KRS-One discography

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This is the discography of American rapper KRS-One.

Albums

Studio albums

More information Title, Album details ...
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
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
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Compilation albums

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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
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Mixtapes

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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
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Collaborative albums

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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
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Promotional albums

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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
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EPs

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List of extended plays
Title Details
Break the Chain (Psychosonic Comic!)[a]
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
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Singles

As lead artist

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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 [b] 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 [c] 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)
[d] 70 31 49 66 19
"Gunplay"
(featuring Apocalypse and Mo Money)[39]
1998 Non-album single
"Shutupayouface"[e][40] 2000 The Sneak Attack
"Hot" 40
"The Mind"[41] 2001
"Get Your Self Up" [f]
"South Bronx 2002"
(with The Temple of Hip hop)[42]
2002 Spiritual Minded
"Clear 'Em Out"
(featuring Tonedeff)[g][43]
The Difference Vol. 1
"The Message 2002"[44] The Mix Tape
"That's It"[45] 2003 Beef (Soundtrack)/Kristyles
"Underground"[46] Kristyles
"How Bad Do You Want It"
(featuring Peedo)[47]
KRS-One Presents Peedo & The Luna Empire/ Kristyles
"Let 'Em Have It" [h] Keep Right
"Illegal Business Remix 2004"[48] 2004
"Sound of da Police" (re-release) 36 Best of Rapture's Delight
"Boogie Down Ox"
(with Oh No and Ricci Rucker)[49]
2005 Non-album singles
"Gangsta House"[50]
"My Life"[51] 2006 Life
"Money/Amsterdam /My Soldier Boy"
(featuring MC Lyte)[52]
2007 Adventures in Emceein
"Criminal Minded '08"[i][53] 2008
"Rent"
(with Black Skeptik)[54]
2009
"Oh Really (Remix)"
(with Buckshot; featuring Talib Kweli & Geologic)[55]
Survival Skills
"Times Up"
(featuring Jesse West)[56]
2010 The BDP Album
"There It Is"
(with Just-Ice)[57]
2012 The Just-Ice and KRS-One EP, Vol. 1
"Rear View"
(with Substance Abuse)[58]
2013 Non-album singles
"Big Up New York"[59] 2014
"Kulture vs. Korporate"
(with Maylay Sage, Self Lion, Def Mass and Science)[60]
2017
"Hip Hop Nation"
(featuring Frank Fitzpatrick, K’naan and Lina)[61]
2019 Beat the World (Soundtrack)
"The Block Party"
(with Kid Capri)[62]
2020 Non-album single
"Krazy"[63] 2021 I M A M C R U 1 2
"Knock Em Out"[64]
"The Beginning"[65]
"Respect"
(with Grand Official)[66]
2022 Non-album singles
"The Real"
(with Tekneek On The Beat)[67]
2023
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Collaborative/Features

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Year Song US Hot 100 US R&B US Rap Album
1989 Self Destruction (with The Stop the Violence Movement) 12"
1991 Radio Song (R.E.M. featuring KRS-1) Out of Time
H.E.A.L. Yourself (with Big Daddy Kane, Harmony, LL Cool J, Ms. Melodie, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, Freddie Foxxx, Kid Capri, Run-DMC & Jam Master Jay) 12"
Rise N' Shine (Kool Moe Dee featuring KRS-1 & Chuck D) Funke, Funke Wisdom
The Jam (Shabba Ranks featuring KRS-1) As Raw as Ever
1995 Mad Izm (Channel Live featuring KRS-1) ` ` ` Station Identification
1, 2 Pass It (with D&D All-stars) ` ` ` The D&D Project, Vol. 1
1996 Double Trouble (with Mad Lion) ` ` ` 12"
East Coast/West Coast Killas (with Dr. Dre, RBX, Nas & B-Real) Dr. Dre Presents: The Aftermath
1997 "Men of Steel" (with Shaquille O'Neal, Ice Cube, B-Real, & Peter Gunz) 87 53 10 Steel (soundtrack)
1998 C.I.A. (Criminals In Action) [with The Last Emperor and Zack de la Rocha] ` ` ` Lyricist Lounge, Volume One
1999 5 Boroughs (with Buckshot, Cam'ron, Keith Murray, Killah Priest, Prodigy, Redman, Run & Vigilante) 79 10 The Corruptor (soundtrack)
The Anthem (with Sway & King Tech, RZA, Tech N9ne, Eminem, Pharoahe Monch, Xzibit, Kool G Rap, Jayo Felony & Chino XL) 72 This or That
2007 Classic (Better Than I've Ever Been) [DJ Premier Remix] {with Nas, Kanye West & Rakim} 84 20 Classic (Better Than I've Ever Been)
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
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Appearances

KRS One has appeared on several songs with other artists, and due to this he has received 9 Gold and 7 Platinum plaques.[68]

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.

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