The Fact That There Is No Thread About Young MC Is A Disgrace

He was a good rapper. Many other lesser rappers have their own threads. Talk about young mc here.

“Know How” is a lot of fun; as with most of his work, he carries the majority of the water while his producers seem to be phoning it in

Know How is by far the better of the two Dust Brothers productions imo (and their only solo one)

And I’d need to listen to the rest of side two for the first time in thirty years, but without knowing whether music or lyrics came first, iirc the best songs are the ones where Dike & Ross are giving him something to work harder to meet. Compare the Southern Comfort mix of I Come Off, where Young’s flow is so precise that Mackintosh & Dorrell can lay a jazzier, fussier, hornier groove underneath his vocal and make him sound more confident — but the escalating punctum of his delivery was meeting the percussive or scratch breaks in the original — with his return, freed from the oppressive dullitude of outside producers: is there really any variation between delivery in any of the verses of Keep It In Your Pants?

speaking of phoning it in tho

I saw him open for Milli Vanilli.

I was a huge fan of Principal's Office, mostly due to that sick piano sample, but it was also a solid late-80s narrative novelty rap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE7fs2979Y4