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Simone Parker Bio Simone parker bio Continue 100Join Yahoo Answers and receives 100 points today. Terms‧Privacy‧AdChoices‧RSS‧HelpAbout Answers‧Community Guidelines‧Leaderboard‧Knowledge Partners‧Points & LevelsResparent‧ American musician KRS-One in Delaware on July 16, 2008Background informationBirth name Lawrence ParkerAlso is also known as KRSTeachaThe BlastmasterBig Joe KrashThe Temple of Hip HopBorn (1965-08-20) August 20, 1965 (age 55)New York City, USA Genres Hip hop conscious rap political hip-hop hardcore hip-hop Occupation (s)Rapperrecord produceractivistMCIntellectualMotivational speakerInstrumentsVocalsturntablesYears active1986 (1986)-presentLabelsJiveDuck DownE1Aftermath actsBoogie Down Productions • Group Therapy • DJ Premier • Tim Dog • R.E.M. • Rakim · Juice CrewWebsitekrs-one.com Lawrence Kris Parker (born August 20, 1965) is a New York rapper. In the mid-1980s, he formed the hip-hop band Boogie Down Productions with DJ Scott La Rock. KRS-One is best known for its hits Sound of da Police, Love's going to Get'cha (Material Love) and My Philosophy. [1] Boogie Down Productions received numerous awards and critical acclaim in the early years. Unfortunately, after the release of the group's debut album, Criminal Minded, fellow artist Scott La Rock was shot and killed, but KRS-One continued the group effectively as a solo project. In 1993, he began to release the albums under his own name. He's politically active after starting Stop the Violence Movement after Scott's death. He is also a vegan activist, expressing songs like Beef. [2] It is widely considered to be the influence of many well-known hip-hop artists, such as 2Pac and Eminem, to name a few. Lawrence Parker was born in 1965 in the Bronx, New York, to an American mother. His father and stepfather are Jamaican. [3] At the age of 16, he left home to become a MC and began living in a homeless shelter in the South Bronx, where residents named him Krishna, as he was curious about the spirituality of Hare Krishna for some anti- poverty workers. [4] During his stay at the community shelter, he met with youth counsellor Scott Sterling and began a DJ/MC relationship. He is also involved in street art activity graffiti under the pseudonym KRS-One (Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Almost Everyone). In 1987, they co-created Boogie Down Productions and released their debut album, Criminal Minded. [5] Boogie Down Productions Main Article: Boogie Down Productions KRS-One began his career as one-third of hip-hop group Boogie Down Productions, or BDP alongside DJ Scott La Rock and Derrick Jones. After the radio DJs mr. Magic and Marley Marl rejected it, krs-one said the two and the related two diss, and the later The Bridge Wars. In addition, KRS-One took offense to The Bridge, the song by Marley Marl's protéged, MC Shan (KRS-One later reconciled with Marley Marl, producing an album with her in 2007 titled Hip Hop Lives). The song can be interpreted as a claim that Queensbridge was a monument to hip-hop, although MC Shan has repeatedly denied that claim. Still, KRS-One dissed the song on the BDP record in the South Bronx. The second round of volleys ensued with Shan's Kill That Noise and BDP's The Bridge Is Over. KRS-One, proving the nickname The Blastmaster, gave a live performance against MC Shan, and many admitted he had won the battle. Many [who?] believe this live performance to be the first MC battle where rappers attack each other, rather than the battle between who can get the crowd more hyped. [6] Parker and Sterling decided to start a rap group, initially calling themselves Scott La Rock and the Celebrity Three. However, this was short-lived as the two peripheral members quit, leaving Parker (now calling himself KRS-One) and Sterling. They then decided to call themselves Boogie Down Productions. Success is the Word, a 12-inch single produced by David Kenneth Eng and Kenny Beck, was released on indie Fresh/Sleeping Bag Records (12:41 p.m.), but did not enjoy commercial success. Boogie Down Productions released their debut album, Criminal Minded, in 1987. Scott La Rock was killed in a shooting later that year after trying to mediate a dispute between teenager and BDP member D-Nice and local gangsters. During this time, KRS-One also gained acclaim as one of the first MCs to include Jamaican style in hip-hop, the Zung gu zung tune, originally made famous by Yellowman at Jamaican dance halls earlier in the decade. [7] Although KRS-One used Zunguzung styles in a stronger and more controversial way, especially in its song Remix for P is Free, it is still considered one of the most influential figures to bridge the gap between Jamaican music and American hip-hop. After the fatal shooting of Scott La Rock in 1987, KRS decided to continue Boogie Down Productions through the tragedy and released the album By All Means Necessary in 1988. He was joined by beatboxer D-Nice, rapper Ramona Ms. Melodie Parker (whose marriage to Kris lasted from 1988 to 1992), and Kris' younger brother, DJ Kenny Parker, among others. However, Boogie Down Productions continued to be a show for KRS, and the group's content became increasingly political in its releases of ghetto music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop, Edutainment, Live Hardcore Worldwide and Sex and Violence. KRS-One was the primary initiator behind H.E.A.L. and the Stop the Violence Movement; the latter attracted many prominent emcees displayed in the 12-inch single Self Destruction. As KRS adopted this humanistic, less defensive approach, it turned away from blastmaster's personality to Teacha, although it continued to use Blastmaster throughout its career. After a career in Belgium in May 2006, KRS-One released five largely solo albums called Boogie Down Productions, with KRS-One deciding to run independently. On his first solo album, 1993's Return of the Boom Bap, he worked with dj Premier, Kid Capri and Showbiz producers, the latter of which was a catchy yet hardcore track by Sound of da Police. His second album, 1995's KRS-One, played Channel Live in Free Mumia, in which civil rights activist C. Delores Tucker was criticized, among others. Other prominent guest stars on KRS-One included Mad Lion, Busta Rhymes, Das EFX and Fat Joe. In 1991, KRS-One was released on R.E.M.'s alternative rock band Radio Song, which was released on the album Out of Time the same year. In 1992, Bradley Nowell of Sublime added an acoustic song called KRS-One with his voice and DJ samples. In 1995, KRS organized Channel Live, whose album Station Identification was produced by Rheji Burrell and Salaam Remi. In 1997, KRS surprised many with the release of the album I Got Next. The album's first single, Step into a World (Rapture's Delight), which features interpolation by punk and new wave band Blondie, was accompanied by a remix featuring a commercial rap icon, Puff Daddy; another song was essentially a rock song. While the album would be the best-selling solo album (reaching #3 on the Billboard 200), such collaborations are particularly mainstream artists and prominent, easily recognizable patterns taken from many fans and observers of vehemently anti-mainstream KRS-One surprises. In August 1997, on Tim Westwood's BBC Radio 1 programme, KRS-One criticised the station for not playing underground hip-hop, while also at the same time atsing Westwood for promoting hip-hop. KRS-One said that Jive Records and Radio 1 didn't support him, but he finished westwood by imitating the you know he's my man. [Subpoena required] in 1999, there were pilot plans for issuing Maximum Strength; The single 5 Boroughs was released on the soundtrack to The Corruptor. However, KRS decided to cancel the planned release of the album, as it did at Reprise Records in A&Amp; He also secured his position as R's vice president. The set-aside album was to be re-released in 2008, but eventually an independent album, Maximum Strength, was released in its place. He moved to Southern California and stayed there for two years and ended his relationship with Jive Records with A Retrospective in 2000. The KRS-One and DJ Tomekk made a video for Return of Hip-Hop with German rappers Torch and MC Rene, calling for hip-hop to revive its hospital staff. The song remained on the German charts for nine weeks. [8] Backstage 2002's KRS resigned from reprise in 2001 and returned to record with a series of albums, starting with 2001's The Sneak Attack on Koch Records. In 2002, he released a gospel rap album, Spiritual Minded, which made many longtime fans laugh; he once denounced Christianity as a slavemaster religion that African-Americans should not follow. During this period, KRS founded the Hiphop Temple, an organization that promotes the preservation and promotion of Hiphop Kulture. The following releases included 2003's Kristyles and D.I.G.I.T.A.L., 2004's Keep Right and 2006's Life. The only latter-day KRS-One album to receive significant attention was Hip-Hop Lives, his 2007 collaboration with Marley Marl, partly crediting the pair to The Bridge Wars, but also the title's apparent response to nas's 2006 hip-hop is dead release. While many critics noted that they would have been excited if this collaboration had happened twenty years earlier, the album met positive reviews. KRS-One collaborated with other artists, including Canadian rap band Hellafactz, Jay-Roc N' Jakebeatz and New York producer Domingo.
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