Blog: PopMatters

On his first official album, there's no sense that Big K.R.I.T. has changed his established ethos or pandered to label demands. I approached Live from the Underground of the opinion that Big K.R.I.T. is the most exciting hip-hop artist to emerge in the last few years. A big statement, yes, but one based purely on the quality of his output thus far. Dropping beautifully constructed mixtapes every few months, the Mississippi native has been at the forefront of hip-hop's revaluation of what actually constitutes a mixtape, releasing a number of fully-functioning, fully-original and fully-free records that...