KRS-ONE, Return of the Boom Bap - 56m 4s

Tracks & Durations

1. KRS-ONE Attacks	2:51
2. Outta Here	4:28
3. Black Cop	2:59
4. Mortal Thought	3:20
5. I Can't Wake Up	3:34
6. Slap Them Up	3:59
7. Sound of Da Police	4:18
8. Mad Crew	4:25
9. Uh Oh	4:06
10. Brown Skin Woman	4:39
11. Return of The Boom Bap	3:47
12. "P" is Still Free	4:57
13. Stop Frontin'	3:19
14. Higher Level	5:14

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Review

By 1993, hip-hop was transitioning from an organic form of musical expression into a big business fabricating stars. With many icons from his era either aging or losing their relevance (e.g., Chuck D, Rakim), KRS-ONE dropped a gem of an album that not only navigated the sound of the day but led the charge. Shedding his previous Boogie Down Productions moniker, KRS-One's Return of the Boom Bap is not just an album: it's KRS's call to arms for the return of hard beats and real rap in hip-hop music. The former took many forms, thanks to the recruitment of Gang Starr's DJ Premier, who was hitting his stride as hip-hop's preeminent beat-maker. Primo crafted the classic head-nod rhythm of the title track, the bump of "Outta Here," an autobiographical tale of KRS-One's rise in hip-hop, and the dancehall-inspired riddims of "Black Cop" and "Sound of da Police." Lyrically, KRS-One displayed variety in both style and content, meshing old-school bombast ("Mortal Thought"), consciousness ("Higher Level"), and crafty and conceptual wordplay ("I Can't Wake Up"). The album opens with KRS-One boasting, even decreeing, that he would "be here forever." At the crossroads, this album made it seem true. --Joseph Patel

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Return of the Boom Bap

Tracks: 14, Disk length: 56m 5s (+0m 1s)

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