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Boogie Down Productions

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Boogie Down Productions was a hip hop group, originally composed of KRS-One, D-Nice, and DJ Scott La Rock. [1]

47 relations: B-Boy Records, Biz Markie, Black Star (rap duo), Blaq Poet, By All Means Necessary, Chuck D, Criminal Minded, D-Nice, Dancehall, Dead Prez, Doug E. Fresh, Edutainment (album), Flavor Flav, Gangsta rap, Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop, Heather B. Gardner, Heavy D, Hip hop music, Jive Records, Juice Crew, Jungle Brothers, Just-Ice, Kool DJ Red Alert, Kool Moe Dee, KRS-One, Malcolm X, Marley Marl, MC Lyte, MC Shan, Ms. Melodie, National Urban League, New York (state), New York City, Public Enemy (band), Queensbridge Houses, RCA Records, Riddim, Roxanne Shante, Scott La Rock, Sex and Violence (album), South Bronx, Stetsasonic, Stop the Violence Movement, The Bronx, Ultramagnetic MCs, Wise (rapper), Yellowman.

B-Boy Records

B-Boy Records was an important independent hip hop record label formed by Jack Allen and William Kamarra in 1986, and situated at 132nd Street and Cypress Avenue in the Bronx, New York City.

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Biz Markie

Marcel Theo Hall (born April 8, 1964), better known by his stage name Biz Markie, is an American rapper, beatboxer, DJ, actor, comedian, reality television personality and commercial spokesperson.

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Black Star (rap duo)

Black Star is an American hip hop duo formed in 1997, from Brooklyn, New York City, New York.

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Blaq Poet

Wilbur Bass (born May 31, 1969), better known as Blaq Poet is an American rapper from Queensbridge, New York, United States.

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By All Means Necessary

By All Means Necessary is the second album from American hip hop group Boogie Down Productions, released on May 31, 1988 on Jive Records.

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Chuck D

Carlton Douglas Ridenhour (born August 1, 1960), known professionally as Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer.

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Criminal Minded

Criminal Minded is the debut studio album by hip hop music group Boogie Down Productions, released on March 3, 1987 by B-Boy Records.

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D-Nice

Derrick Jones (born June 19, 1970), better known by his stage name D-Nice, is an American disc jockey, beatboxer, rapper, producer and photographer who began his career in the mid-1980s with the hip hop group Boogie Down Productions.

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Dancehall

Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s.

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Dead Prez

Dead Prez, stylized as dead prez, is a hip hop duo from the United States, composed of stic.man and M-1, formed in 1996 in New York City.

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Doug E. Fresh

Doug E. Fresh (born September 17, 1966) is a Barbadian-American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer, also known as the Human Beat Box And the pioneer of 20th-century American beatboxing, Fresh is able to accurately imitate drum machines and various special effects using only his mouth, lips, gums, throat, tongue and a microphone.

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Edutainment (album)

Edutainment is the fourth album from Boogie Down Productions.

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Flavor Flav

William Jonathan Drayton Jr. (born March 16, 1959), better known by his stage name Flavor Flav, is an American musician, rapper, actor, television personality, and comedian who rose to prominence as a member of the hip-hop group Public Enemy.

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Gangsta rap

Gangsta rap or Gangster rap is a style of hip hop characterized by themes and lyrics that generally emphasize the "gangsta" lifestyle.

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Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop

Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop is the third album from Boogie Down Productions.

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Heather B. Gardner

Heather B. Gardner (born November 13, 1971), billed professionally as Heather B., is an American hip hop artist who first gained fame as a member of the hip hop group Boogie Down Productions before becoming a cast member on The Real World: New York, the first season of MTV's reality show The Real World.

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Heavy D

Dwight Errington MyersCuda, Heidi Sigmund Keeping it reel.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Jive Records

Jive Records was an American record label under the RCA Music Group formed in 1981 by Zomba Records. Formerly headquartered in New York City, the label was best known for a string of successes with hip hop artists in the 1980s, and also in teen pop and boy bands during the 1990s and early 2000s. Jive Records operated as an independently managed label until 2003, when Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) acquired the remainder of its parent company Zomba for US $2.74 billion, which at the time was the largest-ever acquisition of an independent label with major-label distribution.

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Juice Crew

The Juice Crew was a Hip Hop collective made up largely of Queensbridge (New York, US)–based artists in the mid–to–late 1980s.

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Jungle Brothers

Jungle Brothers are an American hip hop group composed of Michael Small (Mike Gee), Nathaniel Hall (Afrika Baby Bam), and Sammy Burwell (DJ Sammy B).

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Just-Ice

Joseph Williams Jr. (born June 22, 1965), better known by the stage name Just-Ice, is an American rapper from New York City.

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Kool DJ Red Alert

Kool DJ Red Alert (born Frederick Crute on November 27, 1956) is an American disc jockey who rose to fame on 98.7 Kiss-FM in New York City, and is recognized as one of the founding fathers of hip hop music and culture.

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Kool Moe Dee

Mohandas Dewese (born August 8, 1962), better known by his stage name Kool Moe Dee, is an American hip hop MC prominent in the late 1970s through the early 1990s.

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KRS-One

Lawrence "Kris" Parker (born August 20, 1965), better known by his stage names KRS-One, and Teacha, is an American rapper and occasional producer from The Bronx, New York City, New York.

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Malcolm X

Malcolm X (19251965) was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist.

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Marley Marl

Marlon Williams (born September 30, 1962), better known by his stage name Marley Marl, is an American DJ, record producer, rapper and record label founder, primarily operating in hip hop music.

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MC Lyte

MC Lyte (born Lana Michelle Moorer; October 11, 1970) is an American rapper who first gained fame in the late 1980s, becoming the first solo female rapper to release a full album with 1988's critically acclaimed Lyte as a Rock.

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MC Shan

Shawn Moltke (born September 6, 1965) better known by his stage name MC Shan, is an American hip hop and R&B recording artist.

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Ms. Melodie

Ms.

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National Urban League

The National Urban League (NUL), formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is a nonpartisan civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Public Enemy (band)

Public Enemy is an American hip hop group consisting of Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff, Khari Wynn, DJ Lord, and the S1W group.

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Queensbridge Houses

Queensbridge is the largest public housing development in North America.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Riddim

Riddim is the Jamaican Patois pronunciation of the English word "rhythm".

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Roxanne Shante

Roxanne Shante (born Lolita Shanté Gooden; November 9, 1969) is an American hip hop musician and rapper.

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Scott La Rock

Scott Monroe Sterling (March 2, 1962 – August 27, 1987), known by the stage name DJ Scott La Rock, was an American hip hop disc jockey (DJ) and music producer from the Bronx borough of New York City.

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Sex and Violence (album)

Sex and Violence is the fifth and final album released by hip hop group Boogie Down Productions.

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South Bronx

The South Bronx is an area of the New York City borough of the Bronx.

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Stetsasonic

Stetsasonic was an American hip hop group formed in 1981 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York.

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Stop the Violence Movement

The Stop the Violence Movement was formed by rapper KRS-One in 1987 in response to violence in the hip hop and African American communities.

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The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.

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Ultramagnetic MCs

The Ultramagnetic MCs is an American hip hop group based in Bronx, New York.

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Wise (rapper)

, better known by his stage name Wise, is a Japanese hip hop recording artist who raps in both Japanese and English.

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Yellowman

Yellowman (born Winston Foster) is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay, also known as King Yellowman.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogie_Down_Productions

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