Criminal Minded by Boogie Down Productions - discover this song's samples, covers and remixes on WhoSampled Criminal Minded is widely considered the foundation of hardcore rap, announcing its intentions with a cover photo of KRS-One and Scott La Rock (on his only album with Boogie Down Productions) posing with weapons -- an unheard-of gesture in 1987. It's contents include live radio interviews featuring Scott La Rock and …

Boogie Down Productions was a duo consisting of KRS-One and Scott La Rock, and Criminal Minded was released shortly before Scott La Rock being murdered.

A handful of friends were brought into the collective, including Parker's new wife Though one's moralistic quibbles do recede as history demonstrates how much worse things can get and how little music has to do with it, KRS-One's talk of fucking virgins and blowing brains out will never make him my B-boy of the first resort. Since its release, the album has been sampled, interpolated and paraphrased. am a poet," quips KRS in the opening verse, and this song

Boogie Down Productions was a hip hop group, originally composed of KRS-One, D-Nice, and DJ Scott La Rock.DJ Scott La Rock was murdered on August 27, 1987, five months after the release of BDP's debut album, Criminal Minded.The name of the group, Boogie Down, derives from a nickname for the South Bronx section of The Bronx, one of the five boroughs of New York City. Around the same time of the rise of the genre, New York was in the middle of a crack epidemic that saw a major spike in crime. BB4787; Vinyl LP). must have for any hip hop collector! Released 3 March 1987 on B-Boy (catalog no. Also sent me unused photos that never made the cut for the album cover as well (Can see them in my book Freddy Fresh Presents The Rap Records) hip-hop scene in the 1980's would have. MC Shan was undoubtedly the bigger star at the time, but many people have concluded that

that may not appear to be that important in an age of digital downloads and album ripping any soundsystem to the present day, as does the powerful lyrics KRS-One penned for "Poetry": Boogie Down Productions was a hip hop group, originally composed of KRS-One, D-Nice, and DJ Scott La Rock.

SO LOTS OF SHOOTING ,BRAGGING AND DIRTY WOMEN Nonetheless, Criminal Minded is quite the enjoyable record, full of dope rhymes (for 1987 at least) and hard hitting funk fresh beats that funk as hard as Run-D.M.C. High pitched sounds punctuate the bassline in places for a minimalistic melody, particularly

23. great album! New York was the centre of it all, and despite the amount of rap that was being sent out from the boroughs, many felt that it did not accurately represent the state of New York. listening to the early records of Schoolly D and Ice-T. "Criminal Minded" undoubtedly

AND BEFORE KRS RAPPED AGAINT VIOLENCE AND AFRICA STUFF. Curious to know what this was - other than the pic of KRS-One pointing a gun?

Existing album covers are displayed, but this is what happens when I use the web interface to tell Subsonic to download album covers: [2010-09-24 20:56:05,123] INFO CoverArtBatchService - Looking up cover art for Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded.

B Boy Records used the plaque I made them on the cover of this album and it was the first LP that thanked me in the credits. KRS-One "won the war" between the two, and it's hard to resist the temptation to reach that

comes back down between verses with a slow-winding bassline groove perfect for any dancehall. Criminal Minded went on to reach #73 on the Billboard Hip-Hop/R&B chart, was certified Gold, and is now considered an undisputed classic of ’80s hip-hop. station, DJ or mixtape of the era the temptation to pair them would have been irresistable. Featured peformers: Ced Gee (co-producer), Coli Allen (executive producer), R. Hogger (executive producer), Ray Wilson (executive producer), William Karnarra (executive producer), Dick Charles (aka_text {mastering … "If this meaning doesn't manifest put it to rest/I by many as a "ghost producer") there's no disputing the strong music backing this cut. MY FAVOURITE ALBUM OF ALL TIME. There are also a lot of people who love this album – personally I could never really get into it, the subject matter can get tiring if you’re not much interested in religious and spiritual matters. It's one of the fiercest diss songs in rap history: Another in the long string of 80s hip hop albums that I can't get into. where you can shuffle songs in any order.

Stripped down to only a snappy drum track for most of the lyrics, the song builds up and Year Album Label AllMusic Rating User Ratings ; 1987 : Criminal Minded: B-Boy Records 1988 : By All Means Necessary ... Criminal Minded: B-Boy Records (0) Parker, however, decided that the group should continue. at the end as the song winds down, and vocal samples of KRS-One sing-song chanting "la la la Back then, the crew also consisted of D-Nice, …