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Posts Tagged “KRS-One”

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KRS-One Wants You To Start Saying "Increase The Peace" All Over Again


In addition to giving us the best bit of moralizing in hip-hop history, the Stop The Violence movement unified hip-hop in the late '80s, precisely at the moment when the press started playing the genre up as the worst menace to America's young people since disco/rock/swing/filthy ragtime sheet music. Now that hip-hop is once again attracting beaucoup negative attention from the media, a light went off above KRS-One's head. More »

12:30 PM on Wed Oct 31 2007
By jharv
250 views, 3 comments

edutainment?

KRS-One: "My Philosophy? Eat Fewer Cookies."

The rotund Blastmaster will slim down on the next season of Celebrity Fit Club, where he'll be teaching the other cast members the history of Egyptology and the finer points of why the Juice Crew sucks between bouts of being shouted at for not being able to do enough situps. What is it with VH1's ability to get the stars of late '80s/early '90s political hip-hop to shill for reality shows? I'm sure if Professor X wasn't dead he'd be kicking game on I Love New York. Or maybe one of the Poor Righteous Teachers can guest on I Hate My 30s.

KRS-One Set To Appear On VH1's Celebrity Fit Club [XXL]

11:00 AM on Tue Oct 23 2007
By jharv
153 views, 3 comments

Latest by Jupiter8: I think it's great that VH1 is giving jobs to all the rappers MTV used to ignore. more »

on the shelf

Tomorrow's New Releases Revealed Today

Welcome to On The Shelf, Idolator's weekly look at the new releases hitting store shelves and digital-music services. This week, we look at fresh albums from Maroon 5, The Used, KRS-One and Marley Marl, and the National, as well as the latest offering in the Kidz Bop series. More »

5:27 PM on Mon May 21 2007
By mjohnston
1,154 views, 11 comments