How do you feel about I Got Next by KRS?

[Lurking Class Hero]

One of the more peculiar albums in KRS cannon. Has some obviously classic material, but it's not uncommon to hear some older heads say it's wack.

KRS is experimenting with flows, concepts and even genres here. I think is the only KRS joint to go gold and is a sort of mainstream hardcore hip hop album. KRS rapping with Puff is a real WTF moment.

So what do you guys think of I Got Next?

I'd especially like to hear what the reaction was in real time from older heads.

 

[BlackDiBiase]

I've never heard a KRS and Puff track wow.

I'm just wondering if he still has a battle rap for every MC on the billboard TOP 10 charts like he told us he does to keep sharp.

KRS V Lil Baby lol, his recent YouTube lectures are dope.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

I liked it at the time. Step Into a World is one of his best singles the beat is just great. But this is the last KRS album I liked. I liked it better than Return of the Boom Bap but KRS self titled with Rappas Are In Danger, Mc Act Like They Don't Know I like better. But all 3 are dope to me.

 

[erker]

This is a classic album to me. Step into A World, The MC, A Friend, Can't Stop Won't Stop (beat by Muggs!), Over Ya Head. I love the instrumental track Klassicks. And the damn freestyles man, especially track 2 where he tells the audience to put their tapedecks on record ("educate yourself make your worldview bigger, visualize wealth and put yourself in the picturrrrrrrre"). They don't make 'em like this anymore.

 

[Awesome Wells]

It was a cool album.

Definitely didn't like it as much as Return of the Boom Bap and the self-titled joint right before it. I loved "A Friend" and "The MC", and a couple of the other joints on there. But I didn't listen to it a lot when it dropped, away from the couple tracks I kinda liked back then. KRS is one of my Top 5 GOAT's, and he dropped like another 14-15 albums after this, but I never f*cked with any of them. This album is where the run ended for me.

 

[Plankton]

Source magazine gave it 3 1/2 mics and that was right on point. The album was hit and miss. That album was the last time you heard KRS music heavy in the streets of NYC. By the time Sneak Attack came in 2001 the game was different. KRS said he named the album I Got Next so that when you are looking at your tape or cd collection and you are wondering what to play, you will see his tape/cd and him gesturing how he 'got next' on the cover as if you will chose his tape/cd to throw on on some 'put me in the game coach' type shyt. I hated that rock song at the end. I felt that when Scarface did the song "Warriors" on the My Homies album that was a great way to do a rock song on a Hip Hop album compared to what KRS did. I remember that outro where he was talking about Aquarius had me believing KRS might be a prophet walking the Earth. Of course I was still an impressionable young naive teen who smoked a lot of weed.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

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[erker]

It was a cool album.

Definitely didn't like it as much as Return of the Boom Bap and the self-titled joint right before it. I loved "A Friend" and "The MC", and a couple of the other joints on there. But I didn't listen to it a lot when it dropped, away from the couple tracks I kinda liked back then. KRS is one of my Top 5 GOAT's, and he dropped like another 14-15 albums after this, but I never f*cked with any of them. This album is where the run ended for me.

He had a couple of great albums after this one. Sneak Attack, Hip Hop Lives (with Marley Marl) and the album with True Master come to mind.

 

[Awesome Wells]

He had a couple of great albums after this one. Sneak Attack, Hip Hop Lives (with Marley Marl) and the album with True Master come to mind.

For whatever reason, I couldn't get into them.

I tried with all of them. But always felt something was missing. So I've stuck with the BDP joints and the first couple of solos.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

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