Jimmy

Recorded during the By All Means Necessary sessions at Power Play Studios in New York City between September 1987 and March 1988, with KRS-One writing, producing, and performing the track. It appears on the 1988 Jive/RCA album by Boogie Down Productions. "Jimmy" was one of the album’s standout tracks and extended the group’s turn toward socially conscious rap after Scott La Rock’s death. Its direct, sex-education framing fit the album’s broader focus on public-health and community issues. The track has remained widely recognizable through its sample use and reuse, including later hip-hop records such as The Notorious B.I.G.’s "Diddy" and other songs that quote or clear its hook and refrain. Its subject matter also keeps it in circulation as an early mainstream rap example of candid safe-sex messaging.