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Young MC: Rhymin' Reason

Julian Henry, Music Week, 9 December 1989

"IT TOOK me about 35 minutes to write the words to 'Wild Thing' and about an hour to write 'Funky Cold Medina'. It was easy." Young MC smiles as he talks about the two worldwide hits he provided for Tone Loc, the former being the biggest selling rap record of all time.

Total word count of piece: 424

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