{"id":16528,"date":"2010-08-27T17:48:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T15:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=16528"},"modified":"2010-08-27T17:48:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T15:48:58","slug":"r-i-p-scott-la-rock-remembering-the-bdp-legend-23-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/r-i-p-scott-la-rock-remembering-the-bdp-legend-23-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Scott La Rock – Remembering the BDP Legend 23 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Originally printed in the September 2002 issue of XXL:<\/p>\n

Twenty-three years ago, New York\u2019s adolescent rap scene was forced to grow up. Violently. The murder of Scott La Rock was much more than simply the loss of a talented up and coming DJ. In many ways, La Rock\u2014in both his life and his death\u2014set the stage for hip-hop as we know it today.<\/p>\n

While he was alive, La Rock drafted the aesthetic blueprint for gangsta rap with the previously unexplored street themes and shocking imagery of BDP\u2019s classic Criminal Minded (the only album he ever recorded). On the business side, his Black-owned independent label, B Boy Records, pioneered the burgeoning genre\u2019s rebel entrepreneurialism.<\/p>\n

\u201cScott would have been Puff before Puff, no question,\u201d says Chris Lighty, a close friend of Scott\u2019s who now runs the Violator Records empire. \u201cBut without the dancing. He approached the music as a business at a time when most people just wanted to be down and make records.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Originally printed in the September 2002 issue of XXL: Twenty-three years ago, New York\u2019s adolescent…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t