Released on 5 September 1989 "Stone Cold Rhymin'" was the debut album by American rapper Young MC, the album reached No. 9 on the Billboard 200 and spawned six singles, "I Let 'Em Know", "Know How", "Principal's Office", "I Come Off", "Pick Up The Phone", & the hit single "Bust A Move" which is still to date, Young MC's biggest single and best-know song, his following single "Principal's Office" was also catchy and reached No. 33 on Billboard Hot 100, he was also nominated for "Best Rap Video" at the 1990 MTV VMAS.
The debut album of a young rapper named Marvin Young aka Young MC, who at that time was looking for a way to finance his university studies, without knowing it, he ended up hitting the mark thanks to a catchy and entertaining rap mix that appealed to the concerns of the youth of that time. He was considered the friendlier and more relaxed side of rap, the opposite of NWA or Public Enemy who defended social causes and the problems that black youth suffered in the ghettos, while Young MC was more of the "Parker Lewis Can't Lose" type appealing to the typical school problems, girls, exams and things like that without so much nonsense, pure good vibes in which one could easily identify back then.
It was 1989 and there were other concerns, the cold war and the political issues of the moment were about to come to an end, it was a turbulent but exciting year after all, we also had MTV as our flagship channel that kept us up to date with what was happening in terms of music, at that time, rap music was beginning to be noticed and one of the first massive stars we could say was Young MC, coinciding with Tone Loc in that friendlier aspect of rap, and they were the ones who opened the door for people like MC Hammer or Vanilla Ice to enter that later.
Released under the Delicious Vinyl label, the album itself is truly creative, catchy and fun to listen to, the lyrics are clean and intelligent, and they show the class that Young MC had, without vulgarity or murders, or drugs but pure good vibes, and perhaps that was the secret of why this album managed to hit within a relatively whiter market that enjoyed to listen to rock music, since it went beyond the typical clichés of rap music, let's remember that it was the late 80's and early 90's and at that time rap was on the rise, it had a certain innocence and appealed a lot to aesthetics before it ended up degenerating and turning into a gangsta and violent vibe.
Critics back then were mixed, but definitely many agreed that Young MC had the clearest enunciation in rap: every word comes through perfectly, and yet his delivery is more musical than most.
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