Sex and Violence (album)

Sex and Violence
Studio album by Boogie Down Productions
Released	February 25, 1992
Recorded	1991-92, Street Music Studio & Battery Studios, NYC
Genre	Hip hop, Hardcore Hip Hop,[1] East Coast Hip Hop [2]
Label	Jive/BMG Records 01241-41470
Producer	KRS-One, Pal Joey, Prince Paul, DJ Kenny Parker, D-Square
Boogie Down Productions chronology
Edutainment (1990) Sex and Violence (1992) Man & His Music (1997)

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Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]
Chicago Tribune	[4]
Robert Christgau	A−[5]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[6]
Los Angeles Times	[7]
RapReviews	(9/10)[8]
Rhapsody	(favorable)[9]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[10]
The Source	[11]
Trouser Press	(unfavorable)[12]

Sex and Violence is the final album released by hip hop group Boogie Down Productions. The next year, 1993, the group's lead member, KRS-One, would begin recording under his own name.

The track "Build And Destroy" deals with KRS-One's ideological differences—as a self-proclaimed humanist—with X Clan and its brand of Afrocentrism. Previously, and on numerous occasions, the X-Clan had denounced any association with the concept, instead affirming its pro-Black stance. This, according to KRS-One's younger brother and Boogie Down Production's DJ Kenny Parker, was an insinuation that KRS was a "sell-out."^[13] Both parties have since reconciled their differences and on X-Clan's Return from Mecca album.^[14]

KRS One has stated that the album has sold about 250,000 copies, half of what the previous BDP album (Edutainment) sold. KRS-One has stated that he believes this was due to an incident that year, in which BDP stormed the stage during a concert performance by alternative hip-hop duo PM Dawn, which was in retaliation for the latter's published comments that questioned KRS-One being a self-proclaimed "teacher".^[15]

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