"Bust a Move" 20 Years Later: Young MC Reflects on the Hit That Changed Hip-Hop

[Raoul Duke]

Rapper on crossover backlash and finding out a Bush crony had karaoked his tuneTwenty summers ago, Young MC's "Bust A Move" was inescapable, a G-rated funk-bomb integral to hip-hop's eventual mainstream acceptance. 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. Hot on the heels of Tone Loc's "Wild Thing" (a...

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