TEAM RNS PRESENTS

ARTIST: Kriss Kross

0hr 59min total- 57.4mb

RELEASE DATE: 1993-00-00
RIP DATE: 2004-04-03

03 Sound Of My Hood               4:03
04 It Don't Stop                  4:26
05 DJ Nabs Break                  2:48

08 2 Da Beat Ch'yall              5:45
09 Freak Da Funk                  4:42
10 A Lot 2 Live For               3:16
11 Take Um Out                    7:05
12 Alright (Extended Remix)       9:19

With as much exposure as Kris Kross
got, it was perhaps inevitable that the
backlash would be quick in coming. With a
heavily preteen audience, it was also
inevitable that their fans would have
moved on by the time they issued a
follow-up, even if that follow-up came
only a year later. Perhaps it wasn't
inevitable, but that's the way it worked
out for Da Bomb. The MCs' voices have
already changed, but not enough to
really reinvent them for a more mature
audience or give them street appeal. Yet
there's evidence that they're trying:
They're allowed to use the word
"niggas" this time around, and both
"Sound of My Hood" and "I'm Real"
sample vocal snippets from Dr. Dre's The
Chronic. Not that Kris Kross has gone
hardcore by any means; it seems more
like producer Jermaine Dupri was hoping
for an instant signifier of street
credibility. A more important problem with
Da Bomb is that there are no singles as
instantly indelible as "Jump" or "Warm
It Up," and this kind of album lives
or dies by its singles. Whatever the
ultimate reason, Da Bomb failed to
duplicate the pop phenomenon of Totally
Krossed Out. Although ten years on, you
have to wonder how the album would have
done if they'd had the patronage of a
gangsta rapper and a budding movie career.