By All Means Necessary
by Boogie Down Productions
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By All Means Necessary is ranked 2nd best out of 7 albums by Boogie Down Productions on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Boogie Down Productions is Criminal Minded which is ranked number 3490 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 431.
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By All Means Necessary track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 05/07/2026 21:06 |  cestuneblague | 8,242 | 80/100 |
| ! | 04/13/2026 00:10 | matterhornrider | 5,104 | 81/100 |
| ! | 04/04/2026 19:35 | Jonboy | 99 | 76/100 |
| ! | 04/04/2026 04:52 | Exist-en-ciel | 14,714 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/10/2025 15:14 | Hyggevinyl | 4,437 | 72/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.0/100, a mean average of 76.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.1.
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One of the essential conscious hip-hop albums. KRS-One's lyric's toe the line between corny and insightful, but they come across as honest and earnest due to his young age at the time and the circumstances surrounding the death of the other member of BDP, Scott La Rock. Despite La Rock's absence, the beats and production are still top notch, and KRS proves why he's one of the greatest MC's of his generation.
More perfectly adequate hip hop from 1988. With the amount of hip hop albums that came out that year, many of them struggle to pull away from the pack but KRS One is a forceful rapper and is beginning to transition into a more conscious hip hop style.
Boogie Down production might be influential but their music haven't aged well.
Graeme2 06/28/2014 14:48 | #115526
Must have listened to my philosophy as much as any other track ever. Rest of the album nowhere near as strong as that or the debut but still strong.
junodog4 09/17/2012 19:00 | #50647 | TOP COMMENT
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