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Wednesday, July 19

#80 RAP TAPES: Edutainment


I still love this tape, more than a lot of KRS shit, though all the little exhibit skits were signs of his immense preachiness that was soon to arrive. I've always wondered, much like Cliff Burton and Metallica, how much more grounded (or potentially just as fucked) Boogie Down Productions would've been had Scott La Rock not been killed. And I wonder too what's up with Scott La Rock Jr.? He should be old enough to DJ by now. Did KRS take care of him all those years? Lots of questions. This tape actually has bonus tracks for the tape version, including "7 Dee Jays" which might be one of my all-time favorite posse tracks ever, and it goes for like a 16 minutes, and is the only time I've enjoyed Heather B.

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