BDP By All Means Necessary T-Shirt

Description

Malcolm’s silhouette. KRS’s mic. The album that turned rap into teaching.

In 1988, after losing Scott La Rock the year before to a senseless act of the very violence they’d been documenting, KRS-One returned with By All Means Necessary and rewrote what a hip-hop record could be. The Malcolm X cover pose — peering through the curtains, weapon in hand — wasn’t marketing. It was thesis. “My Philosophy” and “Stop the Violence” pivoted the whole culture from the crack-era carnage BDP had chronicled on Criminal Minded to something deeper: a call for the culture to teach itself, before the state did it for them.

This is the record that seeded the Stop the Violence Movement, put “Self-Destruction” on wax the following year, and put The Teacha on the map for good. Every conscious rap record since — from Public Enemy to Nas to Talib to Kendrick — owes By All Means Necessary a check.

Product Details

• Premium Bella Canvas 3001 — 100% combed and ring-spun cotton
• Lightweight (4.2 oz) with retail fit
• Pre-shrunk fabric
• Side-seamed construction
• Tear-away label for comfort
• Available in Black, Navy, and Chocolate

For the heads who quote “9mm Goes Bang” in the same breath as “Ya Slippin’”. For the ones who know KRS meant it when he called himself The Teacha. For you.