KRS-One — The Sneak Attack

Fourth solo studio album by South Bronx rapper KRS-One. The author makes eight rhythms, his brother Kenny Parker is credited as a producer of four songs, Domingo has three, Grand Daddy I.U., Jazzy Jeff of Funky 4+1, B.J. Wheeler, Fredwreck and Mad Lion contribute with a beat each. The album has no guests. KRS finds its own way with conscious, bravado, hip-hop lyrics, played with a decent style and muffled by a selection of minimal and simplistic, weak and uninspired music. Published by Koch Records, it's received in a positive but lukewarm way by critics, carving out its own space in the charts, in particular, the record becomes the last to reach the top 50 among the pop releases, the top 10 as a soloist in the rap chart and the only one to reach the first place, that of independent records. Consisting of an hour of material, nineteen tracks and several skits, the product is decent, even though it was the weakest in its catalog at the time. "HipHop Knowledge" is one of the highlights, Domingo guesses a production on which KRS sounds good. 6/10.