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audio review : Sex And Violence ( album ) … Boogie Down Productions

Sex And Violence ( album ) ... Boogie Down Productions

Don’t be fooled by the title. KRS-One, The Teacha, is still all about Edutainment, but Edutainment doesn’t sell well. The record-buying masses want Sex And Violence, so he provides just that for this newest BDP set.

On Build And Destroy, he responds to the philosophical criticisms of what seems to be Brother J from X Clan by telling him he’ll get “fucked up”. 13 And Good is about sexing, thus statutory raping, a 13-year-old girl.

The album is raw and sloppy, almost amateurish, in comparison to the other Boogie Down productions; I would’ve also put the “rock-and-roll” bit at the beginning of the title song; but it’s still fresh… “for 1992, you suckas.”

my rating : 4 of 5

1992

audio review : 13 And Good ( song ) … KRS-One

I’m surprised to hear a song like this from KRS-One. It’s a story about him having sex with a girl who’s thirteen years old, which, as far as the law is concerned, makes him a rapist. That’s despite the fact that the girl never bothered to tell him her age until he asked. By then it was too late. They’d already done it and she’d already began to develop romantic feelings for him. “I want to be with you forever,” she tells him the next morning.

It’s a tricky predicament and a serious issue for people who go to parties looking for sex, but KRS-One handles it with misplaced satire by getting the girl’s Pops involved and ending the story with an outrageous twist. What her father does is possible but extremely unlikely under the circumstances. It’s a major turn-off on a song that was relatively believable until that point. The pointless “moral” epilogue makes it worse.

my rating : 3 of 5

1992

audio review : Sex And Violence ( album ) ... Boogie Down Productions

audio review : 7 Dee Jays ( song ) … KRS-One + Harmony + Heather B + Ms Melodie + Jamalski ( featuring D-Nice )

“It takes seven DJs to control a sound”, but it takes only six MCs to hold it down. This is perhaps the first and only true Boogie Down Productions song in the sense that it features vocals from every member. Then again, while the absence of Scott La Rock is excused; he died in 1987; Kenny Parker and D-Square, the latter of whom seems to have been in the studio during the recording process, are (also) represented via shoutout only.

An organized structure; equal chorus intervals and equal verse time; would make the song even better than it is. Though most of the lyrics were apparently composed in advance, it comes across as a freestyle rap session, especially when KRS-One and Jamalski do a reggae takeover near the end. The best part is the beat, which itself bounces about like a reggae groove. This song should’ve been officially included on the Edutainment album.

my rating : 4 of 5

1990