TODAY IN HIP HOP HISTORY: BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS RELEASED THEIR SECOND LP 'BY ALL MEANS NECESSARY'

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 MAY 31, 2023




On this day in 1988, Boogie Down Productions dropped one of the best and most influential albums of all time. It was widely seen as one of, if not the first, politically conscious efforts in Hip Hop.




KRS-One was initially popular for fueling the Juice Crew vs. BDP beef on wax and expanding intellectual Hip Hop music through 1987, with the release of Criminal Minded. However, when BDP's DJ Scott La Rock was shot and killed in the South Bronx, it profoundly affected the Brooklyn native, which resulted in a drastic rethinking of his on-record persona.... Read more


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