Criminal Minded
Studio album by Boogie Down Productions
Released	January 1, 1987
Recorded	1986
Genre	Hip-hop
Length	??:??
Label	B-Boy Records
Producer(s)	Ced-Gee, Scott La Rock, KRS-One
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Boogie Down Productions chronology
	Criminal Minded (1987)	By All Means Necessary (1988)

Criminal Minded by Boogie Down Productions is a highly influential hip hop album. Production duties on the LP are credited to 'Blastmaster' KRS-One (L. 'Kris' Parker) and DJ Scott La Rock (Scott Sterling), but in future interviews it has been revealed that an uncredited Ced-Gee (Cedric Miller) of The Ultramagnetic MCs had a key role in crafting the sound of the LP. In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source Magazine's 100 Best Rap Albums.^[1] In 2003, the album was ranked number 444 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Image File history File links Bdp1. ... A Studio Album is an album of regular studio recordings. ... Boogie Down Productions (1989) Boogie Down Productions was originally composed of KRS One, D Nice, and DJ Scott La Rock. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the performers, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes . ... Scott Sterling (March 2, 1962–August 27, 1987), better known by his stage name Scott La Rock, was the original DJ for the hip hop group Boogie Down Productions. ... KRS-One (born Lawrence Krisna Parker on August 20, 1965 in Brooklyn, New York. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 5_stars. ... Boogie Down Productions (1989) Boogie Down Productions was originally composed of KRS One, D Nice, and DJ Scott La Rock. ... By All Means Necessary is the sophomore album from Hip Hop group Boogie Down Productions. ... Boogie Down Productions (1989) Boogie Down Productions was originally composed of KRS One, D Nice, and DJ Scott La Rock. ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... KRS-One (born Lawrence Krisna Parker on August 20, 1965 in Brooklyn, New York. ... Scott Sterling (March 2, 1962–August 27, 1987), better known by his stage name Scott La Rock, was the original DJ for the hip hop group Boogie Down Productions. ... The Ultramagnetic MCs were a rap group whose members included Kool Keith, Ced Gee, TR Love and Moe Love. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... January 1998 cover of The Source The Source Magazines 100 Best Rap Albums is a list published by popular Hip Hop magazine The Source, featured in their January 1998 issue [1]. The list, along with The Source Magazines 100 Best Rap Singles, were created to commemorate the magazine... Rolling Stone is an American magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published bi-weekly. ... The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time was the cover story of a special issue of Rolling Stone magazine published in November 2003. ...

Overview

Released in early 1987, the album sampled records from James Brown and AC/DC, and also flaunted a reggae influence. The songs, “South Bronx” & “The Bridge is Over” (a reference to the Queensbridge Housing Projects) ignited a famous rivalry with the Queens-bred rapper MC Shan (see the The Bridge Wars). The album is also credited with providing a prototype for East Coast gangster rap to develop from. For instance, the cover, which showcases Parker and Sterling surrounded by an arsenal of weapons, was hip-hop’s first major release to feature members brandishing firearms. The album also contained several seminal hardcore songs such as “9mm Goes Bang” (one of the first rap songs to be based around a first-person crime narrative) and "P Is Free" (which details an encounter with a drug-abusing prostitute for perhaps the first time on record). Link title James Joseph Brown, Jr. ... This article is about the band. ... { Reggae is a music genre developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. ... Queensbridge Houses is the largest public housing development in the United States. ... Shawn Moltke is an American rapper who uses the stage name MC Shan. ... History The Bridge Wars was a hip hop rivalry during the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s, that arose from a dispute over the true birthplace of hip hop music and retaliation over the rejecting of a record for airplay. ... East Coast hip hop (sometimes also referred to as New York hip hop) is a style of hip hop music that originated in New York City during the early-1970s. ... Gangsta rap, also known as hardcore hip-hop, was the name given to the subgenre of hip hop which often involved lyrical subjects based on the violence and misogyny inherent in the lifestyle of street thugs and gangsters. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... A seminal work [semen = seed (from the Latin seminalis)] is a work from which other works come--it is an engendering work which is so important in its ideas or technique that other people take these up and create new works too. ... Drug abuse has a wide range of definitions, all of them relating either to the misuse or overuse of a psychoactive drug or performance enhancing drug for a non-therapeutic or non-medical effect. ... Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically manual stimulation, oral sex, sexual intercourse, or anal sex) for cash or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. ...

Controversy

Initially, the album sold at least several hundred thousand copies; however, the relationship between the group and B-Boy Records quickly deteriorated when the latter was allegedly slow to pay royalties. A lawsuit was launched, which was eventually settled out-of-court. Having left B-Boy Records, new friend Ice-T introduced them to a Warner Bros. A&R exec, who promptly signed them to a new record deal. The deal was short-lived, however. By this time, Sterling had befriended a neighborhood teenager, Derek ‘D-Nice’ Jones, who did a human beatbox routine for the group. One evening, Jones was assaulted by some local hoodlums and he later called Sterling to run interference. The next day, Sterling and a group of others came to the stoop where the offending parties lived. Sterling’s intention was to try and mediate things, but one of the hoods pulled out a gun and began shooting at random. In the ensuing confusion, Sterling was hit in the neck. Critically wounded, he died several days later in a hospital, leaving behind an infant son. Tracy Marrow (born February 16, 1958)[1], better known by stage name Ice-T, is an American rapper, rock musician, author, and actor. ... D Nice is a rapper and hip hop musician who began his career in the mid-1980s. ...

Warner Bros. reneged on the new deal in the aftermath of Sterling’s death. Parker decided that the group should continue. A handful of friends were brought into the collective, including Parker’s new wife Ms. Melodie and brother Kenny Parker, with whom he had just recently reunited. Signing with Jive Records, Parker recorded eight albums for them in 10 years, eventually dropping the ‘Boogie Down Productions’ group moniker and billing himself as a solo performer. REM and others recruited him for collaborations, and he was among the few rap acts at the Beastie Boys’ Tibetan Freedom Concerts. Meanwhile, Criminal Minded has been notoriously hard to find, falling in and out of print every few years, surfacing with a different distributor every time. Currently, the Boston-based independent label Landspeed Records has landed the distribution rights to Criminal Minded, hence the latest re-release in 2002. An expanded re-release, The Best of B-Boy Records: Boogie Down Productions, includes several 12" singles that didn't make Criminal Minded's original pressing. Ms. ...

Track listing

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Album Chart Positions

References

1. ^ http://www.rocklist.net/source.htm