Two-Hit Wonders: Young MC

'Bust a Move' (No. 7, 1989)
'Principal's Office' (No. 33, 1990)

This producer and rapper ruled junior-high dances the world over with his 1989 hip-hop smash, 'Bust a Move.' And although his next hit, 'Principal's Office,' was minor by comparison, Young MC had something to fall back on: When he wasn't busy writing exactly two hits, Young MC was busy cowriting exactly two hits with fellow two-hitter Tone Loc. Does that make him, like, a two-hit god?

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Nadine A. Bantonat 7-05-2008

WRONG!! I assume you are white, yes author?? He had another hit, on black radio "I Let 'em Know". Don't get it twisted!!

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WalkingJukeboxat 8-07-2008

I forgot about that song I remember it

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qapla5at 8-11-2008

Um, the chart that's being referenced for the "two-hit wonder" category is the Billboard Hot 100, and the writer is limiting the hits to those which actually qualified as "hits" (which normally means the top 40).
Taking the R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart into account, you're wrong. Young MC only had TWO Top 40 songs on that chart as well--"Bust a Move" (#9) and "That's the Way Love Goes" (#32, and no connection to Janet Jackson's later hit single).
I don't know where YOU'RE coming up with "I Let 'Em Know" as a "hit" single, but it was NOT a chart single. It may have picked up some airplay (on the radio station you listened to) but it never charted on any Billboard singles/tracks chart.

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