Criminal Minded (RSD Essential 2022)
Boogie Down Productions
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Release Date: 09/09/2022
BDP's first album - and the only one to include the late DJ Scott La Rock - sounded harder than hell when it came out in 1987. Though the simple beat-box patterns on a few tracks sound dated, most of La Rock's tracks are bluntly effective, especially the AC/DC riff he appropriates on 'Dope Beat'. And KRS-One still performs most of his 'Criminal Minded' rhymes, because his audience knows them word for word: the ultraviolent dancehall of '9mm Goes Bang', the battle cry of 'South Bronx' (and its counterpart, the anti-Juice Crew screed of 'The Bridge Is Over', with its little Billy Joel homage), the catalog of La Rock's condom collection on 'Super-Hoe'. KRS bloomed later; here, he just rocked.
1: Poetry
2: South Bronx
3: 9mm Goes Bang
4: Word from Our Sponsor
5: Elementary
6: Dope Beat
7: Remix for P Is Free
8: The Bridge Is Over
9: Super Hoe
10: Criminal Minded