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By All Means Necessary is the second album from American hip hop group Boogie Down Productions, released on May 31, 1988 on Jive Records.
After the 1987 murder of DJ-producer Scott La Rock, MC KRS-One moved away from the violent themes that dominated his debut, Criminal Minded, and began writing socially conscious songs using the moniker the Teacher.
Singles from By All Means Necessary
"Stop the Violence"
Released: 1988
"My Philosophy"
Released: 1988
Many themes, which surface a minimalist production accompanied by hard-hitting drum beats, cover social issues that include government and police corruption, safe s*x, government involvement in the drug trade, and violence in the hip hop community.
As of September 25, 1989, the album was certified gold in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America. Both the album cover, depicting KRS-One, and the album title make reference to Malcolm X.
The album's cover art is a reference to the iconic photo of Malcolm X peering through his window while holding a M1 carbine rifle. The album title is a modification of Malcolm X's famous phrase "By Any Means Necessary."
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 5/5 stars
Encyclopedia of Popular Music 4/5 stars
The Great Rock Discography 7/10
MusicHound R&B 4.5/5
RapReviews 9.5/10
Rolling Stone 3/5 stars
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 4.5/5 stars
The Source 5/5
Spin Alternative Record Guide 8/10
The Village Voice B+
The album is widely seen as one of, if not the first, politically conscious efforts in hip-hop. AllMusic described the album as a landmark of political hip hop and Rolling Stone praised its social commentary.
Anthony DeCurtis of Rolling Stone wrote, "Over irresistible beats provided by his BDP cohorts, KRS delivers the word on the drug trade, AIDS and violenceโthree forces that threaten to destroy minority communities."
In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums.
In 2008, the single "My Philosophy" was ranked number 49 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.
Today in Hip-Hop History:
American Hip-Hop group De La Soul released, "De La Soul Is Dead".
De La Soul Is Dead is De La Soul's second full-length album, which was released May 14, 1991. Produced by Prince Paul, whose work on 3 Feet High and Rising was highly praised by music critics.
The album was one of the first to receive a five-mike rating in the Hip hop magazine The Source. The album was also selected as one of The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums in 1998.
The album's cover refers to the death of the "D.A.I.S.Y." (Da Inner Sound, Y'all) age, or a distancing from several cultures including hippies and the mainstream hip-hop. It is considered among many as one of the best albums of the 1990s. Rolling Stone ranked the album at #87 on their list, and Pitchfork Media ranked it at #63.
"Player's Ball" is the debut single from hip hop duo Outkast.
Originally released two weeks prior on the compilation A LaFace Family Christmas, the single was released on November 19, 1993, to promote the forthcoming debut album, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik.
The song itself discusses the nature of living in the South of the United States, and growing up within a hip hop culture.
The accompanying music video was directed by Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs.
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Today in Hip-Hop History:
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzic the debut album of American hip hop duo OutKast, was released on April 26, 1994, by LaFace Records.
After befriending each other in 1992, rappers Andrรฉ 3000 and Big Boi pursued recording music as a duo and worked with production team Organized Noize, which led to their signing to LaFace.
The album was produced by the team and recorded at the Dungeon, D.A.R.P. Studios, Purple Dragon, Bosstown, and Doppler Studios in Atlanta.
A Southern hip hop album, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik features live instrumentation in its hip hop production and musical elements from funk and soul genres.
Wanting to make a statement about urban life as an African American in the South, OutKast wrote and recorded the album as teenagers and addressed coming of age topics with the album's songs. They also incorporated repetitive hooks and Southern slang in their lyrics.
The album peaked at number 20 on the Billboard 200, on which it charted for 26 weeks, and was eventually certified platinum in the United States. It was promoted with three singles, including "Player's Ball", which helped create buzz for the album. Upon its release, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik received positive reviews from music critics and helped distinguish Southern hip hop as a credible hip hop scene, amid East Coast and West Coast hip hop's market dominance. The album has since been viewed by writers as an important release in both hip hop and Atlanta's music scene.
Organized Noize incorporated the Roland TR-808 in the album's production. After receiving a $15,000 advance from LaFace in 1993, OutKast started recording the album at the Dungeon. The studio featured mostly secondhand recording equipment. Recording sessions also took place at Bosstown, Dallas Austin's D.A.R.P. Studios,[11] Doppler Studios, and Purple Dragon in Atlanta.[12] Located in midtown Atlanta, Bosstown developed a sentimental value for OutKast, who later bought the studio in 1999 and renamed it "Stankonia" after their fourth studio album.[11] Throughout the album's recording, the duo refined their artistry and drew on ideas from funk, contemporary R&B, and soul music. Andrรฉ 3000 also smoked ma*****na during the sessions. They recorded over 30 songs for the album.
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik was produced entirely by Organized Noize, which was made up of Rico Wade, Ray Murray, and Sleepy Brown. Production team Organized Noize utilized live instrumentation on the album, emphasizing musical instruments, including bass, keyboards, guitar, and organ, over conventional hip hop techniques such as DJing and sampling. They viewed that the feel of live instruments made the music sound more authentic and immediate. With their production, the team sought an organic, celebratory, "down-home" vibe, as Brown later recalled, "We wanted Atlanta brothers to be proud of where they were from". Brown also sung vocals for several tracks.
Along with Organized Noize, other members of the Dungeon Family worked on the album, including Goodie Mob, Mr. DJ, Debra Killings, and Society of Soul. The album was mixed at Sound on Sound in New York City, Bosstown, D.A.R.P. Studios, Tree Sound, and Studio LaCoCo in Atlanta.
Today in Hip-Hop History Spice 1 dropped his sophomore album on April 14, 1992
Robert Lee Greene, Jr. (born July 2, 1970), better known by his stage name Spice 1 (an acronym for "S*x, Pistols, Indo, Cash and Entertainment"), is an American rapper from Hayward, California.
He began his rap career in 1991, gaining popularity as a pioneer of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area hip-hop scene.
In 1991, he released his first EP, Let It Be Known. In 1992, he released Spice 1, and in 1993 released 187 He Wrote.
Spice 1 released six albums under Jive Records along with one greatest hits album. Three of them, Spice 1, 187 He Wrote and AmeriKKKa's Nightmare, were certified gold.
(This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification.)
33rd anniversary of Fear of a Black Planet
Fear of a Black Planet is the third studio album by American hip hop group Public Enemy.
It was released on April 10, 1990, by Def Jam Recordings and Columbia Records, and produced by the group's production team The Bomb Squad, who expanded on the sample-layered sound of Public Enemy's 1988 album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.
Having fulfilled their initial creative ambitions with that album, the group aspired to create what lead rapper Chuck D called "a deep, complex album". Their songwriting was partly inspired by the controversy surrounding member Professor Griff and his dismissal from the group in 1989.
Fear of a Black Planet features elaborate sound collages that incorporate varying rhythms, numerous samples, media sound bites, and eccentric loops, reflecting the songs' confrontational tone.
Recorded during the golden age of hip hop, its assemblage of reconfigured and recontextualized aural sources preceded the sample clearance system that later emerged in the music industry.
Fear of a Black Planet explores themes of organization and empowerment within the black community, social issues affecting African Americans, and race relations at the time. The record's criticism of institutional racism, white supremacy, and the power elite was partly inspired by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing's views on color.
A commercial and critical hit, Fear of a Black Planet sold two million copies in the United States and received rave reviews from critics, many of whom named it one of the year's best albums. Its success contributed significantly to the popularity of Afrocentric and political subject matter in hip hop and the genre's mainstream resurgence at the time. Since then, it has been viewed as one of hip hop's greatest and most important records, as well as being musically and culturally significant.
In 2004, the Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry. In 2020, Fear of a Black Planet was ranked number 176 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Today In Hip-Hop History
American hip hop group Onyx, released Bacdafucup, their debut album on March 30, 1993.
Released via JMJ Records, Rush Associated Labels and Chaos Recordings. The album was produced by Chyskillz, Jam Master Jay and Kool Tee.
Singles from Bacdafucup
"Throw Ya Gunz"
Released: November 27, 1992
"Slam"
Released: May 11, 1993
"Shifftee"
Released: August 30, 1993
"Da Nex Niguz"
Released: November 14, 1993
Bacdafucup peaked at number 17 on the US Billboard 200, and number 8 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart.
The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA on October 25, 1993. In 1994, the album was nominated as "Rap/Hip-Hop New Artist" on American Music Awards of 1994 and won "Best Rap Album" on 1994 Soul Train Music Awards.
The album features three of the Billboard singles "Throw Ya Gunz", "Slam" and "Shifftee". The first single, "Throw Ya Gunz", became a crossover radio hit.
Their breakout single, "Slam", which received heavy airplay on both radio and television (MTV and BET), leading the song to reach #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, and get Platinum on August 10, 1993.
In remembrance of Eazy-E
(07/09/1964 - 26/03/1995)
Provocative gangsta rap figure -- Founding N.W.A member, Ruthless Records co-founder -- whose 1988 solo album went double platinum.
Years Active: 1980s - 1990s
Born: September 7, 1964 in Compton, CA
Died: March 26, 1995 in Los Angeles, CA
Today In Hip-Hop History
Yo! Bum Rush the Show
Yo! Bum Rush the Show is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Public Enemy, released on February 10, 1987. It was recorded at Spectrum City Studios in Hempstead, New York, and became one of the fastest-selling hip hop records, but was controversial among radio stations and critics, in part due to lead rapper Chuck D's black nationalist politics. The album has since been regarded as one of hip hop's greatest and most influential records.
Musical style
Yo! Bum Rush the Show debuts The Bomb Squad's sample-heavy production style, which is prominent on the group's later work.
Joe Brown of The Washington Post described the album's music as "a more serious brand of inner-city aggression". On its musical style, Brown wrote "Public Enemy's mean and minimalist rap is marked by an absolute absence of melody โ the scary sound is just a throbbing pulse, hard drums and a designed-to-irritate electronic whine, like a dentist's drill or a persistent mosquito". The album's sound is accented by the scratching of DJ Terminator X.
Chicago Tribune writer Daniel Brogan described Public Enemy's style on the album as "raw and confrontational", writing that the group "doesn't aim to โ or have a chance at โ crossing over".
Title and packaging
According to music journalist Jeff Chang, Public Enemy embodied the "bumrush aesthetic" of underground black radicalism and used their debut album's cover to illustrate a resurgence in the spirit of militancy. The cover features the group in a poorly lit basement, "readying themselves to bring black militancy back into the high noon of the Reagan day", as Chang described and compared to the 1987 Boogie Down Productions album Criminal Minded that followed. Chuck D is shown dressed in white Islamic clothing, Professor Griff is on the far right wearing a red beret, and Flavor Flav has his hand reaching out over a turntable, which Chang interpreted as him blessing the vinyl record. A second black hand is shown reaching at the play button to "begin the revolution", in Chang's words. A line of repeated text is printed at the bottom of the photo, described by Chang as a punchline, and reading: "THE GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSIBLE . . . THE GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSIBLE . . . THE GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSIBLE . . ." The cover marked the first appearance of Public Enemy's logo, a silhouette of a black man in a rifle's crosshairs.
Release and promotion
Yo! Bum Rush the Show was released on February 10, 1987, by Def Jam Recordings and Columbia Records. It was promoted with the release of two singles that year: "Public Enemy No. 1" in March and "You're Gonna Get Yours" in May.
The album was largely ignored by radio programmers, including most African-American radio stations. On record charts, it reached the 125th position of the Billboard Top LPs and number 28 on the Top Black Albums in the United States.
Jon Pareles reported in May 1987, however, that it had become one of hip hop's fastest selling records. By the following year, it had sold more than 300,000 copies in the US, and 400,000 by 1989. On October 3, 1994, the album was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, indicating 500,000 units moved.
In a review published in The Village Voice under the title "Noise Annoys", John Leland avoided the group's politics entirely and simply found Chuck D boring, instead preferring the more entertaining rhymes of Flavor Flav. Fellow Village Voice critic Robert Christgau said the group has "literary chopsโamid puns more Elvis Costello than Peter Tosh, their 'Megablast' is cutting anticrack narrative-propaganda--and they make something personal of rap's ranking minimalist groove." He found them lacking in levity, however, and complained that "Chuck D takes the bully-boy orotundity of his school of rap elocution into a realm of vocal self-involvement worthy of Pavarotti, Steve Perry, or the preacher at a Richard Pryor funeral." Pareles was more enthusiastic in The New York Times, hailing Yo! Bum Rush the Show as rap's "grittiest" full-length record. While still finding Public Enemy plagued by the "adolescent macho" he deemed prevalent in the genre, he said its songs are "far more convincing - and unsettling - when [Chuck] D takes on money and power", and concluded: "At a time when most rappers typecast themselves as comedy acts or party bands, Public Enemy's best moments promise something far more dangerous and subversive: realism."
According to Chang, the album fared better among critics in the United Kingdom, where music publications ranked it as one of the year's best records. In NME magazine's critics poll, it was named the best album of 1987. The single "You're Gonna Get Yours" was also listed at number 25 on their list of Top 50 tracks of the year. It was also voted the 14th best album of the year in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of American critics nationwide.
In subsequent years, Yo! Bum Rush the Show has been considered a classic and one of hip hop's most influential records.[30] In 1998, it was selected as one of The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums. In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked it number 497 on a list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, although the album was removed in the 2012 version of the list.
Today In Hip-Hop History
Blunted on Reality is the debut studio album released by the American hip-hop group Fugees. The album was released on February 1, 1994 through the Ruffhouse Records label. Three singles were released from the album, including โBoof Bafโ, โNappy Headsโ and โVocabโ.
Blunted on Reality received generally favorable reviews from music critics. In the United Kingdom the album has been certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry. It was followed up with the critically acclaimed second and final album, The Score in 1996.
Background
Blunted on Reality was written and subsequently recorded by the group in 1992. However, following a long dispute with their record label, the album was not released until February 1, 1994.
Most versions of the album contain eighteen tracks, with the addition of a remix of "Nappy Heads". Prior to the release of the album, "Boof Baf" was released as the album's lead single. Commercially, the single was unsuccessful, The album's highest-charting single is "Nappy Heads", which peaked at number 49 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Vocab" was released as the album's third and final single. However, the song was not successful on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The album was recorded at the House of Music Studios in West Orange, New Jersey.
The Fugees have subsequently said that they allowed the producers to have too much control over the album's content and form.
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Today in Hip-Hop History US super group Public Enemy released APOCALYPSE 91... THE ENEMY STRIKES BLACK
Released October 1, 1991: Apocalypse 91โฆ The Enemy Strikes Black is the fourth studio album by American hip hop group Public Enemy, released by Def Jam Recordings and Columbia Records and produced by Gary G-Wiz The Bomb Squad (exec.), The Imperial Grand Ministers of Funk.
Apocalypse 91โฆ The Enemy Strikes Black contains the hit singles:
"Bring the Noise"
Released: June 4, 1991
"Can't Truss It"
Released: September 24, 1991
"Shut 'Em Down"
Released: January 3, 1992
"Nighttrain"
Released: March 3, 1992
Critical reception and Professional ratings:
The album received critical acclaim, ranking at No. 2 in The Village Voice's 1991 Pazz & Jop critics' poll.
AllMusic 5/5 stars
Chicago Tribune 3/4 stars
Entertainment Weekly A+
Los Angeles Times 3.5/4 stars
NME 7/10
Q 4/5 stars
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 4.5/5 stars
The Source 4/5[18]
The Village Voice A
"Apocalypse '91 is great rather than classic because you can't make four classic albums in a rowโฆ" observed the hip-hop fanzine Louder Than A Bomb!. "PE are still the best band in America and they've once again made the best album of the year."
Apocalypse 91 was ranked at No. 2 in The Village Voice's 1991 Pazz & Jop critics' poll, behind Nirvana's Nevermind, while editors of Spin ranked it 7th in their list of 20 Best Albums of the Year.
Retrospectively, AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine cites the album as one of the great records of golden age hip hop. The record was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
US rapper Coolio dead at 59
Coolio, whose real name is Artis Leon Ivey Jr., came up on the L.A. rap scene in the late 80s, but blew up internationally in 1995 when he released "Gangsta's Paradise" for the soundtrack of the Michelle Pfeiffer film, "Dangerous Minds."
He died on Wednesday in Los Angeles
As reported by TMZ - ... paramedics were called to a house in Los Angeles around 4 PM for a medical emergency and when they got there they pronounced Coolio dead.
Police have opened a death investigation but as of right now there does not appear to be signs of foul play. However, the coroner will make a final determination following an autopsy.
The rapper who achieved enormous success in the 90s was visiting a friend late Wednesday afternoon when he passed away.
Coolio's longtime manager, Jarez, says Coolio went to the bathroom at his friend's house, but when he didn't come out after a while ... the friend kept calling for him, and eventually went in and found Coolio laying on the floor.
We're told the friend called EMTs, who arrived and pronounced Coolio dead on the scene -- and Jarez tells us the paramedics suspect he suffered cardiac arrest.
An official cause of death has not been determined.
R.I.P Coolioโ
On August 11, 1973, at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, New York. Hip Hop was born. (Official Cultural Birth Date)
Today, we celebrate the 49th anniversary of that very moment.
We celebrate the pioneers, all contributors, and practitioners.
Living by the principle's of Peace, Love, Unity, Knowledge of self and Having Fun responsibly.
Happy Birthday
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