KRS-One - Return of The Boom Bap (1993)

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01. KRS-One Attacks

02. Outta Here

03. Black Cop

04. Mortal Thought

05. I Can't Wake Up

06. Slap Them Up

07. Sound of Da Police

08. Mad Crew

09. Uh Oh

10. Brown Skin Woman

11. Return of the Boom Bap

12. "P" Is Still Free

13. Stop Frontin'

14. Higher Level

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By 1993, hip-hop was transitioning from an organic form of musical expression into a big business fabricating stars. With many icons from his era either aging or losing their relevance (e.g., Chuck D, Rakim), KRS-ONE dropped a gem of an album that not only navigated the sound of the day but led the charge. Shedding his previous Boogie Down Productions moniker, KRS-One's Return of the Boom Bap is not just an album: it's KRS's call to arms for the return of hard beats and real rap in hip-hop music. The former took many forms, thanks to the recruitment of Gang Starr's DJ Premier, who was hitting his stride as hip-hop's preeminent beat-maker. Primo crafted the classic head-nod rhythm of the title track, the bump of "Outta Here," an autobiographical tale of KRS-One's rise in hip-hop, and the dancehall-inspired riddims of "Black Cop" and "Sound of da Police." Lyrically, KRS-One displayed variety in both style and content, meshing old-school bombast ("Mortal Thought"), consciousness ("Higher Level"), and crafty and conceptual wordplay ("I Can't Wake Up"). The album opens with KRS-One boasting, even decreeing, that he would "be here forever." At the crossroads, this album made it seem true.

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Boogie Down Productions - Edutainment (1990)

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01. Exhibit A

02. Blackman in Effect

03. Ya Know the Rules

04. Exhibit B

05. Beef

06. House Nigga's

07. Exhibit C

08. Love's Gonna Get 'Cha (Material Love)

09. 100 Guns

10. Ya Strugglin'

11. Breath Control II

12. Exhibit D

13. Edutainment

14. The Homeless

15. Exhibit E

16. The Kenny Parker Show

17. Original Lyrics

18. The Racist

19. Dee Jays

20. Cops Or More

21. Exhibit F

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KRS-One's artistic winning streak continued with Edutainment, Boogie Down Productions' fourth album. True to form, he focuses on black history and speaks out on homelessness, racism, police excesses, and materialism with clarity and insight. KRS was often compared to Public Enemy leader Chuck D because of his consistently sociopolitical focus, but there's no mistaking the fact that his unique mixture of black nationalism, Eastern religion (both Hinduism and Buddhism), and Rastafarian philosophy is very much his own. From a commercial standpoint, he had become a little too intellectual and wasn't selling as many albums as many in rap's gangsta school. But from an artistic perspective, Edutainment is as commendable as it is riveting.

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Boogie Down Productions - Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip Hop (1989)

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01. The Style You Haven't Done Yet

02. Why Is That?

03. The Blueprint

04. Jack Of Spades

05. Jah Rulez

06. Breath Control

07. Who Protects Us from You?

08. You Must Learn

09. Hip Hop Rules

10. Bo! Bo! Bo!

11. Gimme, Dat, (Woy)

12. Ghetto Music

13. World Peace

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The second Boogie Down Productions album devoted mostly to consciousness raising, Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop finds KRS-One evolving into a fierce advocate for both his community and his chosen art form. He's particularly concerned about the direction of the latter: he's wary of hip-hop being co-opted by the pop mainstream, and the album's title comes from his conviction that real hip-hop is built on the vitality and rebelliousness of the streets. Accordingly, Ghetto Music contains a few more battle rhymes than usual, plus some showcases for pure MC technique, in keeping with the most basic elements of the music. The production, too, is still resolutely minimalist, and even if it's a little more fleshed-out than in the past, it consciously makes no concessions to pop or R&B accessibility. There are more reggae inflections in KRS-One's delivery than ever before, audible in about half the tracks here, and the production starts to echo dancehall more explicitly on a few. Meanwhile, as the Teacher, he's actually put together lesson plans for a couple tracks: "Why Is That?" and "You Must Learn" are basically lectures about biblical and African-American history, respectively. This is where KRS-One starts to fall prey to didacticism, but he has relevant points to make, and the rapping is surprisingly nimble given all the information he's trying to pack in. Elsewhere, "Who Protects Us from You?" is a bouncy anti-police-brutality rap, and KRS closes the album with the point that "World Peace" can only be achieved through a pragmatic, aggressive struggle for equality. Although Ghetto Music has a few signs that KRS is starting to take himself much more seriously (he dubs himself a metaphysician in the liner notes), overall it's another excellent effort by BDP.

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Boogie Down Productions - By All Means Necessary (1988)

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1. My Philosophy

2. Ya Slippin'

3. Stop the Violence

4. Illegal Business

5. Nervous

6. I'm Still No. 1

7. Part Time Suckers

8. Jimmy

9. T'Cha-T'Cha

10. Necessary

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Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded (1987)

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01 - Poetry (4:19)

02 - South Bronx (4:31)

03 - 9mm Goes Bang (4:10)

04 - Word From Our Sponsor (4:25)

05 - Elementary (4:26)

06 - Dope Beat (4:13)

07 - Remix For P Is Free (4:15)

08 - The Bridge Is Over (4:21)

09 - Super-Hoe (4:16)

10 - Criminal Minded (4:26)

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(One of the best rap album of all time!!)

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