While a student at USC, Young was offered a record contract from the rap label Delicious Vinyl after rapping over the phone to label executives. Born in London and raised in Queens, New York, Young moved to LA in the late 80s to attend the University of Southern California where he earned a degree in economics.
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On the pop singles charts, rap as a genre didn’t really begin its big breakthrough until 19, when a diverse platform of both good and bad rap artists – Tone Loc, Monie Love, Vanilla Ice, Salt-n-Pepa, and MC Hammer among many others – stormed radio and the pop sales charts on both sides of the Atlantic and began to establish rap as the consistent chart hit generator that it remains to this day.Ĭaught up in this sweeping ’89-90 wave of pop-rap was one Marvin Young, otherwise known as Young MC. Sure, there were some rap songs that were big chart hits prior to that year – Rapper’s Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang, Walk this Way by Run DMC, The Message and White Lines by Grandmaster Flash, (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (to Party) by the Beastie Boys and, erm, Holiday Rap by MC Miker G and DJ Sven, but these were mainly outliers. But truth be told, when the Straight Outta Compton album was released in 1988, rap music of any kind was only just beginning to make a dent on the upper reaches of the pop singles charts. The surprise international box office success of the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton has generated renewed interest in the early years of rap music, and in particular the rise of West Coast and gangsta rap.
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