MC Shan
b. Shawn Moltke, 8 September 1965, Queens, New York, USA. Moltke enjoyed an unusual start to his hip-hop career. Rather than the drudgery of demo cassettes and auditions, he was first spotted by his future Cold Chillin' Records boss as he attempted to steal his car. Nevertheless, with the early guiding hand of cousin Marley Marl, Shan has gone on to provide an inconsistent but occasionally interesting legacy. His debut album was the archetypal B-boy artefact, replete with Marl's stripped down production and conscious and party rhymes (the best example of the former being the anti-drugs track "Jane, Stop This Crazy Thing!", the worst instance of the latter "Project 'Ho"). The follow-up was more musically varied, but Shan's voice lacked the agility to compete with some exquisite samples. He dispensed with Marl in time for Play It Again, Shan, which, as the title might suggest, saw a bid for more mainstream territory. Apart from the instructional "It Ain't A Hip Hop Record", there was little to distinguish this collection and its lacklustre Heavy D-styled performance. During the 90s Shan concentrated on production work at the expense of his own recording career.
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Albums
- (1995) Down By Law
Top Tracks
- The Bridge
- Left Me - Lonely
- Down By Law
- Kill That Noise
- Profect 'Ho
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