Old School 87 – BDP “South Bronx”

G-Unit, The Game, Lil Jon, Lil Dik-Dik, blah blah. I don’t know, I guess I’m getting old, but give me the pioneers of hip hop any day over those thugs. Today I take you back to the old school to join KRS-One and Scott LaRock in the South Bronx, the South South Bronx.

Boogie Down Productions released ‘Criminal Minded’ in 1987, a great year for the rap pioneers: Eric B. and Rakim’s ‘Paid in Full’ and Public Enemy’s debut, ‘Yo! Bum Rush the Show’ hit the streets (including the mean streets of Wind Point on the outskirts of Racine, Wisconsin, byotch). I was rollin’ in my mom’s Buick Park Avenue back in those days, 17 years of hard living coursing through my veins…

Boogie Down Productions: South Bronx
From ‘Criminal Minded.

Photo credit: From Wikipedia.