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Monie Love: Down To Earth (Cooltempo)

Caroline Sullivan, Smash Hits, 17 October 1990

RAPPERS ARE always rambling on about themselves in their songs — how completely "slammin'" they are and how laughably "wack" everyone else is. How pleasant, then, that Simone "Monie" Love spends her album rapping about things that we, the viewers, can relate to.

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