Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
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Artist: Boogie Down ProductionsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2005-09-27
Music Label: Traffic Entertainment/B Boy Records
Soundtracks:
- Poetry
- South Bronx
- 9mm Goes Bang
- Word From Our Sponsor
- Elementary
- Dope Beat
- Remix For P Is Free
- The Bridge Is Over
- Super-Hoe
- Criminal Minded
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Free Music Review: The beginning of the KRS-ONE legacy--
Hit: 5 Stars
Criminal Minded: The beginning of the KRS-One saga
Put together by an ex-social worker and his formerly homeless client, Boogie Down Productions' DJ Scott La Rock and KRS-One introduced Criminal Minded to the hip-hop public in early 1987, after a year or so of dropping 12-inch singles on the indie B-Boy Records, and making a name for themselves in New York's underground hip-hop circles. The 10-track, groundbreaking album by BDP is definitely up there with the greatest rap albums of all time. The production by the artists (and according to many interviews, an un-credited Ced Gee of the Ultramagnetic MC's) brought a new sampling aesthetic to hip-hop, focusing heavily on then-dusty James Brown sides from the 60's & 70's. In KRS-One's rhymes listeners can hear a rapper whose intention is not just to entertain but to educate. The album opens with "Poetry", with a trademark James Brown scream; KRS declares "I'm not an MC, so listen--call me poet or musician". "9mm Goes Bang" is a reggae-driven tale of street revenge, focusing on the fictional "crack dealer named Peter". The Bronx-based act made instant rivals in the Queens-based Juice Crew, as evidenced in songs "South Bronx" and the perennial "diss record" favorite "The Bridge is Over" (with an oblique nod to Billy Joel at the end). "Dope Beat" samples AC/DC's "Back in Black", making for an influential rap/metal combo. The title track reinterprets the opening lines of the Beatles' "Hey Jude" with subversive results. In the ensuing years since the LP's first release, the album has fallen in and out of print several times. Fortunately, Traffic Entertainment (formerly Landspeed) has secured the catalog rights, and made the album available again. Subsequent re-releases have tacked on a few bonus tracks or an entire instrumentals disc.
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Traffic Entertainment and B Boy Records present one of the most influential and original albums in music history, ?Criminal Minded? by Boogie Down Productions. KRS-ONE?s combination of street slang and Webster?s dictionary knowledge backed with Scott La Rock?s hard hitting, minimal beats set this record apart when it was originally released in 1986. With this now classic debut album, BDP helped redefine the New York rap music scene. ?Criminal Minded? elevated the standards to a new level and proved that rap could be a dynamic and consciousness-raising medium. KRS-ONE has gone on to become one of the most prolific and critically-acclaimed artists in Hip Hop history. A true classic, ?Criminal Minded? was included in Vibe Magazine?s 100 Essential Albums of the 20th century.Pop Music CDs
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