During their run on I Love The ’90s Tour, Tone Loc and Young MC delivered some news — touring keeps them feeling young.
"Sometimes it gets tough," Tone Loc, 56, acknowledged in an interview with HipHopDX. "But the one thing about it, I must say it has kept me a little younger. I must say because when I look at a lot of these old TV shows and these old movies, they’re always talking about people over 50 being old. I don’t feel like an old man ... I’m so happy I’m in the over 50 club."
In the same interview, Young MC agreed. “I know for me, when I hang around people my own age, outside of the music business, they look and feel older than me than I am," he said.
As of late, there's been a pivot toward 80s and 90s music, especially in R&B and Hip-Hop. Part of it is probably cyclical — every generation rediscovers the decades before them. Part of it is spawned by a thirst for normalcy and feel-good vibes, captured by events like D-Nice's immensely popular Club Quarantine and Swizz Beatz and Timbaland's Verzuz series. Young MC, who's toured steadily since the mega success of his 1989 song "Bust A Move," sees the fresh wave of interest firsthand.
“The interesting thing is people used to poo poo ’80s music," he said, adding that a shift has taken place with a new generation of listeners being ushered in. “They didn’t want to skip over a decade. So you see a lot of 80s fans. There’s a lot of 80s festivals that go out now.”