{"id":1428,"date":"2010-01-07T00:24:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T00:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2011-04-10T20:32:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T01:32:46","slug":"krob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/artists\/emcees\/krob.htm","title":{"rendered":"K Rob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>K Rob would most likely be a forgotten name were it not for a well conceived  collaboration with <a href=\"\/artists\/emcees\/rammellzee.htm\">Rammellzee <\/a>called &#8220;Beat Bop&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The song came about  when <a href=\"\/others\/fab5freddy.htm\">Fab 5 Freddy<\/a> took the Rammellzee to meet Jean-Michel Basquiat, a well known  artist.\u00a0 Rammellzee, a graf writer, thought Basquiat was a fraud.\u00a0  Their conversation got heated and turned into a sort of battle.<\/p>\n<p>Basquiat  attempted to flex his emcee talent, but Rammellzee tossed the lyrics and told  partner K Rob to go off on a different level.\u00a0 The song eventually was  released as &#8220;Beat Bop&#8221; by Rammellzee vs. K Rob.<\/p>\n<p>It was often sold  for as much as $1000 at the time because of its artwork on the cover done by  Basquiat.<\/p>\n<p>Originally released on Tartwon Records in 1983 it was later picked up by  Profile Records.<\/p>\n<p>Another K Rob notable track was &#8220;I&#8217;m A Homeboy&#8221; a collaboration with<a href=\"\/artists\/emcees\/wordofmouth.htm\"> DJ Cheese<\/a> in 1986.\u00a0 It was produced by <a href=\"\/artists\/emcees\/dukebootee.htm\">Duke Bootee<\/a> for Beauty and the Beat  Records.<\/p>\n<p>Another 12&#8243; was &#8220;The Day K-Rob Came Back&#8221;\/&#8221;Hey Hey  Hey&#8221; on Profile in 1986.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Check out &#8220;Beat Bop&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9I56Kkxh_os?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=1&amp;theme=dark\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Additional info submitted by Ed<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"\/artists\/emcees.htm\">Back to MC&#8217;s Biographies<\/a><br \/>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K Rob would most likely be a forgotten name were it not for a well conceived collaboration with Rammellzee called &#8220;Beat Bop&#8221; The song came about when Fab 5 Freddy took the Rammellzee to meet Jean-Michel Basquiat, a well known artist.\u00a0 Rammellzee, a graf writer, thought Basquiat was a fraud.\u00a0 Their conversation got heated and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,84,26,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}