Edutainment (album)

Edutainment
Studio album by Boogie Down Productions
Released	July 17, 1990
Recorded	1989–1990
Genre	Hip hop
Length	69:57
Label	Jive/RCA Records 1358-J
Producer	KRS-One, D-Nice Pal Joey
Boogie Down Productions chronology
Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop (1989) Edutainment (1990) Sex and Violence (1992) Singles from Edutainment "Love's Gonna Get'cha (Material Love)" Released: July 5, 1990 "Ya Know the Rules" Released: 1990

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
Robert Christgau
Entertainment Weekly	B+
Rhapsody	(favorable)
Rolling Stone
Trouser Press	(favorable)
The Source

Edutainment is the fourth album from Boogie Down Productions. It is an album whose lyrics are based around afrocentricity and socio-political knowledge. It has 6 skits/interludes known as 'exhibits' that all talk about or relate to Black people. Many skits feature Kwame Ture (ne Stokely Carmichael) a leader of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on October 10, 1990. KRS One has stated in interviews that the album has sold over 600,000 copies

Track listing

#	Title	Producer(s)	Performer (s)
1	"Exhibit A"	KRS-One	*Interlude*
2	"Blackman In Effect"	KRS-One, D-Nice	KRS-One
3	"Ya Know The Rules"	KRS-One	KRS-One, D-Nice
4	"Exhibit B"	KRS-One	*Interlude*
5	"Beef"	KRS-One	KRS-One
6	"House Nigga's"	KRS-One	KRS-One
7	"Exhibit C"	KRS-One	*Interlude*
8	"Love's Gonna Get'cha (Material Love)"	Pal Joey	KRS-One
9	"100 Guns"	KRS-One	KRS-One
10	"Ya Strugglin'"	D-Nice, KRS-One	KRS-One, Kwame Toure
11	"Breath Control II"	KRS-One	KRS-One
12	"Exhibit D"	KRS-One	*Interlude*
13	"Edutainment"	KRS-One	KRS-One
14	"The Homeless"	KRS-One	KRS-One
15	"Exhibit E"	KRS-One	*Interlude*
16	"The Kenny Parker Show"	KRS-One	KRS-One
17	"Original Lyrics"	KRS-One	KRS-One, Special K
18	"The Racist"	KRS-One	KRS-One
19	"7 Dee Jays"	Decadent Dub Team, KRS-One, Sidney Mills	KRS-One, D-Nice, Heather B., Jamal-Ski, Ms. Melodie, Harmony, D-Square
20	"30 Cops Or More"	Decadent Dub Team, KRS-One, Sidney Mills	KRS-One
21	"Exhibit F"	KRS-One	*Interlude*

Instrumental Credits

"100 Guns"

• Keyboards: Sidney Mills

Chart positions

Chart (1990)	Peak position
Billboard 200	32
Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums	9

Later Samples

• "100 Guns"
  • "Kingdom Come" by Jay-Z from the album Kingdom Come
  • "New York" by Ja Rule featuring Fat Joe and Jadakiss from the album R.U.L.E.
• "Love's Gonna Get'cha (Material Love)"
  • "The Day the Niggas Took Over" by Dr. Dre featuring Dat Nigga Daz (for first time ever), RBX, Snoop Dogg from the album The Chronic