PRESSED ON PURPLE SWIRL-COLORED VINYL PACKAGED IN A GATEFOLD JACKET WITH A FULL LYRICS
DESCRIPTION
In the early 1990s gangsta rap was becoming more popular. KRS-One took to the mic and continued to write socially conscious raps resulting in the hard-hitting 1992 album Sex and Violence which would be the fifth and final studio album under the Boogie Down Productions name. Produced by KRS-One, Pal Joey, Kenny Parker, D-Square, and Prince Paul, the album explores the darkest sides of the American urban landscape and psyche, with KRS as narrator, detailing all sides of the matrix. While singles like the alarming drum-driven "Duck Down" and the funky-as-hell "We In There" got most of the attention in 92, the deeper sequence reveals plenty of additional gems: the history lesson of the dark and dusty "Drug Dealer"; "Ruff Ruff", with scowling MC favorite Freddie Foxxx (aka Bumpy Knuckles); the grooving "Questions and Answers," and the frantic record industry track "How Not To Get Jerked."
The album kicks off with an intro skit featuring KRS-One as a DJ in panic needing vinyl which at the time was a dying format while cassettes and CDs became the dominant format. Thirty-two years later vinyl DJs and Hip-Hop vinyl collectors no longer need to panic. Get On Down in partnership with Sony Music's CERTIFIED is proud to bring back to vinyl this underrated gem in the BDP catalog. Featuring one of the dopest album covers by American artist Robert Williams, Sex and Violence is pressed on splatter-colored vinyl, packaged in a gatefold jacket with full lyrics and a numbered OBI limited to 500 copies.
TRACKLIST
A1 The Original Way Featuring – Freddie Foxxx
A2 Duck Down
A3 Drug Dealer
A4 Like A Throttle
B1 Build And Destroy
B2 Ruff Ruff Featuring – Freddie Foxxx
B3 13 And Good
B4 Poisonous Products
C1 Questions And Answers
C2 Say Gal
C3 We In There
C4 Sex And Violence
D1 How Not To Get Jerked
D2 Who Are The Pimps?
D3 The Real Holy Place
D4 13 And Good (Remix)