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  Big K.R.I.T. Brings a Turntable to 'Conan' for 'I Got This'

  June 27, 2012 – On Live From the Underground, Big K.R.I.T.'s proper debut LP after three album-like mixtapes, "I Got This" finds the skilled Mississippi rapper reaching back toward the squirmy funk synth lines of '90s West Coast G-funk. Performing the song last night on Conan, however, K.R.I.T. leaned toward a slightly different type of hip-hop classicism. Joined by DJ Wally Sparks and hypeman Big Sant, K.R.I.T. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: History Lessons From K.R.I.T. and Del

  June 22, 2012 – How do you honor an R&B legend? Do you drop said legend in 2012, pair them with hip musicians like Damon Albarn and buzzy artists like Lana Del Rey and take full advantage of their straggly old man voice, as is the case with Bobby Womack's The Bravest Man In The Universe? I don't think so. This new Womack record makes a good case for his scruffy old dude mortality, but who cares, because this is music we're talking about. …
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  Who Charted? Neil Young and Beach Boys' Collective Nostalgia Can't Beat Adele

  June 13, 2012 – First! As is the natural order of things, Adele is back at the top of Billboard 200 for the 24th week overall, after her NBC special "Adele Live in London" aired last Sunday and boosted sales of 21 by 30 percent. The album sold 72,000 copies, presumably all to one super-fan because there can't possibly be anyone in the country who hasn't bought this record yet. …
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  Rap Release of the Week: Big K.R.I.T.'s 'Live From the Underground'

  June 7, 2012 – Big K.R.I.T.'s style is a canny conflation of two, once-embattled rap undergrounds: Dead-serious conscious rap bumping up against wizened Dirty South artists like UGK and 8Ball & MJG. A hybrid of this kind of hip-hop with that type of rap music would've been an affront to hip-hop heads a decade ago. Now, an MC as milquetoast as J. …
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• Big K.R.I.T., 'Live From the Underground' (Island Def Jam)

  June 3, 2012 – Big K.R.I.T.'s Dirty South classicism is a gift and a curse. For all his bellicosity — celebrating "Country Shit" and rubber-band men and eating collard greens — he simply isn't as amorally opportunistic as, say, Gucci Mane, who probably would rap about selling china white to grade-school kids if it netted him more downloads. …
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  Big K.R.I.T. Goes '90s Retro for 'I Got This' Video

  May 7, 2012 – What did Big K.R.I.T. know about Coachella's death-defying '90s West Coast rap reunion and when did he know it? In late March, the Mississippi rapper followed up his staunchly Dirty South mixture 4evaNaDay with the the triumphantly smooth G-funk homage "I Got This," anticipating the old-school Southern California style that had the most people talking after the unofficial kickoff to festival season. …
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  Big K.R.I.T. Goes West Coast on New Single 'I Got This'

  March 21, 2012 – Mississippi's Big K.R.I.T. doesn't know the meaning of the word "breather." Less than three weeks after dropping his latest 17-track mixtape 4evaNaDay, he's already back with a brand new single called "I Got This," which he premiered yesterday on Sirius XM's Shade 45. The song appears to be the first from K.R.I.T.'s long-delayed major label debut album Live From the Underground, due out later this year, maybe. …
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  Santigold, Big K.R.I.T., Best Coast Deep-Fry SPIN's Austin BBQ

  March 17, 2012 – After Escort finished their set on the main stage at Stubb's, the afternoon's host, comic DC Pierson, commended the 17-piece disco army on having the fewest number of laptops allowed onstageby Austin ordinance: one. …
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  WeekSauce: SPIN's Friday Night Highlights

  March 16, 2012 – • There's a little party going on in Austin called SXSW, and somehow our staff wasn't too deep into a Corona-and-BBQ coma to file some reports on the happenings on Wednesday and Thursday. …
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  The First King: B.B. King Will Be on Big K.R.I.T.'s New Single

  March 15, 2012 – While down at SXSW this week, Mississippi and SPIN's Next Big Thing Big K.R.I.T. went on the air with Sway in the Morning on SiriusXM's Shade 45 and announced that the 86-year-old blues legend B.B. …
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