Monie Love

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Down to Earth   AT 29 02/24/1991 (2 weeks)   CH 32 01/27/1991 (6 weeks)   UK 30th 10/20/1990 (3 weeks)   US 109 11/24/1990 (12 weeks)

Singles

I can do this   UK 37 02/04/1989 (4 weeks) Grandpa's party   UK 16 06/24/1989 (9 weeks) Monie in the Middle   UK 46 07/14/1990 (3 weeks) It's a Shame (My Sister) ( feat.True Image )   DE 11 11/12/1990 (19 weeks)   AT 12 02/03/1991 (12 weeks)   CH 6th 11/25/1990 (21 weeks)   UK 12 09/22/1990 (8 weeks)   US 26th March 16, 1991 (16 weeks) Down to Earth   DE 33 01/14/1991 (10 weeks)   CH 15th 01/20/1991 (11 weeks)   UK 31 December 01, 1990 (6 weeks) Ring My Bell (vs. Adeva )   DE 25th 04/22/1991 (10 weeks)   CH 8th 04/28/1991 (11 weeks)   UK 20th 04/06/1991 (5 weeks) Full term love   UK 34 07/25/1992 (4 weeks)   US 96 08/08/1992 (1 week) Born 2 BREED   CH 35 04/04/1993 (2 weeks)   UK 18th 03/13/1993 (5 weeks)   US 89 03/13/1993 (6 weeks) In a Word or 2 / The Power   UK 33 06/12/1993 (3 weeks) Never give up   UK 41 08/21/1993 (2 weeks) Slice of da Pie EP   UK 29 04/22/2000 (2 weeks)

Monie Love (* 2. July 1970 as Simone Wilson in London , UK , now Simone Gooden ) is an English MC and radio presenter in the United States . Love was a respected figure in British hip-hop and was successful with American hip-hop listeners as the protégé of the American MC Queen Latifah and through her membership in Native Tongues in the late 1980s / early 1990s. Love was one of the first BritHop artists to be signed by the bigger labels and distributed worldwide.

Early years

Monie Love was born in Battersea , London, the younger sister of techno musician Dave Angel , her father was a jazz musician in London.

Career

Monie Love started her hip-hop / BritHop career as an MC at Jus Bad, where DJ Pogo, Sparki and MC Mell'O 'were also involved. The group released the single Free Style / Proud in 1988 on the indie label Tuff Groove.

Monie Love received first public attention in the US in 1989 for her cameo appearance on Queen Latifah's Grammy- winning feminist single Ladies First , the Jungle Brothers single Doin 'Our Own Dang, and De La Soul's hit single Buddy . This recognition led to a contract with Warner Bros. Records that made Monie Love one of the few British hip-hop artists to be released by a major label.

Monie Love also has a place in hip hop history as a member of Native Tongues, a positive hip hop collective that consisted of Queen Latifah, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest , the Jungle Brothers and countless others.

Love's debut album Down To Earth included two Grammy-nominated hits, Monie in the Middle (a high school song about a woman's right to choose what to expect from a relationship) and It's a Shame (My Sister) , which is a sample of the song it's a Shame of the Spinners , that of Stevie Wonder has been written, and in collaboration with Ultra Nat was born. The album peaked at number 26 on the R&B / Hip Hop album charts.

Monie Love participated in her brother Dave Angel 's remix of Whitney Houston's hit My Name Is Not Susan in 1991 and appeared in the music video alongside Whitney Houston. In 1992 Love's single Full Term Love from the soundtrack for the film class act reached number 7 in the hip hop charts.

She worked in 1993 on their second album In A Word or two on which the of Prince produced single Born To BREED (the number one in the dance charts and # 7 reached the Rapcharts) and a re-release of Full Term Love was , with Marley Marl . That same year, Prince asked her if she would write the lyrics for a few songs on Carmen Electra 's album of the same name.

Love's last musical release was the EP Slice of Da Pie in 2000.

Radio career

From 2004 to December 2006 Monie Love was the morning presenter on WPHI-FM in Philadelphia . Her amicable departure from this station followed shortly after an interview with Young Jeezy in which both discussed whether hip-hop was dead.

Monie Love is an official MySpace.com DJ according to her MySpace page. She currently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is a single mother of four. She is hosting a radio show on XM Satellite Radio called Ladies First Radio with Monie Love .

Discography

Albums

• 1990 Down to Earth
• 1993 In A Word Or 2

Singles / EPs

• 1989 I Can Do This
• 1989 Grandpa's Party
• 1990 Monie in the Middle
• 1991 It's A Shame (My Sister)
• 1991 Down 2 Earth
• 1991 Ring My Bell Monie Love vs. Adeva
• 1991 Work It Out
• 1992 Full Term Love
• 1993 Born 2 BREED
• 1993 In A Word Or 2
• 1993 Never Give Up
• 2000 Slice of Da Pie

Web links

• Monie Love at Allmusic (English)
• Monie Love's myspace.com page
• The early days of hip hop development in the UK Britishhiphop.co.uk

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US1 US2
2. ↑ ^{a b} Bethan Cole: MixMag Interview: Dave Angel. techno.de, accessed on November 18, 2006 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Alex Henderson: "Down To Earth" Review. AllMusic.com, accessed November 18, 2006 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Alex Henderson: "In A Word Or 2" Review. AllMusic.com, accessed November 18, 2006 . 
5. ↑ Laurie T. Conrad: Did Jeezy Get Monie Love Fired? In: rhymes with snitch. December 22, 2006, accessed on September 11, 2016 (with a link to the interview). 
6. ↑ Janeé Bolden: Monie Love Gets None, Officially Off The Air In Philly. SOHH.com, December 22, 2006, archived from the original on June 7, 2008 ; Retrieved May 29, 2007 .