KRS-One discography

This is the discography of American rapper KRS-One.

Albums

Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions, sales figures and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
US
[1]
US
R&B
/HH

[1]
US Ind.
[1]
CAN
[1]
GER
[2]
NLD
[3]
UK
[4]
UK
R&B

[4]
UK Ind.
[4]
Return of the Boom Bap 35 3
KRS-One
  • Released: October 10, 1995
  • Label: Jive
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette, digital download, streaming
19 2 23 95 13
I Got Next
  • Released: May 20, 1997
  • Label: Jive
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette, digital download, streaming
3 2 18 95 90 58 11
The Sneak Attack
  • Released: March 27, 2001
  • Label: Koch
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette, digital download, streaming
43 9 1 38
Kristyles
  • Released: April 22, 2003
  • Label: Koch
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
186 30 10
Keep Right
  • Released: July 13, 2004
  • Label: Grit
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download, streaming
80
Life
  • Released: June 13, 2006
  • Label: Image
  • Formats: CD
50
Adventures in Emceein
  • Released: February 5, 2008
  • Label: Echo-Vista
  • Formats: CD, streaming
180 57
Maximum Strength
  • Released: June 10, 2008
  • Label: Koch
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
78
The BDP Album
  • Released: January 10, 2012
  • Label: 682
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
Never Forget
  • Released: 2013[7]
  • Label: Front Page
  • Formats: CD
Now Hear This
  • Released: November 23, 2015[8]
  • Label: R.A.M.P./Vinyl Digital
  • Formats: CD, LP
The World Is MIND
  • Released: May 9, 2017[9]
  • Label: R.A.M.P.
  • Formats: CD, LP
Street Light (First Edition)
  • Released: November 8, 2019[10]
  • Label: R.A.M.P.
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
Between Da Protests
  • Released: December 21, 2020[11]
  • Label: R.A.M.P.
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
I M A M C R U 1 2
  • Released: February 22, 2022[12]
  • Label: R.A.M.P.
  • Formats: digital download, streaming
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

List of compilation albums, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
[1]
US
R&B
/HH

[1]
UK
R&B

[4]
UK Ind.
[4]
Strictly for da Breakdancers
  • Released: 1995[13]
  • Label: Front Page
  • Formats: LP
The Goddess Set/Strictly for da Emceez...
  • Released: 1995[14]
  • Label: Front Page
  • Formats: LP
Strictly for da Breakdancers & Emceez Volume 1
  • Released: 1996[15]
  • Label: Front Page
  • Formats: CD
Strictly for da Breakdancers & Emceez Volume 2
  • Released: 1996[16]
  • Label: Front Page
  • Formats: LP
Battle for Rap Supremacy
  • Released: November 19, 1996
  • Label: Cold Chillin'
  • Formats: CD, LP, Cassette
Aka Kris Parker
A Retrospective
  • Released: August 22, 2000
  • Label: Jive/RCA
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette, digital download, streaming
200 62 25 41
Strickly for da Breakdancers & Emceez
  • Released: August 21, 2001
  • Label: Cleopatra/X-Ray
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
Fundamentals of Hip Hop Volume 1
  • Released: 2002[18]
  • Label: self-released
  • Formats: CD
Best of Rapture's Delight
D.I.G.I.T.A.L.
  • Released: November 25, 2003
  • Label: Front Page/X-Ray
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
Playlist: The Very Best of KRS-One
  • Released: January 26, 2010[20]
  • Label: Sony Music/Jive
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
The Essential KRS-One and Boogie Down Productions
  • Released: March 14, 2014[21]
  • Label: Jive/Legacy
  • Formats: digital download, streaming
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Mixtapes

List of mixtapes, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
R&B
/HH

[1]
US Ind.
[1]
The Mix Tape
  • Released: August 27, 2002
  • Label: Koch
  • Formats: CD
32 17
Footsoldiers Mix
(with Footsoldiers)
  • Released: April 1, 2006[22]
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: digital download
King of the Ol' Skool
  • Released: 2008[23]
  • Label: Echo-Vista
  • Formats: digital download, streaming
The KRS-One Mixtape
(with DJ Opale)
  • Released: February 26, 2010
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: digital download
The Apprenticeship
(with Beast 1333)
  • Released: May 16, 2017[24]
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: digital download
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Collaborative albums

List of collaborative albums, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
[1]
US
R&B
/HH

[1]
US Ind.
[1]
US Rap
[1]
US Gospel
[1]
Spiritual Minded
(with The Temple of Hip hop)
  • Released: January 22, 2002
  • Label: Koch
  • Formats: CD, cassette, digital download
64 10 4
Hip Hop Lives
(with Marley Marl)
  • Released: May 22, 2007
  • Label: Koch
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
140 23 15 8
Survival Skills
(with Buckshot)
  • Released: September 15, 2009
  • Label: Duck Down
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download, streaming
62 19 9 11
Meta-Historical
(with True Master)
  • Released: August 31, 2010
  • Label: Fat Beats
  • Formats: CD, streaming
57 24
Godsville
(with Showbiz)
  • Released: February 15, 2011
  • Label: D.I.T.C.
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
Royalty Check
(with Bumpy Knuckles)
  • Released: May 31, 2011[25]
  • Label: 6.8.2
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download, streaming
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Promotional albums

List of promotional albums
Title Album details
55 Minutes Of KRS One - The Ultimate Street Mix Tape
(with Funkmaster Flex & J Grand; Mixtape; compilation album)
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Koch
  • Formats: CD
Unreleased, Freestyles and Remixes
(compilation album)
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: CD

EPs

List of extended plays
Title Details
Break the Chain (Psychosonic Comic!)[lower-alpha 1]
My People
  • Released: 2002[27]
  • Label: Temple of HipHop
  • Formats: digital download, streaming
What You Know About?
(with Q. Burse)
  • Released: 2005[28]
  • Label: Styluswars/Fancbass
  • Formats: LP, digital download, streaming
We Will Rock You
  • Released: April 1, 2007[29]
  • Label: X-Ray
  • Formats: digital download, streaming
Hip Hop Lives - Pre Release EP
(with Marley Marl)
  • Released: May 8, 2007[30]
  • Label: Koch
  • Formats: digital download, streaming
Radio
(with Eneeone)
  • Released: November 25, 2008[31]
  • Label: Deranged Music
  • Formats: digital download, streaming
The Just-Ice and Krs-One EP, Vol. 1
(with Just-Ice)
  • Released: May 3, 2010[32]
  • Label: WHOMAG
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
Back to the L.A.B. (Lyrical Ass Beating)
  • Released: May 12, 2010
  • Label: Digital
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
Memories - Remix EP
(with Just-Ice)
  • Released: November 6, 2012[33]
  • Label: Peasant Podium
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
Never Forget
  • Released: 2013.[34]
  • Label: Front Page
  • Formats: digital download, streaming
Green Related [Hip Hop & Dub Mix]
(featuring G. Simone)
  • Released: June 20, 2014[35]
  • Label: Lionpaw & Th3
  • Formats: digital download, streaming

Singles

As lead artist

List of singles and selected chart positions, showing year released and album name
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
US
[1]
US R&B
[1]
US Rap
[1]
NZ
[36]
UK
[4]
UK Dance
[4]
UK R&B
[4]
"Outta Here" 1993 [lower-alpha 2] 61 5 Return of the Boom Bap
"Sound of da Police" 89 79 17
"Return of the Boom Bap"[37] 1994
"MC's Act Like They Don't Know" 1995 57 35 9 84 12 KRS-One
"Rappaz R. N. Dainja" 47 20
"Big Timer" / "Pick It Up"
(featuring Mad Lion)[38]
Non-album single
"Word Perfect" / "The MC" / "Can't Stop, Won't Stop" 1996 [lower-alpha 3] 67 17 70 12 13 I Got Next
"Step into a World (Rapture's Delight)" 1997 70 23 8 10 24 4 6
"Heartbeat" / "A Friend"
(featuring Redman and Angie Martinez)
[lower-alpha 4] 70 31 49 66 19
"Men of Steel"
(with Shaquille O'Neal, Ice Cube, B-Real and Peter Gunz)
82 53 10 Steel Soundtrack
"5 Boroughs"
(featuring Bounty Killer, Buckshot, Cam'ron, Keith Murray, Killah Priest, Prodigy, Redman, Run and Vigilante)
1998 79 10 The Corruptor Soundtrack
"Bulworth (They Talk About It While We Live It)"
(with Method Man, Prodigy and Kam)[39]
Bulworth Soundtrack
"Gunplay"
(featuring Apocalypse and Mo Money)[40]
Non-album single
"Shutupayouface"[lower-alpha 5][41] 2000 The Sneak Attack
"Hot" 40
"The Mind"[42] 2001
"Get Your Self Up" [lower-alpha 6]
"South Bronx 2002"
(with The Temple of Hip hop)[43]
2002 Spiritual Minded
"Clear 'Em Out"
(featuring Tonedeff)[lower-alpha 7][44]
The Difference Vol. 1
"The Message 2002"[45] The Mix Tape
"That's It"[46] 2003 Beef Soundtrack and Kristyles
"Underground"[47] Kristyles
"How Bad Do You Want It"
(featuring Peedo)[48]
KRS-One Presents Peedo & The Luna Empire and Kristyles
"Let 'Em Have It" [lower-alpha 8] Keep Right
"Illegal Business Remix 2004"[49] 2004
"Sound of da Police" (re-release) 36 Best of Rapture's Delight
"Boogie Down Ox"
(with Oh No and Ricci Rucker)[50]
2005 Non-album singles
"Gangsta House"[51]
"My Life"[52] 2006 Life
"Money/Amsterdam /My Soldier Boy"
(featuring MC Lyte)[53]
2007 Adventures in Emceein
"Classic (Better Than I've Ever Been) (DJ Premier Remix)"
(with Kanye West, Nas, and Rakim)
Non-album singles
"Criminal Minded '08"[lower-alpha 9][54] 2008
"Rent"
(with Black Skeptik)[55]
2009
"Robot"
(with Buckshot and DJ Revolution)[56]
Survival Skills
"Oh Really (Remix)"
(with Buckshot; featuring Talib Kweli & Geologic)[57]
"Times Up"
(featuring Jesse West)[58]
2010 The BDP Album
"There It Is"
(with Just-Ice)[59]
2012 The Just-Ice and KRS-One EP, Vol. 1
"Rear View"
(with Substance Abuse)[60]
2013 Non-album singles
"Big Up New York"[61] 2014
"Kulture vs. Korporate"
(with Maylay Sage, Self Lion, Def Mass and Science)[62]
2017
"Hip Hop Nation"
(featuring Frank Fitzpatrick, K’naan and Lina)[63]
2019 Beat the World Soundtrack
"The Block Party"
(with Kid Capri)[64]
2020 Non-album single
"Krazy"[65] 2021 I M A M C R U 1 2
"Knock Em Out"[66]
"The Beginning"[67]
"Respect"
(with Grand Official)[68]
2022 Non-album singles
"The Real"
(with Tekneek On The Beat)[69]
2023
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Collaborative

Year Song US Hot 100 US R&B US Rap Album
1997 "Men of Steel" (with Shaquille O'Neal, Ice Cube, B-Real, & Peter Gunz) 87 53 10 Steel
1999 "5 Boroughs" (with Buckshot, Cam'ron, Keith Murray, Killah Priest, Prodigy, Redman, Run, Vigilante) 79 10 The Corruptor
2007 "Kill a Rapper" (with Marley Marl) Hip Hop Lives
"Hip Hop Lives" (with Marley Marl)
2008 "Self-Construction (Self-Destruction 2008)" (with various artists) non-album single
2009 "Robot" (with Buckshot) Survival Skills
"Survival Skills"
2011 "Show Power" Godsville

Appearances

KRS One has appeared on several songs with other artists, due to this he has received 9 Gold and 7 Platinum plaques. [70]

Notes

  1. released as Big Joe Krash
  2. "Outta Here" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number 6 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100.[1]
  3. "The MC" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number 18 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100.[1]
  4. "A Friend" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number 14 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100.[1]
  5. "Shutupayouface" was released as a split single with "Yes, Yes Y'all" by Schoolly D.
  6. "Get Your Self Up" did not enter the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, but peaked at number 53 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales.[1]
  7. "Clear 'Em Out" was released as a split single with "Rumble" by The High & Mighty.
  8. "Let 'Em Have It" did not enter the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, but peaked at number 55 on the ot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales.[1]
  9. "Criminal Minded '08" was released as a split single with "The Light '08" by Common and Midnight '08" by Q-Tip.

References

Notes

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    8. Now Hear This (track listing). Vinyl Digital. 2015. VINDIG395.
    9. The World Is MIND (track listing). Vinyl Digital. 2019. VINDIG396.
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    12. "I M a M C R U 1 2 - KRS-One - Release Info". Apple Music.
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    14. The Goddess Set / Strictly For Da Emceez... (track listing). Front Page Entertainment. 1995. FPLP 02.
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    16. Volume 2 Strictly For Da Breakdancers & Emceez (track listing). Front Page Entertainment. 1996. FPCD 872.
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    25. "Royalty Check - Bumpy Knuckles, KRS-One - Release Info". Apple Music.
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    28. What You Know About? (track listing). Styluswars. 2005. SWS-003.
    29. "We Will Rock You - KRS-One - Release Info". Apple Music.
    30. "Hip Hop Lives - KRS-One, Marley Marl - Release Info". Apple Music.
    31. "Radio - Eneeone, KRS-One - Release Info". Apple Music.
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    39. Bulworth (They Talk About It When We Live It) (track listing). Interscope Records. 1998. INT12-95026.
    40. Gunplay (track listing). Ace Of Spades. 1998. AOS-010.
    41. Shadup Ya Face / Yes, Yes Y'all (track listing). Artemis Records/Antra Records. 2000. ARTLP-08.
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    46. That's It / Stop It (track listing). Killah Pride Records. 2003. KP-1262.
    47. Undaground (track listing). Koch Records. 2003. KOC-SI-8674.
    48. How Bad Do You Want It (track listing). Koch Records. 2003. KOC-SI-9522.
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    50. Boogie Down Ox (track listing). OX: Operation Unknown/Counterflow Recordings. 2005. OX12000-1.
    51. Gangsta House B/W Watson Blues (track listing). Slaag Traax. 2005. SLT-001.
    52. My Life (track listing). Antagonist. 2006. ANT4167.
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    55. Rent (track listing). Mayhem Poets. 2009. 808391 108912.
    56. Robot / The DJ (track listing). Duck Down Music. 2007. DDM-SI-2122.
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    60. Rear View (track listing). Threshold Recordings. 2013. THR-3101.
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