

One is set to release a new book, titled The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument , the first from his I Am Hop Hop series via PowerHouse Books.

One KRS-One 's The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument - the first book from the I Am Hop Hop/powerHouse Books imprint - is set for a November release.

November 20 a ' 21, 2009 MIAMI, FL a ' 2009 marks the 6th Anniversary of Organic Hip Hop.

The members of Shonen Knife are deeply in love with the Ramones . The Japanese trio's sound is a mirror image of the short three-chord assaults that their miscreant forebears perfected decades ago, but unlike the hordes of American imitators, they've done away with the leather jackets and druggy angst, crushing the underlying menace of punk with ...

One spoke at the university Wendsday. Whoop Whoop! It's the sound of KRS-One! On Wednesday, it was not the sound of the police that brought fans of Hip-hop music and culture to Mitchell Hall, but the opportunity to hear an industry legend speak.

16, 2009----Whether it was talking about Newtonian physics, how Napoleon was the first great graffiti artist or President Ronald Regan's skills as a DJ, emcee and producer KRS-One left no stone unturned as he addressed a packed house at Mitchell Hall about the "Fundamentals of Hip-Hop" on Wednesday night.

"The truth is Hip-Hop, and with Hip-Hop the bigger you get or if you really want get big, really, you got to get small." - KRS-One Legends are made not born.

Ashanti, Chrisette Michele, DJ Chuck Chill Out, DJ Clinton Sparks, DMX, Eminem, EPMD, Fabolous, Foxy Brown, Gym Class Heroes, DJ Jaycee, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Ghostface, Ja Rule, Judacamp Choir, Kid Rock, KRS One, Ludacris, Mary J. Blige, Method Man, DJ Nonstop, Onyx, Public Enemy, Redman, The Roots, Rick Ross, DJ Sam Sneak, Scarface, DJ Scratch, The ...

Wow. This stellar clip of BDP and KRS-One getting it in Harlem, circa 1990, contains both cameos from a not-yet-Governor David Paterson--that's him, circa 47 seconds in, right around when KRS gets his white devils dig in--and a pre-Bad Boy Puff Daddy, working a kind of proto-Diddy Bop in the background.

"I spit the truth in lethal/ ... It's not the mic; it's the mind I speak through/" - KRS-One & Buckshot, "Connection," Survival Skills , 2009.