Best Songs, Part 2: My Philosophy
January 18, 2019 • #In college I’d listened to KRS-One’s solo albums before I ever heard his original work with Boogie Down Productions. One of my top songs is the landmark track from their 1988 album By All Means Necessary:
“My Philosophy” is the opener that sets the tone for the record, just like “Poetry” from their first album.
I love how the verse just keeps coming — no chorus, no language, just a chain of rhyming (even across bar lines) for five and a half minutes.
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