Reminiscin'... YO! MTV Raps

The other day a friend FB'd me a link to a YouTube-clip with Mary J Blige and Grand Puba performing "What's the 411?" live in the YO! MTV Raps studio. The tune is dope, and the performance is awesome... This made me reminisce how I used to watch YO! MTV Raps 1991-1994 to catch up with the latest jams from the states, crackin' up and laughing to the stupid jokes of hosts Dr Dre and Ed Lover, and watching Fab 5 Freddy's (what I at the time thought were quite silly) interviews with the main hip hop artists of those years. Hip hop was hardly played in Swedish radio and it was really difficult to find hip hop albums in the record stores. To get the freshest rap tunes I used to record the YO! MTV Raps shows on VHS, so I then could connect the TV to my HiFi and record the tracks I liked to cassettes and put together hip hop mixtapes. So, let me take you back in time and share some great LIVE moments from this brilliant TV show...