On Sept. 5, 1989, Young MC dropped his debut album, Stone Cold Rhymin'.

The biggest hit from the album was of course, "Bust A Move," which remains a pop-rap staple and pushed the album to #7 of the Billboard 100. The track arrived in 1989 on Delicious Vinyl, and was written in 1988 while Young was still a student at University of Southern California.  

"I was writing my songs after homework on school nights. And I remember the draft to “Bust A Move,” once I got the track, took about 90 minutes," he told Spin. "Other than changing the title — because it was initially “Make That Move” — other than that, it’s pretty much verbatim. It’s full-on stream of consciousness, no rhyming dictionary, nothing. And a lot of the big words came from the fact that I was probably doing English or some other homework right beforehand, so my vocabulary’s kind of in that multisyllabic realm. And then I’d write the song."

In the same interview, he talked about how his location played a key role in the song's creation. "I tell people all the time, music like that could only happen at that time in California, or at least outside of New York," he said. "If I stayed in New York, I never would’ve made a record like “Bust A Move” because it didn’t sound like anything that had been done before. And that was a lot of the focus. When you’re in big hip-hop mecca marketplaces, they want you to do what everything else sounds like. And N.W.A. comes out, there’s not a clamor for everybody to sound like N.W.A."

Young MC also co-wrote Tone Loc's two hit singles, "Wild Thing" as well as "Funky Cold Medina." He says he always went into writing songs with a focused mindset. "Ultimately, I was just myself," he said. "I just made every record like it was my last record."

Reminisce below.