criminal minded

• the juice crew ve boogie down productions savaşını alevleyen albüm. tek kelimeyle muhteşem!
• her dakikasıyla, her rhyme'ı ile tam bir bdp şaheseri. albüm biraz gangsta influenced olduğu için ilk gangster rap albümlerine örnek gösterilebilir ama krs one'ın süper ötesi educational rhyme'ları, dj scott la rock'ın muhteşem 808 ziyafeti ve funky beat'leri ile bu albüm hip hop kitabeleri arasında. şarkı dizesi:
  
  1. poetry
  2. south bronx
  3. 9mm goes bang
  4. word from our sponsor
  5. elementary
  6. dope beat
  7. remix for p is free
  8. the bridge is over
  9. super-hoe
  10. criminal minded
  11. scott la rock mega mix
• boogie down productions'dan cikmis bu single tum zamanlarin en iyi 100 hip-hop sarkisi siralamasinda bir numaradir. hem de oy cokluguyla.
• bdp'nin efsane sarkisinin sozleri ise:
  
  intro: (sung by krs-one to the tune of the beatles "let it be")
  
  boogie down productions will always get paid
  we'll take the wackest song and make it better
  remember to let us into your skin
  cause then you'll begin, to master
  rhymin rhymin rhymin
  
  verse one: krs-one
  
  criminal minded, you've been blinded
  lookin for a style like mine you can't find it
  they are the audience, i am the lyricist
  sometimes the suckas on the side gotta hear this
  page, a rage, and i'm not in a cage
  free as a bird to fly up out on stage
  ain't here for no frontin just to say a little somethin
  ya suckaz don't like me cause you're all about nothin
  however, i'm really fascinating to the letter
  my all-around performance gets better and better
  my english grammar comes down like a hammer
  you need a style, i need to pull your file
  i don't beg favors, you're kissing other people's ---
  i write and produce myself just as fast
  keep my hair like this, got no time for jheri curls
  attractin only women, got no time for little girls
  
  [krs sings again] cause girls look so good
  but their brain is not ready, i don't know
  i'd rather talk to a woman
  cause her mind is so steady, so here we go
  
  i'm not a musical maniac or b-boy fanatic
  i simply made use of what was upstairs in the attic
  i've listened to these mc's back when i was a kid
  but i bust more shots than they ever did
  i mean this is not the best of krs, it's just a section
  but how many times must i point you in the right direction
  you need protection, when i'm on the mic
  because my mouth is like a 9 millimeter windpipe
  you're a king, i'm a teacher
  you're a b-boy, i'm a scholar
  if this was a class, well it would go right under drama
  see kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent
  talkin big words on the mic but still irrelevant
  especially when you're not, college material
  wake up every morning to your lucky charms cereal
  dj scott larock has a college degree
  blastmaster krs writes poetry
  i won't go deeper in the subject cause that gets me bored
  it's a shame to know some mc's on the mic are fraud
  sayin styles like this to create a diss
  but if you listen, who you dissin?
  see i am a musician
  rappin on the mic like this to me is fine
  cause if i really want to battle i will put out a nine
  you can see that scott larock and i are mentally binded
  in other words we're both criminal minded
  
  verse two: krs-one
  
  we're not promoting violence, we're just havin some fun
  he's scott larock, i'm krs-one
  never off-beat cause it don't make sense
  grab the microphone, relaxed and not tense
  you waited, debated, and now you activated
  a musical genius that could not be duplicated
  see i have the formula for rockin the house
  if you cannot rock a party do not open your mouth
  it's that simple, no phony cosmetics to your pimple
  take another look because the gear is not wrinkled
  the k, the r, the s, the o, the n, the e
  sayin rhyme for eighty-seven not from 1983
  well versed, to rehearse, and my rhymes are my curse
  originality come first but the suckers get worse
  allow me to include i have a very stable mood
  poetic education of a high altitude
  i'm not an mc, so listen, call me poet or musician
  a genius when it comes to making music with ambition
  i'm cool, collected with the rhyme i directed
  don't wanna be elected as the king of a record
  just respected by others as the man with the solution
  an artist of the 80's came and left his contribution
  on wax, relax, there's 24 tracks
  after years of rocking parties now i picked up the knack
  because everything that flows from out my larynx
  takes years of experience and bottles of beck's
  i cannot seem to recollect the time i didn't have sex
  is it real or is it memorex?
  i'm livin in a city known as new york state
  sucka mc's gotta wait while i translate
  i hang with real live dreads with knowledge in their heads
  people with ambition and straight up musicians
  although our lives have been so uprooted
  i have it included, you all get zooted
  so take each letter of the krs-one
  means knowledge reigns supreme over nearly everyone
  you look at me and laugh, but this is your class
  it's an all-out discussion of the suckas i be crushin
  so now you are awakened to the music i be makin
  never duplicated, and also highly cultivated
  don't get frustrated cause nothin has been traded
  only activated, it came out very complicated
  not separated, from my dj
  you see my voice is now faded
  i'll see you folks around the way
  
  criminal minded...