K-Rob

{{short description|American rapper}}

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| background = solo_singer

| birth_name = Malik Johnson

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| genre = Hip hop

| occupation = Rapper

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| label = Profile

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Malik Johnson, better known as K-Rob, is an American rapper most famous for providing vocals for "Beat Bop" with Rammellzee in 1983. He was also a graffiti artist with the tag "Crane."{{Cite web|date=2013-11-14|title=Basquiat's 'Beat Bop': An Oral History of One of the Most Valuable Hip-Hop Records of All Time|url=https://www.spin.com/2013/11/beat-bop-basquiat-k-rob-rammellzee-freak-freak/|access-date=2021-09-14|website=SPIN}} He released the singles "I'm a Homeboy" and "The Day K-Rob Came Back" under his own name, in 1986.{{cite web|url=http://www.oldschoolhiphop.com/artists/emcees/krob.htm |title=OldSchoolHipHop.Com - K Rob Biography |accessdate=8 January 2010 |date=23 October 2007 |work=OldSchoolHipHop.Com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101105064606/http://oldschoolhiphop.com/artists/emcees/krob.htm |archivedate= 5 November 2010 }} Since the 1980s, however, aside from providing a verse for "Beat Bop Part 2" on 2004's Bi-Conicals of the Rammellzee, K-Rob has devoted himself more to his Muslim faith.{{cite web|url=http://www.cocaineblunts.com/blunts/?p=958 |title=BLUNT RAPS >> Rammellzee Interview |accessdate=8 January 2010 |date=24 April 2008 |work=Cocaine Blunts |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090824185950/http://www.cocaineblunts.com/blunts/?p=958 |archivedate= 24 August 2009 }}