1 is the fourth studio album by American hip hop duo Blackalicious.

It was released on September 18, 2015, after a decade-long hiatus since their previous album, The Craft.

[1][2][3][4] The title of the album means "faith" in Swahili, and it is the first part of what was a planned trilogy of albums before Timothy Parker died of kidney failure in 2021.

[5] Work began on the album in 2012,[6] with the making of the album being crowdfunded via the website Pledgemusic.

[7] At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 75, based on 7 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".