Respecta.is - The Ultimate Hip Hop Portal

After setting suckers straight with Buckshot on 2009’s hard-hitting collaboration Survival Skills, legendary old-school Bronx, NY rapper KRS-One (Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Everyone) tosses another lyrical grenade into the fray with this explosive six-track EP. Over stellar beats provided by Da Beatminerz, Freddie Foxxx, JS-1, and DJ Kenny Parker, The Blastmaster investigates conspiracy theories on “Teknology,” calls out sucker MCs (again) on “Never Afraid,” and disses commercial has-beens on “Wolf.” His delivery is as raw and biting as when he first burst upon the underground hip-hop scene in the mid-‘80s as one-half of Boogie Down Productions, sporting instant classics like “The Bridge Is Over.” All of the rhyme-heavy songs on Back To The L.A.B. (Lyrical Ass Beating) clock in under the four-minute mark. Over two decades on the mic has finally taught KRS-One the importance of brevity.