Boogie Down Productions – Criminal Minded (Silver Vinyl)
- Label:
- Phase One Network, B-Boy
- Art.No.:
- 0154289
- Cat.No.:
- PONE 9004
- Released:
- 1987
- Cover:
- Picture
- Format:
- LP
- Pressing:
- US - Reissue
- Genre:
- + Old School + Hip Hop / Rap + United States + RSD + UVP
2022 Reissue / Repress - Criminal Minded 35th Anniversary.
RSD Essentials Series - Metallic Silver Vinyl 017
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.
Title | Featuring | Producing | Time | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
A1. | Poetry | 05:00 | |||
A2. | South Bronx | 05:08 | |||
A3. | 9mm Goes Bang | 04:17 | |||
A4. | Word From Our Sponsor | 03:53 | |||
A5. | Elementary | 04:03 | |||
B1. | Dope Beat | 05:12 | |||
B2. | Remix for P is Free | 04:20 | |||
B3. | The Bridge is Over | 03:25 | |||
B4. | Super-Hoe | 05:01 | |||
B5. | Criminal Minded | 05:18 |