it at number three on their list of the Top 10 Rap Albums. In 2003, the album was ranked number 444 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and was later ranked 239 in the 2020 edition.Complex named the song "South Bronx" as the ninth-best hip hop diss song of all-time. In 2017, rapper MC Ren named Criminal Minded as his all-time favorite hip hop album. MC Ren also heavily sampled "The Bridge Is Over" on his 1992 single "Final Frontier". Track listing [*] Bonus track found on later pressings. Samples Samples appearing on the album "Poetry" contains samples from the James Brown recordings "Soul Power Pt. 1", "The Boss", and "Don't Tell It" (scratches by TR Love). "South Bronx" contains samples from the James Brown recordings "Get Up Offa That Thing" and "Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved". "Word from Our Sponsor" contains samples from First Choice's "Love Thang". "Dope Beat" contains a sample from the AC/DC recording "Back in Black". "Remix For P is Free" contains a sample from the Yellowman recording "Zungguzungguguzungguzeng". "The Bridge Is Over" contains the kick and snare drum of the Honey Drippers' “Impeach the President,” an interpolation of a bassline from the Super Cat recording "Boops" (played on the studio piano by KRS-One), and a short melodic and lyrical interpolation of the Billy Joel recording "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me". "Super Hoe" contains samples from the Captain Sky recording "Super Sporm" and the Esther Williams recording "Last Night Changed it All (I Really Had a Ball)". "Criminal Minded" contains samples from the Syl Johnson recording "Different Strokes" and the Trouble Funk recording "Let's Get Small", and begins with a melodic and lyrical interpolation of the Beatles recording "Hey, Jude". Samples from the album by other artists "Poetry" "Doomsday" by M.F. Doom from the album Operation: Doomsday "The Bridge Is Over" "If It's Lovin' that You Want" by Rihanna from the album Music Of The Sun "Destroy & Rebuild" by Nas from the album Stillmatic "Final Frontier" by MC Ren from the album Kizz My Black Azz "Butt In The Meantime" Black Sheep from the album A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing "Brooklyn Took It" by Jeru the Damaja from the album The Sun Rises in the East "South Bronx" "Jenny From The Block" by Jennifer Lopez from the album This Is Me...Then "No One Else"