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Young MC Charts His First New Hit in Over 20 Years
Young MC returns to the Billboard charts for the first time in 20 years with "Fun Part." Get the details.
2 on the Billboard Hot 100 – at the time, the genre’s highest peaking hit on the flagship chart – while “Funky Cold Medina” nearly duplicated the feat, reaching a No. and The Blind Side, a 1997 commercial for Priceline in which William Shatner recited some of the song’s lyrics, and moments on TV’s Glee and The Big Bang Theory. Last year’s celebrations surrounding the 50th anniversary of hip-hop’s creation, dating to its accepted 1973 origin in New York City, and virtually every major music publication and organization’s salute to the genre’s expansion from a potential fad to a world-conquering sound.
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