Talk:Criminal Minded

Controversy section

The section needs sources and some rewriting to get rid of POV language (referring to "hoods," for example), but my immediate question is what this means: One evening, Jones was assaulted by some local hoodlums and he later called Sterling to run interference. "Running interference" as I understand the phrase doesn't fit here, so a word change would be in order. | Mr. Darcy talk 22:38, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Totally agree it would need rewriting, my question is why the controversy appears in the album's page? Until it talks about criminal minded being difficult to get hold of it seems to be BDP/KRS-One controversy. Don't know enough to edit this though - maybe it is linked and I don't understand. Tomcrocker (talk) 16:23, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

The last sentence (R.E.M. collaboration and Tibetan Freedom Concert performance) doesn't have anything to do with this album and should be removed from this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gettiton (talk • contribs) 01:46, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

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Re: Samples

1) I seem to recall that "Criminal Minded" contains merely an interpolation of "Hey Jude" at the very beginning, not an actual sample. Or perhaps I've been smoking the wrong substances again?

2) Was "South Bronx" sampled for Rey Mysterio's earlier entrance music, specifically the hip-hop-flavored song used prior to "Booyaka 619?" Sure sounds like it to me.
RadioKAOS (talk) 22:02, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Initial Summary

"In fact, the whole album was built on the frustration and jealousy Kris felt by MC Shan with half of its songs about being aware and therefore targeting of Sucker MCs."

This seems subjective and perhaps written by someone taking the Queensbridge side of The Bridge Wars. Certainly it does't belong in the initial summary section. Also it's not written well, probably should say something more like "jealousy that Kris felt towards MC Shan". I'm not sure what the last part of the sentence is supposed to mean. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Woodstea (talk • contribs) 15:16, 19 November 2018 (UTC)