KRS-One's life is the stuff of hip-hop legend. Before his ascent from street kid to rap revolutionary to acclaimed lecturer/intellectual, KRS-One was a homeless teenager. With Boogie Down Productions, KRS-One played a crucial role in bringing a social and political conscience to hip-hop, through such groundbreaking albums as By All Means Necessary, Criminal Minded, Edutainment, and Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip Hop. As a solo artist, he has continued to expand the genre's thematic and musical boundaries, rapping on albums from artists as diverse as R.E.M. and Shabba Ranks and lecturing regularly at college campuses nationwide. After a late-'90s hiatus, KRS-One has returned with The Sneak Attack, his first record in five years and first solo album not to be released by rap/teen-pop powerhouse Jive.
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