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Live Hardcore Worldwide

All rise for the massive BDP crew. Boogie Down Productions' fifth album, Live Hardcore Worldwide, is far from a mere tour curio. It's a chance to hear BDP's leader, rapper KRS-One, a.k.a. Kris Parker, strike a balance between the obvious physical appeal of hip-hop and its more literary purpose of...

1991 RS: 4of 5 Stars

Edutainment

1990

Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip Hop

1989

By All Means Necessary

1988

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Biography

A pioneering Bronx-based hip-hop group with a socially conscious message, Boogie Down Productions (BDP) is the hip-hop vehicle of rapper Kris "KRS-One" Parker. Parker originally formed the group with DJ Scott LaRock who was gunned down in 1987 while trying to break up a street fight and help spark KRS-One's ambitious antiviolence crusade. But it was BDP's Productions' blend of hip-hop with reggae...

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