"Let's do the Boogie!"

Boogie Down Productions was a hip hop group originally comprised KRS-One, D-Nice, and DJ Scott La Rock. This group combined the fusion of dancehall raggae and hip hop music and their debut LP Criminal Minded contained frank descriptions of life in the South Bronx of the late 1980s thus setting the stage for what would eventually become gangsta rap. Conservative attitudes concerning hip-hop's irreverence for middle-class values such as evident in slang, clothing have impeded the process of critically analyzing an art form that has proved to be a considerable force for social change through campaigns. Boogie down's Production's "Stop the Violence" can be one of the examples. Hip hop through history has brought much needed dialogue to issue affecting America's Black community in a manner that no popular art form has, prompting the Public Enemy's Chuck D to refer to hip-hop as the "CNN" of the Black community.