This is Michael Mixerr. Today I will review the Criminal Background - Blood On The Wall album released in 1993 on cassette only with 6 tracks. 3 on each side. Criminal Background is White Lee (Lee Laury), Ronnie Johns (The .44 Caliber Killer), and Young Po (pronounced Pooh). Criminal Background is from King Hood/Rankin Hood (Rankin Street). Criminal Background was a rap group from Rankin Street which is located 1 city block from Dayton Street aka Dayton Avenue.
As I stated in Mixerr Reviews #640, Ronnie Johns had often affiliated himself with the King Hood rap group Criminal Background from Rankin Street a block or so north of Dayton Avenue (Dayton Street). Ronnie Johns Murderer/burglar Ronnie Johns who was once a fry cook. Ronnie Johns had affiliated himself with Criminal Background members White Lee until his arrest in 1992.
Criminal Background - Blood On The Wall album was released in 1993 on cassette only with 6 tracks. 3 on each side. Criminal Background is White Lee (Lee Laury), Ronnie Johns (The .44 Caliber Killer), and Young Po (pronounced Pooh). Criminal Background is from King Hood/Rankin Hood (Rankin Street). Criminal Background was a rap group from Rankin Street which is located 1 city block from Dayton Street aka Dayton Avenue.
Ronnie Johns had often affiliated himself with the King Hood rap group Criminal Background from Rankin Street a block or so north of Dayton Avenue (Dayton Street). Ronnie Johns Murderer/burglar Ronnie Johns who was once a fry cook. Ronnie Johns had affiliated himself with Criminal Background members White Lee and Young Po until his arrest in 1992.
G-Move is all about that Gank Move. G-Move is about the criminal lifestyle of Criminal Background.
White Lee is paranoid of seeing the police lights flash. So White Lee calls his boy to meet him on Dayton Street to figure out what . Criminal Background is about to go on a killing spree. White Lee needs money because he’s financially struggling. In fact, they both because they’re financially struggling. Criminal Background commits a home invasion by kicking down the door which led them to breaking and entering the home. The individual packed a pistol but was shot. Upon breaking and entering into the home, Criminal Background goes into another room acquiring 10 grand ($10,000) and 1/8th a kilogram of cocaine. Raps about criminal insanity linger on.
Walking through the neighborhood, White Lee saw a sucker he just jack in a Mercedes Benz. The sucker backed off fast. Young Po starts shooting as the car drives off. He realizes he needs to leave the scene. Now we are at the dopehouse on Rankin Street. What the fuck? White Lee is surrounded by drug dealers and a female. White Lee is strapped with an uzi on his back. Female yells “It’s a jack!” White Lee is high off cocaine as he take the money and dope. White Lee spots his next suck wearing a gold chain around his neck. He wants it acquired. So White Lee kills the sucker for his gold chain.
When Young Po leaves the scene of a crime, the clips in his firearm are empty. Young Po snorts a line of cocaine. Young Po breaks and enters someone’s home committing a home invasion acquiring money and gold. We hear that Young Po is playing with a gun which he accidentally blows out someone’s brain with. Just another symptom of criminal insanity. He’s going broke in order to bank.
White Lee is on the gank move. He’s been robbing people since age 13. Ammunition for him is not a problem. He packs many guns. He’s a crazy motherfucker. White Lee is still high off cocaine.
Young Po has the mind of a lunatic. He’s putting people on the front page of newspapers in the headlines. If was he was said, then would not snort cocaine. Young Po is on the solo creep. Later Young Po waits for a cab so he can blow out the drivers brains. Later Young Po goes off to buy some product. The dealer tells him to come back in an hour. Young Po wants it all. So Young Po came back an hour later with a gat.
Blood On The Wall is a song about incarcerated Criminal Background member Ronnie Johns.
We first hear a news clip about the most dangerous man to walk the city streets of Flint, Michigan. The news reporter states that Ronnie Johns is now incarcerated and behind bars in jail awaiting trial for the murders he committed in the 1990s. The news clip was an actual news clip that was used at his trial in 1993.
A blood stain on the wall is what triggers Criminal Background to go off on a killing spree. White Lee starts off the track. He gets high off cocaine to the point where he cannot breathe. He wants money and gold. White Lee makes reference to the August 1991 murder of Lucille Bowie and Demetrius Rawls that occurred on Grand Traverse Street near 11th Street. Also White Lee made reference to the baby Ronnie Johns killed. Ronnie Johns is referred to as the “.44 cal killer”. Ronnie Johns used to rob drug dealers at dopehouses.
Reference to Steven Ray to where he was gunned down at 400 West Taylor Street is made too. Ronnie Johns gunned down Steven Ray at a house on 400 West Taylor Street during his murder spree. After that, Ronnie Johns had suddenly took out a stolen .44 caliber Ruger Redhawk from a person’s house which he burglarized earlier and demanded money. So he killed Steven Ray. Ronnie Johns had killed an infant too. He killed another victim on Grand Traverse Street.
Rise & Fall is about White Lee’s trials in the dope game with him coming up. Rise & Fall is a White Lee solo. White Lee made a killing living his life on the streets. On Rise & Fall, White Lee teaches his audience game such as never trust cops as cops are the biggest crooks, never trust a bitch with her hand in her pocketbook, never let a snitch know what you did with a gun. White Lee also teaches us to never run your mouth when, before, or after dirt is done.
White Lee contemplates how he will live his life and what will become of him. Everyone is trying to make it by getting rich. People aren’t your friends. They will get you when your back is turned. The media ostracizes White Lee as the enemy of everything going wrong in society, but White Lee doesn’t give a fuck. Nonetheless, White Lee speaks the truth. He hates the critics.
White Lee tells us more tales of the dope game. White Lee was arrested for illegal distribution of a controlled substance to the Vice Squad. He was incarcerated for 6 month and now he’s back on the streets living the life. He bought a dope black Benz and a luxury home.
Young Po used to sell dope. He’s done a few stickups too. Young Po was incarcerated for a minute too and now he’s back on the streets living the life. He is now into the rap game doing music. Young Po kicks his funky shit with that Flint funky sound. The bass sounds real good as he puts it.
Pussy Go-Getta samples the sexually suggestive love ballad Rick James - Give It To Me. Criminal Background explores sexuality with their raps on Pussy Go-Getta. Also, Criminal Background discovers their sexual side on Pussy Go-Getta. White Lee destroys most of this track. Age 12 is where White Lee and Young Po explain what went wrong at that age. They both explain how they lived their criminal lifestyle. Criminally Insane explains the lifestyle of Criminal Background.
This Criminal Background shit is quite eerie brooding and similar to Esham with his acid rap style that is not very common. A lot of rappers and groups from Flint were copying the acid rap sound before Jake The Flake came out with Flint Thugs Compilation in 1998. Criminal Background is some freaky horrorcore shit. While Criminal Background - Blood On The Wall is no rock album, rock elements are used on tracks such as Rise & Fall and Pussy Go-Getta. White Lee should have done more solo tracks on this EP.
I rate this album, Blood On The Wall, 5/5*****!!
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