Next Saturday, the Merriman Valley will get a blast from the Bronx when hip-hop legend KRS-One performs at Club 4X on Akron-Peninsula Road. KRS-One and Boogie Down Productions, the group he started with late DJ/producer Scott La Rock, are legends in a genre that tends to discard veteran artists, particularly emcees who don’t follow the current zeitgeist. KRS-One certainly doesn’t do The Whip or The Nae Nae, and you will never see him dancing like Drake in any video. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, KRS-One dropped many a classic, including The Bridge Is Over, My...
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