The album reached #26 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Love’s debut album, Down To Earth, spawned two, Grammy-nominated hits, “Monie in the Middle” (a high school-set track dealing with a woman’s right to determine what she wants out of a relationship) and “It’s a Shame (My Sister)” (which sampled The Spinners’ “It’s a Shame”, written for the band by Stevie Wonder) and featured house-music vocalist and then-labelmate Ultra Naté. Her versatility was demonstrated with her involvement in the emerging popularity of house music with her own single “Grandpa’s Party” as well as providing rap for the Dancin’ Danny D Remix of Adeva’s house hit “Respect”. Love also has a place in hip-hop history as a member of the Native Tongues, a positive-minded Hip Hop collective that included Queen Latifah, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, the Jungle Brothers, and a number of other acts. Records, making Love one of the few British hip-hop efforts released by a major label. The acclaim led her to a recording contract with Warner Bros. Love first gained critical and commercial notice in the United States in 1989 for her cameos on Queen Latifah‘s Grammy Award-winning and pro-woman single “ Ladies First“, on Adeva’s “Ring My Bell”, on the Jungle Brothers’ well-received single “Doin’ Our Own Dang” and on De La Soul‘s hit single “ Buddy“. The group released the single “Free Style/Proud” on the independent Tuff Groove record label in 1988. Love began her Hip Hop career as an emcee in the British Jus Bad crew, which featured DJ Pogo, Sparki, and MC Mell’O’. She is the younger sister of techno musician Dave Angel, and was a daughter of a London-based, jazz musician father.
Love was born in the Battersea area of London. Love was one of the first BritHop artists to be signed and distributed worldwide by a major record label. She is a well-respected figure in British Hip Hop, and made an impact with American Hip Hop audiences as a protégé of female American emcee Queen Latifah, as well as through her membership in the late 1980s/early 1990s Native Tongues. Monie Love (born Simone Gooden 2 July 1970) is an English rapper and radio personality in the United States.
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