![]() Trust me I was not sitting down, seamlessly going from one record to another. Brainstorm was on Capitol because I left Delicious - would you let an artist that just won a Grammy and just sold 2 million records leave? The lawsuit was major. It’s hard to say because there was so many other things going on. What would you do if you could go back and change how you approached your second record, 1991’s Brainstorm? I’ve watched the Grammys and seen people win with records that I’ve never heard before. Yeah, you sell the records and win the Grammy, but that’s a personal experience. I would meet people in places I’d never been and they would tell me stories. She had me come in and sign an album for his birthday… I didn’t understand how big “Bust A Move” was for at least three, four, five years afterwards. Just the other day, my investment banker, his assistant had mentioned to her brother that I was a client and he just busted out all the lyrics. He played the record for a girl he met me after a concert. I had a guy come up and thank me because he was able to get laid. The kids who were listening to it then are now gainfully employed.ĭanny Brown Comes Clean: 'I Didn’t Know How Long I Was Going To Be Living' They said he was actually good, and it made US News & World Report. And the press secretary at that time, Ari Fleischer, got drunk at a party at the ranch and did “Bust A Move” on karaoke. But pre-9/11, in 2001, Bush was taking a lot of vacations down to the ranch. I will preface this by saying I’m a lifelong Democrat. What’s your favorite story about the song’s legacy? They’ll go to a club to hear “Baby Got Back” or “Bust A Move” or “Wild Thing,” because that’s a fun time out. They’re not going to get a babysitter to go to a club and hear about you shooting people and raping women. But fast-forward 10 or 12 years and that person is now 30 and they have kids. You can be cussing, talking about killing people, and a 16-year-old will get into that out of rebellion. So you get these records that outsold “Bust A Move” that can’t get any play. “Bust A Move” still has a life 20 years later. The whole idea of “Bust A Move” crossing over being a bad thing, well it’s a good thing again now, because everybody’s seeing money fly out the door going, “Oh my God, where’s this big check I’m supposed to get being a rapper?” Flo Rida, and those records crossing over is actually helping - which is what we did in the first place! ![]() Crossing over wasn’t a bad thing, because nobody had crossed over yet.Īs soon as me and Loc blew up, I knew that there was a backlash… Now it’s come full circle. This is record I have, I don’t want to give a radio station a reason not to play it. It was almost like Ed Sullivan the way they approached it, because it was so cognizant of trying to appeal to as many people as possible. They wouldn’t even talk about going to bed. ![]() If you go back and listen to Sugar Hill Gang, Flash and the Furious Five, there was no swearing in it. I was so into “Rapper’s Delight” because I could hear the hi-hat in the record because it was on FM. You wanted to appeal to as many people as possible. But my view on rap music was calling up WBLS hoping that they would play “Rapper’s Delight” again at 12 years old. I didn’t really feel like I needed to live up to anything I wasn’t even living in a neighborhood like I grew up in. Well, I was going back to a college dorm every night when I was making that record. How did you stay so clean in the era of Public Enemy and N.W.A? “My record wasn’t necessarily rebellious, but it was clever enough to grab in a decent segment of people that didn’t listen to rap music.” “People looked at rap and hard rock as the type of music that you slam your door after you argue with your parents, and bang your head in defiance,” says Young. Hot on the heels of Tone Loc’s “Wild Thing” (a song which Young also wrote), “Bust A Move” broke down barriers on radio and MTV playlists, while its corresponding album, Stone Cold Rhymin’ was a rap record that many adults still remember as the first their parents let them play. Fueled by a sample-heavy production, Flea’s popping bassline, and infectious rhymes written in a University of Southern California dorm by economics major Marvin Young, “Bust A Move” helped usher in the era of pop-rap - songs squeaky clean enough for the whole family and infectious enough to bombard Billboard. Twenty summers ago, Young MC’s “Bust A Move” was inescapable, a G-rated funk-bomb integral to hip-hop’s eventual mainstream acceptance. ![]()
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