Live From The Underground

Two years since Mississippi rapper K.R.I.T. broke the scene with Krit Wuz Here, he's still wearing his Southern heritage like a diamond-encrusted chip on his shoulder.

As illustrated on the album’s cover, Live From The Underground’s title track concludes with a short skit in which Big K.R.I.T. crashes his Cadillac in a strange land called A&Rville, part of a realm known as the Mainstream. Mercifully, that narrative doesn’t carry through the whole album. The skit is just a brief…

Check out our album review of Artist's Live From the Underground on Rolling Stone.com.

Recalling a time when UGK and Scarface were the dominating Southern sound, Mississippi rapper/producer Big K.R.I.T. -- which stands for King Remembered In Time -- stone-cold rapped his way up through the mixtape underground, keeping quality control at top level by riding his own beats and delivering those right-clickable, free releases that came with the solid structure of something issued by Def Jam.

Big K.R.I.T. - Live From The Underground review: Enjoyable southern rap that emulates its influences well