Young MC

Young MC: Stone Cold Rhymin' (Delicious Vinyl BRLP 540); The DOC: No One Can Do It Better (Ruthless/Atlantic 791308)

Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 1 December 1989

THE WEST Coast rap ascendancy continues with a couple of strong, though flawed, releases from the two main parent organisations. ...

Young MC: Rhymin' Reason

Interview by 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." ...

U.S. Rap: Listen Up!

Report and Interview by Mark Cooper, Q, January 1990

RAIN IS STREAMING down in sheets on the Long Island suburb of Hempstead but, inside Public Enemy's headquarters, the group's leader Chuck D is just ...

Lip-Smacking LA: Delicious Vinyl

Report and Interview by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 11 February 1989

New Yorkers, the creators of hip hop, have never been receptive to outside beats, and in the past only the Philly scene has given them ...