Big K.R.I.T.
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40 free Big K.R.I.T. trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Big K.R.I.T. is one of Southern hip-hop's most admired rapper-producers, an artist who built his name on free mixtapes he wrote, produced and mixed largely by himself. People who look him up usually want the story behind the stage name, where he comes from and how the albums fit together, and this quiz covers that ground. The questions run from his childhood in Mississippi and his first steps as a beatmaker to the breakout mixtapes, the major-label years of Live from the Underground and Cadillactica, and the independent run that began with 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time. Expect his best-known guests and collaborations, the people who signed him, and the stories behind a few signature songs. It is pitched for fans of Southern rap, with easier openers for casual listeners and a handful of deep cuts for anyone who downloaded the tapes when they first appeared. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Big K.R.I.T.'s stage name is a backronym, also the title of his 2013 mixtape, for what phrase?
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 meaning.
Q 02Which string instrument did Big K.R.I.T. play at school, learning to read music long before he made beats?
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 producing.
Q 03Unable to afford beats, a young Big K.R.I.T. made his own on MTV Music Generator for which console?
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 them on it.
Q 04Which sport did Big K.R.I.T. hope to play professionally before he sold his first beat in the 11th grade?
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 straight away.
Q 05Which blues legend, then in his eighties, recorded a guest spot for Big K.R.I.T.'s 2012 debut album?
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 who produced it.
Q 06Big K.R.I.T. wrote Mt. Olympus a day after which rapper named him in a 2013 verse on Big Sean's Control?
Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar called out eleven rappers by name on that verse. K.R.I.T. held his reply back until April 2014, reasoning that an instant answer would not have helped him.
Q 07Big K.R.I.T. was born in which Mississippi city, the hometown of country music pioneer Jimmie Rodgers?
Meridian
Meridian was built around railways and manufacturing in eastern Mississippi. K.R.I.T. has said he grew up in the heart of its ghetto and stayed out of trouble by throwing himself into music.
Q 08In which room of his grandmother's house did a teenage Big K.R.I.T. record his first songs?
The kitchen
The kitchen became his studio after a local producer handed down some recording equipment, giving him the means to record his own songs for the first time.
Q 09Big K.R.I.T. says the title of his 2014 album Cadillactica names what kind of place, standing for his mind?
A planet
A planet he invented, Cadillactica is where he says the soul and funk in his music come from. It is the home of the car that crash-lands on Earth on his debut album's cover.
Q 10After twelve freestyles in twelve hours in 2016, Big K.R.I.T. announced his split from which major label?
Def Jam
Def Jam had signed him in 2010 and released his first two studio albums, both of which entered the Billboard 200 at number five. He put out his next one independently.
Q 11What is Big K.R.I.T.'s birth name, which also titles one disc of his 2017 album 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time?
Justin Scott
Justin Scott is the second disc, which opens with a track of the same name. The first disc is titled after his stage name and opens the same way.
Q 12Which Atlanta rapper joined the 2011 remix of Big K.R.I.T.'s breakout single, whose video was partly shot in Texas?
Ludacris
Ludacris joined a Texas veteran on the remix, which was nominated for Best Collab at the 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards. Its video was filmed in Mississippi, Atlanta and Port Arthur.
Q 13Big K.R.I.T. produced and guested on I'm Flexin', a 2011 comeback single by which rapper just out of prison?
T.I.
Q 21Big K.R.I.T. was among the producers of Return of the Trill, a 2018 solo album by which Texas rapper?
Bun B
Bun B also gave him a guest spot on the record. The two had history: the Texas rapper appeared on both of K.R.I.T.'s first two studio albums.
Q 22Whose 2012 album Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors features Big K.R.I.T. on the song Gossip?
Big Boi
Big Boi put him on Gossip alongside UGK, pairing the Mississippi rapper with one of the acts he names as an influence.
Q 23Big K.R.I.T. guests on Brimstone, a track from the 2014 album Hood Billionaire by which Florida rapper?
Rick Ross
Rick Ross released Hood Billionaire only eight months after Mastermind, as his second album of 2014. He had already rapped on a song from K.R.I.T.'s promotional week that March.
T.I. made it his first release after an 11-month sentence. It gave K.R.I.T. his first entry on the Billboard Hot 100, where the song reached number 66.
Q 14Which magazine put Big K.R.I.T. on its 2011 Freshman Class cover beside Mac Miller, Meek Mill and YG?
XXL
XXL picks around ten rising rappers for the cover each year, and a place on it is credited with giving many of them their first taste of fame. The 2011 class ran to eleven.
Q 15Which hip-hop group featured Big K.R.I.T. on Make My, the lead single from its 2011 album Undun?
The Roots
The Roots made Undun a concept album that tells one fictional man's short life in reverse. Make My came out a month ahead of it.
Q 16Big K.R.I.T. guested on Kush & Orange Juice, the 2010 mixtape by which Pittsburgh rapper he later opened for?
Wiz Khalifa
Wiz Khalifa took him out on the Waken Baken Tour that November. The pair were still working together in 2022, on the joint album Full Court Press.
Q 17Which rapper put Big K.R.I.T. on the 2013 posse cut 1 Train and called his verse the favourite?
ASAP Rocky
ASAP Rocky pieced the six guest verses together himself and chose their order, wanting a posse cut that felt like a 1990s original.
Q 18Big K.R.I.T. plays the church organ in the video for Mayday, a 2012 single by which Christian rapper?
Lecrae
Lecrae released it on Gravity, the first album by a hip-hop artist to win the Grammy for Best Gospel Album. K.R.I.T.'s verse voices his frustration with church hypocrisy.
Q 19Big K.R.I.T. is a guest rapper on Side Effects of You, a 2013 album by which American Idol winner?
Fantasia
Fantasia saw the record, billed as rock soul, enter the Billboard 200 at number two. Missy Elliott is its other guest rapper.
Q 20Big K.R.I.T. co-headlined the 2011 Smoker's Club Tour with Curren$y and which member of the Wu-Tang Clan?
Method Man
Method Man shared the bill for six weeks that autumn. The first Smoker's Club show had been a showcase in Austin during SXSW, and K.R.I.T. played that one too.
Q 24Which North Carolina rapper guests on Prove It, a track from Big K.R.I.T.'s 2019 album K.R.I.T. Iz Here?
J. Cole
J. Cole and K.R.I.T. had been rivals for Best Mixtape at the 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards, and both were named in the same 2013 call-out verse.
Q 25Big K.R.I.T.'s 2019 single Addiction pairs New Orleans star Lil Wayne with which California rapper?
Saweetie
Saweetie was two years on from her debut single, Icy Grl, when the collaboration came out. It arrived less than three weeks before the album.
Q 26Which R&B singer and producer joins Big K.R.I.T. on Soul Food, a single from his 2014 album Cadillactica?
Raphael Saadiq
Raphael Saadiq also produced the track. It marked a change for K.R.I.T., who had made every beat on his debut album himself.
Q 27Which R&B singer features on 1999, a Big K.R.I.T. single that borrows from Guy's Piece of My Love?
Lloyd
Lloyd is the featured voice on the track, which went to urban radio in February 2018 as the fourth single from 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time.
Q 28Which fellow Southern rapper guests on Big K.R.I.T.'s self-produced 2011 mixtape Return of 4Eva?
David Banner
David Banner, raised in Jackson, is also among the influences K.R.I.T. names. Rolling Stone ranked the mixtape the 32nd best album of 2011.
Q 29In 2012 Big K.R.I.T. confirmed he was planning a joint album, Country Cousins, with which fellow Southern rapper?
Yelawolf
Yelawolf had shared a magazine's 2011 Freshman cover with him, and both rapped on the same 2013 posse cut. The joint album was never released.
Q 30Asked in 2012 to name his favourite rappers, Big K.R.I.T. began with which Houston veteran of the Geto Boys?
Scarface
Scarface was the only solo artist he named. The rest of his answer was three Southern acts: Outkast, UGK and 8Ball & MJG.