KRS is actually in my top five. Lyrically, he was always entertaining and was someone that you could respect and admire. KRS could adapt to any style. He could be an educator and talk about Egypt on one track and destroy the competition with battle raps on another track........on the same album.
I remember the first time I heard BDP, which was "South Bronx" in ninth grade. Since then, I've been a KRS fan and I believe that he was one of those very few rappers that personified what hip hop is and should be (Rakim, Kane, Chuck, and Kool G. Rap being some of the others).
I can't even name my top five KRS/BDP songs because there are too many, but some of my favorites include "Poetry," "The Bridge is Over," "My Philosophy," "I'm Still #1," "You Must Learn," "Blackman in Effect," "The Kenny Parker Show," "Sound of da Police," and "Step Into a World (Rapture's Delight)."