The Criminal Background - Blood On The Wall was a demo album that was written and recorded in 1992 by rappers Von Royce and White Lee from Flint, Michigan. Blood On The Wall has the eerie brooding horrorcore sounds and vibes as Esham with his acid rap style that is not very common. At that time, 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. 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. Criminal Background is some freaky horrorcore shit.
Criminal Background’s Blood On The Wall album had potential to be a full album that would have been a classic masterpiece if there were 16 or 17 tracks instead of just 6 tracks. White Lee should have done more solo tracks on this album/EP.
The Criminal Background - Blood On The Wall demo album was released in 1993 on cassette only with 6 tracks. 3 tracks were on each side. Their album was manufactured by Disk Makers. Blood On The Wall produced by Steve Pitts and Gardell Haralson.
The Criminal Background - Blood On The Wall album sold over 300,000 units nationwide with hardly any promotion. The only marketing tools used were word of mouth, live performances, and posters. Their album as released independently without any major record label support and no radio play.
Criminal Background is White Lee (Lee Laury aka Lee Baker), Ronnie Johns (The .44 Caliber Killer), and Young Po (pronounced as “pooh”). Criminal Background was a rap group from Rankin Street which is located 1 city block from Dayton Street aka Dayton Avenue inside of King Hood/Rankin Hood in Flint, Michigan.
Ronnie Johns was the serial killer who had often affiliated himself with the King Hood rap group Criminal Background from Rankin Street. Ronnie Johns was a murderer and burglar who was once a fry cook. He had affiliated himself with Criminal Background members White Lee and Young Po until his arrest in 1992. Ronnie Johns serving a mandatory life sentence to this day.
G-Move is all about living that criminal lifestyle hence the title. G-Move is short for gank move. White Lee and Young Po of Criminal Background rap about their experiences of living the criminal lifestyle.
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 exactly is happening. White Lee knows something is going on. Of course he has to get out there and do something.
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 based on Ronnie Johns the .44 caliber killer, a serial killer from Flint, Michigan. He was the incarcerated Criminal Background member White Lee and Young Po were rapping and talking about through the entire album. Blood On The Wall is a song based on a true story about 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. Ronnie Johns is referred to as the “.44 caliber killer” (“.44 cal killer”).
He was in connection with as many as 4 murders. Ronnie John killed more than 10 people. And that’s just the ones we know about. There is a high possibility that he killed and had more people murdered than we even know about.
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. 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. He killed another victim on Grand Traverse Street.
Also White Lee made reference to the baby Ronnie Johns killed. He shot a baby in the buttocks. Miraculously the baby survived.
Other people mentioned in this song were people Ronnie Johns associated with and committed his crimes with such as Abron Shakir aka Big Abe, Idell Cleveland aka Crooked I, DeWalt Evans, Reek Dogg, and many more.
Abron Shakir aka Big Abe was another person Ronnie Johns committed crimes with. He was doing dirt to get paid. Abe was broke and ready to do a jack. Him and Ronnie Johns grabbed firearms and committed a home invasion which quickly turned into a robbery. Both of them kicked down the back door of a dope house in a not so smooth manner. Money and cocaine were stolen. People who were inside could not escape. Ronnie murdered them all. Big Abe was locked down at the time this song was written due to the crimes he committed.
Rise & Fall is about White Lee’s trials in the drug game with him coming up. He talks about his downfall in the drug game and rise in the drug game.
On Rise & Fall, White Lee teaches his audience game (lessons) 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 as he deep in the drug game. In other words, he is in the business of selling drugs.White Lee made a killing living his life on the streets. 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. The critics hate White Lee because he speaks the truth which is something the powers that be cannot handle. So the media makes White Lee out to be the bad guy.
White Lee tells us more tales of the dope game. White Lee was arrested by F.A.N.G. (Flint Area Narcotics Group) for illegal distribution of a controlled substance to the Vice Squad. He was incarcerated for 6 months 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. People have to do what they have to do when they come from the ghetto. 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.
I rate this album, 5/5*****!!
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