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Sound of Da Police
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KRS-One
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Sound of Da Police Technique
Great lyrics move us like the world's best poems. Take a close-up look at the art.
Calling Card
"To me being hardcore is when you hit the core of your audience hard. To me, R. Kelly is hardcore," KRS-One told Vibe in 1995. This is one of a pretty much countless stream of quirky wisdoms and...
Music
One of KRS-One's musical signatures is his integration of Caribbean/Jamaican sounds into his hardcore rap style. Raised in Brooklyn by a Jamaican mother and then transplanted to the Bronx as a hom...
