![]() ![]() 33 on the Hot 100, while album opener "I Come Off" made it to No. Young's next single, the lively and jocular "Principal's Office" got as high as No. 9 on the Billboard 200 album chart and earned RIAA platinum certification. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, and went RIAA platinum less than eight months after it dropped. Released in September of 1989, the corresponding Stone Cold Rhymin' full-length peaked at No. With its funky vibe and Young's boisterous flow, "Bust A Move" made for a summertime smash. "My parents gave me the summer to get this music thing out of my system, then to get a real job or go to grad school when the fall came," he says. His first nationally-available single as Young MC, "Know How" dropped in 1988, while the follow-up "Bust A Move" came out the following year right around the time of his graduation. After inking with Delicious Vinyl, he began recording album tracks like "I Let 'Em Know" and "My Name Is Young" while immersed in his studies. "I went to the Student Senate representative from the law school and asked him to look over my contract," he says with a lighthearted laugh. Shrewd about his affairs from the jump, Young didn't sign on that dotted line right away. "Within a week of that phone call, they sent me a contract." "I basically recited about four or five verses that ended up on Stone Cold Rhymin'," he recalls of his album debut's genesis. On summer break from college, Young found himself frequenting the midtown Manhattan record store Rock And Soul, which through a connected employee led to recording some demos and ultimately a crucial three-way conference call with Matt Dike and Michael Ross of soon-to-be seminal rap imprint Delicious Vinyl. "Knowing where to breathe in terms of what you're rhyming came very instinctively to me from a young age.įast forward to 1987. ![]()
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