Boogie Down Productions Video Music Box interview (1989)

[@majestic631]

If you're from NYC and grew up in the mid 80s and 90s, Video Music Box was the show to watch after school.

[@bluemantom77]

Oh hell yeah

[@njjjjjjjjhhhs]

kenny parker has his own channel now youtube

[@Ian-xw1ge]

Indeed. I know I did. In The Bronx at my mother's house.

[@ctbadcop15]

Ct as well ! We had the same channels

[@Hypestyle]

harmony is so fine. big ups to the BDP crew, blastmaster KRS and DJ Kenny Parker

[@LGKids]

His voice sounds like he is about to spit a whole entire classic at anytime! Peace!

[@missayawk]

Even though they don't sound the same, but C.L Smooth and Common's speaking voices sound like they're about to spit bars too.

[@korancebland]

Love these old interviews.

[@MistaMillionz763]

Thanks. Lots more to come. Subscribe and stay tuned

[@dazzler5670]

He is so awesome. Amazing that what he talks about is still relevant. - even globally.

[@RightInFrontOfYou]

Still relevant my azz. Rappers getting kllled every week and all they yap about is kllling drugs, money, and bangin somebody's wife sister or girlfriend.

[@fahlito]

Now that I've read Kenny Parker's book "My Brother's Name Is Kenny" and as I watch this and look at Kenny in the back, I can't help to think that he's thinking, "Is this my brother Larry right now?!" 😂😂😂

[@kellymills8779]

Riiiight! Just finished the book last week! Lol 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@missayawk]

​@@kellymills8779 Read it last year and took it to his book signing and had Kenny sign it

[@rooseveltdarbey9493]

Look at how intelligent KRS was in his 20's, artists nowadays could not put together a complete sentence that makes sense.

[@Aziz.Hakim.]

REMINDS ME OF TUPAC

[@missayawk]

" yoo know what I'm saying?"

[@iSee109]

Brilliant. Clear. Cogent. Persuasive.

[@hassanburton669]

Ghetto Music The Original Blueprint. I Have This Album. Remember it’s Debut back in 1989.

[@MistaMillionz763]

Great album. Right out the gate with "The Style You Haven't Done Yet'

[@gilsantos7701]

Gil 180 BX KRS ONE is my favorite rapper of all times and uncle Ralph mad love to you too for doing the work you do I watch video music box every week 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷💯😎👍🏼

[@michaelparker2678]

Video Music Box was ground breaking in so many ways. It was literally the Blue print for HIP HOP shows and youtube Vlogs that followed. Somewhere in my basement or attic, I have hundreds of VHS and Betamax video tapes of just about every episode recorded along with commercials of the time. Uncle Ralph and crazy Sam became household names in the New York tri state area back in the mid 80s through out the 90s.

[@frankwhite7109]

Please post them here. Idk why Ralph never did it...

[@leonardguillory2511]

I'd love to view some of those tapes! Although, I doubt you have the machines to play them! Let alone to be able to connect to a Television or Monitor. 😠

[@kevinforeman4485]

Read up on how MTV stole his idea and not only that barred him from continuing his platform.

[@jay-leeofficialcctv]

Hes talking so many facts in this clip, it must have been amazing and very inspiring to hear these kinds of truths on TV back in the day. 💯

[@germxv]

And that's why this type of group and music got snuffed out by the record companies because they are racists and didn't like the fact thst these messages were getting to the youth and being adhered to. That's when the 90s came and the record labels only pushed hiphoo with sex or violence in it. Demons, the same demons that pushed slavery and Jim crow and blaxploitation films......ruined the music , culture and thousands if lives.....again.

[@MistaMillionz763]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@gilsantos7701]

Gil 180 BX and I’m happy I met both of you guys in Orchard Beach this summer and got pictures with you guys. I always wanted to meet both of you guys 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷💯😎👍🏼

[@shawnesor9792]

From Ralph Avenue and Halsey st video music box was my life krs one my #1 of all times Ralph Avenue

[@robertbailey6611]

Wow I've learnt more in 14minutes than i did in school

[@DavidRichardson95]

Can't wait for the documentary on Showtime this Friday!! Definitely watching!!!

[@erwinrogers9470]

Legendary

[@GLIDE169WEBSIDE]

Thanks YT for the recommendation💯Uncle Ralph is the best

[@fuzzytimes187]

Harmony's Poundcake is 🔥

[@WorldOfConsequence]

that beat is CRAZY!

[@RolloSmokes]

I have the entire episode which features this interview...an Arsenio Hall anti-drug PSA came on before, and "Jack of Spades" came on afterwards.

[@1117AJ]

I just read that his first t v appearance was on video music box

[@MistaMillionz763]

I wouldn't doubt it.

[@coreyhendricks9490]

Excellent interview 💯

[@trueOGseries]

2pac definitely got some talking points from KRS

[@Aziz.Hakim.]

NEVER NOTICED HOW SIMILAR THEIR AURAS ARE.

[@ltod2]

Uncle Ralph put a lot of hip hop legends out back in the days,KRS One is no exception he's best rapper all time did a lot for the culture still at what 56 years old?

[@ck8s316]

I am a supporter of BDP/KRS-One music for over 30 years now and I wonder if Kenny Parker and Harmony ever see this interview and say "Why did neither of us speak during this group interview?"

[@vincentwilliams5271]

The GOAT 🐐

[@dizmop]

what happened to the partners of B-Boy Records?

[@johhailfairley6362]

Lawrence is very intelligent and like Malcom X he's self educated

[@jeffreyfoss7369]

Alot of profound statements here (I'm going to use them as quotes).

[@erwinrogers9470]

Whatever happened to Harmony?

[@saloedroeg]

She is in the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir

[@erwinrogers9470]

@@saloedroeg Nice

[@mjg239]

This was shot before the KZbin era and I can tell that this is just the raw, unedited interview BEFORE it got edited, chopped up and many parts of it got archived, censored or went unaired due to the TV ethics codes at the time. So I’m curious what parts of this interview ACTUALLY MADE IT ONTO TV? Im sure in 1989 they didn’t air his speech about Black intellect and civilization stolen by Greece on the Video music box back then unedited.

[@MistaMillionz763]

I actually remember when this was broadcast. This entire interview clip aired on television. This was digitized from a vhs recording of the show.

[@arthurrobinson4644]

You know an only masters and they would have 1st ones out with the imprint on a close you know what the 1st one is to feed 2 different artists on the 1 label you know what I mean like he said he got harmony she's sung on backgrounds and he knows she chose the 1st 1 really do on the foot thing as far as females they were just they weren't in front and they were the 1st was banging on wax on East coastman

[@robertbailey6611]

The foundation

[@arthurrobinson4644]

You honestly don't want to think about it from the East Coast like care restaurant in BDP and restaurant P Scott LA rocquez well they will sole headache did time when you think about it just from a label in business standpoint they had their own production company bro and they would try and refuse together all the artists and hip hop

[@soloist9495]

13.18 jink personal jink

[@ltod2]

young Kenny Parker,who was the DJ then for BDP.D Nice left group,RIP to Willie D,Ms Melodi and Scott La Rock

[@nikomedia3807]

I love KRS, always have but come on, 5000 years of Greek Philosophy, passed down from one teacher to another, a history that we have written record of, he dismisses as " they stole it all from Ethiopia?" name me these Ethiopian philosophers, show us their work, show us where the Greeks stole it and made it their own. In fact Ethiopians borrowed from the Greeks but centuries later en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_philosophy. Enough of this pseudo-intellectiual pan-africanism. KRS just irks me some times. but he's still my all-time favourite rapper :)

[@ukjamaican4488]

There’s a lot wrong with your comment. However I’ll be named a “Pan Africanist” if I disagree with you. I mean you must be right, you provided a Wikipedia link 🙂Therefore, yes Greeks invented everything! Even though there’s multiple civilisations that predate Greece, We’ll run with the narrative that white Europeans invented everything, while black Africans sat in their mud hut dressed in leaves waiting for the white man to show how them how to be civilised. And that’s not “Pan Europeanism” cos that’s not a thing. Gotta love white people we wouldn’t have civilisation without them lol 😂

[@theharshtruth8563]

KRS was going to the library and reading from tampered and edited books so of course the "history" he learned was tampered and he taught that tampered history to his followers who claim it to be factual. "If you tell a lie long enough, it eventually seems like the truth"

[@nikomedia3807]

@@ukjamaican4488 of course, Greece was a nation that prided itself in learning and learning from other people and cultures. They got their alphabet from Phoenicia, The library of Alexandria was built with scrolls that were copied from ships that would enter its ports. Greece and Egypt had a long history of trade and commerce, as did Greece and the ancient Ethiopians and nobody is doubting that they gained wisdom and knowledge from them, but to be so dismissive about the weight and importance of Greek philosophy and to just say they stole it all from the Ethiopians is just ludicrous. Anyway I get it, it was a time when there was a re-awakening in black American culture, a time when people were realizing that the Eurocentric curriculum in schools was perhaps counter productive for African American students but the battle wasn’t with Greece, you can still learn about all the great contributions to the world that we got from the Greeks AND also learn about all the great contributions of the Ethiopians, Egyptians and everyone else. As a Greek I’ll stand up and defend Greece, I have no pan-European sentiments, I could give a shit about the Germans or the English or the French, I’ll never be proud of European accomplishments or say we Europeans did this or we did that, it’s Greece first then the world, what we’ve done as humans no matter where we’re from.

[@nikomedia3807]

@@ukjamaican4488 uk Jamaican, as an aside you just reminded me of how I got into bdp in the first place, it was ‘87 and my best friend, a Jamaican kid named d, let me hear bridge is over and I was instantly hooked. We grew up listening to mele Mel, run dmc, kool moe dee, the fat boys, kurtis blow, sugar hill gang, and other early hip hop but when I heard bdp I was blown away by the patois infused bravado and brilliance, there was nothing like it before or since.

[@sharde8581]

Greek accounts link virtually all the early philosophical schools to Egypt we know that Sudan and Ethiopia borders have shifted in relation to Egypt so I think KRS ONE means Egypt/Sudan. Thales was said to have learned geometry and mathematics in Egypt; Plato to have visited the temples of Thebes. The mathematical mysteries of the Pythagoreans, and their doctrine of reincarnation, were also attributed to Egyptian teaching. Ancient Greeks regarded Egypt as no less than a parent civilization.