Q 01/05

Big K.R.I.T.'s stage name is a backronym, also the title of his 2013 mixtape, for what phrase?

A) Kings Rule in Tennessee

B) Knowledge Reigns in Truth

C) Keep Rising in Triumph

D) King Remembered in Time

Answer · why

D) King Remembered in Time

King Remembered in Time was fitted to the letters afterwards. He first rapped under a longer name and cut it down to four letters before giving them a...

Q 02/05

Which string instrument did Big K.R.I.T. play at school, learning to read music long before he made beats?

A) Violin

B) Cello

C) Viola

D) Harp

Answer · why

B) Cello

Cello was his instrument from elementary school through junior high. He has said that being able to read music helped him enormously once he started p...

Q 03/05

Unable to afford beats, a young Big K.R.I.T. made his own on MTV Music Generator for which console?

A) PlayStation

B) Sega Dreamcast

C) Nintendo 64

D) Game Boy Color

Answer · why

A) PlayStation

PlayStation owners got the music sequencer in 1999. He has said he was young, had no job and could not pay for beats, so he taught himself to make the...

Q 04/05

Which sport did Big K.R.I.T. hope to play professionally before he sold his first beat in the 11th grade?

A) Basketball

B) Football

C) Baseball

D) Boxing

Answer · why

C) Baseball

Baseball came first: he threw a no-hitter to win a state championship in Biloxi. Selling a beat in high school showed him he could earn from music str...

Q 05/05

Which blues legend, then in his eighties, recorded a guest spot for Big K.R.I.T.'s 2012 debut album?

A) Buddy Guy

B) B.B. King

C) Bobby Rush

D) Taj Mahal

Answer · why

B) B.B. King

B.B. King guests on Praying Man, near the end of Live from the Underground. He was 86 when the album came out, some sixty years older than the rapper ...