Consumer Guide Album

Boogie Down Productions: Sex and Violence [Jive, 1992]
Brother Kris: "I think some of these journalists need to start getting punched in they face." Brother Kenny: "I got a big fist." Which just goes to show that you don't love KRS-One because you think he's right--you love him because he thinks he's right. Of course his ideas are dangerous--if they weren't, they'd be inconsequential. In words and music as tactless as a battering ram, he praises "humanism," names capitalism as the enemy, calls out fake Muslims, and, well, urges drug dealers to get into the education game. Definitive: "13 and Good," like "100 Guns" before it a morality-tale-sans-moral that makes me wonder whether he's studied Roger Abrahams's anthology of African folk tales or comes by the tone naturally--and yes, I'm sure I know what he thinks about that one. A−