He’s probably my best friend in the music business. I’ve done more shows with Tone than with anyone else. Did you guys stay in contact through the years?Ī: Oh yeah.

It’s an extraordinary opportunity to be able to do that many shows and be out in front of that many people. It’s been pretty much every weekend or the majority of the weekends each month, sometimes Thursday through Sunday, and never the same city twice. The rapper checked in from his Scottsdale home to talk about his life in music, from discovering hip-hop, pre-'Rapper's Delight,' as a child in Queens, to doing 100 dates a year or more since joining the 'I Love the '90s' package tour. Young laughs, then adds, 'The fact that I can go in and knock out a halftime for my hometown is just very cool.' Home is where the halftime is 'I go to other cities and I do their halftime and it’s like, 'Man, I wish I could do that at home. 'Doing halftime after living here 11 years is something I am really looking forward to,' he says. 'Then I jump into “Bust a Move” and everybody’s happy.'īut until this year, he'd never done one in the Valley. 'I get to do a little bit of a newer song,' he says. He's done his share of halftime gigs, from Sacramento to Chicago. The star, who moved to Scottsdale in 2006, recently treated the crowd at Talking Stick Resort Arena to a live performance of his platinum breakthrough during halftime at the Phoenix Suns game. He went on to earn his economics major as well as a well-deserved Grammy for Best Rap Performance. A 'jam for all the fellas,' 'Bust A Move' took Young MC from USC to No.

Marvin Young was in his senior year at University of Southern California when he wrote the single that remains his mainstream calling card three decades later.

You want it you got it bust a move