Release Date: 8/9/24 (Ships this week)

 

-Double purple swirl vinyl

-Gatefold jacket

-Full lyrics

 

In the early 1990s gangsta rap was becoming more popular. KRS-One took to the mic and continued to write
socially conscious raps resulting in the hard-hitting 1992 album Sex And Violence which would be the fifth and
final studio album under the Boogie Down Productions name. Produced by KRS-One, Pal Joey, Kenny Parker,
D-Square, and Prince Paul, the album explores the darkest sides of the American urban landscape and psyche,
with KRS as narrator, detailing all sides of the matrix. While singles like the alarming drum-driven "Duck Down"
and the funky-as-hell "We In There" got most of the attention in ‘92, the deeper sequence reveals plenty of
additional gems: the history lesson of the dark and dusty "Drug Dealer"; "Ruff Ruff", with scowling MC favorite
Freddie Foxxx (aka Bumpy Knuckles); the grooving "Questions and Answers," and the frantic record industry
track "How Not To Get Jerked."

The album kicks off with an intro skit featuring KRS-One as a DJ in panic needing vinyl which at the time was a
dying format while cassettes and CDs became the dominant format. Thirty-two years later vinyl DJs and Hip-Hop
vinyl collectors no longer need to panic. Get On Down in partnership with Sony Music's CERTIFIED is proud to
bring back to vinyl this underrated gem in the BDP catalog. Featuring one of the dopest album covers by
American artist Robert Williams, Sex and Violence is pressed on colored vinyl and
packaged in a gatefold jacket with full lyrics.

 

Tracklisting

The Original Way (feat. Freddie Foxxx)

Duck Down

Drug Dealer

Like A Throttle
Build And Destroy

Ruff Ruff (feat. Freddie Foxxx)

13 And Good

Poisonous Products
Questions And Answers

Say Gal

We In There

Sex And Violence
How Not To Get Jerked

Who Are The Pimps?

The Real Holy Place
13 And Good (Remix)