Boogie Down Productions: Пионеры хип-хопа из Южного Бронкса

American hip hop group

Boogie Down Productions (BDP) was an American hip hop group originally composed of KRS One, D Nice, and DJ Scott La Rock. DJ Scott La Rock was murdered on August 27, 1987, five months after the release of BDP's debut album, Criminal Minded. The name of the group, Boogie Down, derives from a nickname for the South Bronx section of New York City. The group pioneered the fusion of dancehall reggae and hip hop music and their debut LP Criminal Minded contained frank descriptions of life in the South Bronx during the late 1980s, thus setting the stage for what would eventually become gangsta rap.

BDP's membership changed throughout its existence, the only constant being KRS One. The group was founded by KRS One and DJ Scott La Rock, with producer Lee Smith, who was essential in the production of the songs on Criminal Minded, being added as a member shortly after.

A conflict arose in the late 1980s concerning the origins of hip hop, and BDP made conscious efforts in its early work to establish its interpretation of the issue. The origins of hip hop to many, including BDP, are believed to be from the Bronx. A rival hip hop collective, known as the Juice Crew's lyrics, were misunderstood to contain a claim in the song "The Bridge" that hip hop was directly a result of artists originating from Queensbridge. Boogie Down and KRS retorted angrily with songs such as "The Bridge is Over" and "South Bronx," which started one of the first notable hip hop wars as MC Shan, Marley Marl, Roxanne Shanté and Blaq Poet all released songs featuring verses personally attacking KRS and Scott La Rock. But the Bridge Wars were short lived, and after Scott La Rock's death, KRS began to concentrate on socially conscious music. While Criminal Minded contained vivid descriptions of South Bronx street life, BDP changed after Scott's death. and it was later resampled by artists such as Black Star and dead prez. As an album regarded by many as the start of the gangsta rap movement,

From its start, BDP affected the development of hip hop and gave a sincere voice to the reality of life in the South Bronx, a section of New York City clouded with poverty and crime. With Criminal Minded, the group combined the sounds of LaRock's harsh, spare, reggae influenced beats and KRS One's long winded rhyme style on underground classics such as "9mm Goes Bang" and "South Bronx," the album's gritty portrait of life on the streets (as well as the firearms that adorned its cover) influenced the gangsta rap movement that began in earnest two years later. BDP's influence in the creation and development of gangsta rap highlights the cultural significance and impact of the type of music BDP and other early hip hop artists like it created. This subgenre of hip hop is most closely associated with hard core hip hop and is widely misinterpreted as promoting violence and gang activity. This misinterpretation or stigma is closely related to Boogie Down Productions and the general purpose behind their underlying themes of violence. For instance, the cover art of Criminal Minded displays the two artists in the group brandishing drawn guns and displaying other firearms. KRS One published four more albums under the title Boogie Down Productions, and each was increasingly innovative and expanded from the thuggish imagery of Criminal Minded, exploring themes like black on black crime and black radicalism, using a riff on the words of Malcolm X, "by any means necessary", which became the title of the second BDP album, and remains one of the most political hip hop albums to date. All proceeds from this effort went to the National Urban League.