KRS-One [ tickets ] will precede his forthcoming album, “The Sneak Attack” (Front Page), with a three-week long series of headlining club dates that begins on April 1 in Boston, according to his record label. The album is set for release on April 24.

After spending 13 years with Jive Records, “The Sneak Attack” marks KRS-One’s debut for indie label Front Page Recordings. The album will be distributed by KOCH Entertainment’s new hip-hop imprint, In the Paint Records, according to a press release from the label.

KRS-One says in the same press release that “The Sneak Attack” will “restore the focus of Hiphop Kulture. It will offer an alternative to the sometimes over-commercialized Rap product of today. I don't perform solely for money, I only rhyme when it is necessary, and it has become necessary.”

“The Sneak Attack” is KRS-One’s first release of all new material since 1997’s “I Got Next” (Jive). Jive also released a compilation album of the veteran rapper’s previously released material--“A Retrospective”--last August.

KRS-One--a.k.a. Kris Parker--launched his solo career with his 1993 release “Return of the Boom Bap” (Jive). He first rose to prominence in the ‘80s as a member of the hardcore hip-hop outfit Boogie Down Productions.