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Play It Again, Shan by MC Shan

Play It Again, Shan

Release Date: 4/24/1990

Recording Date: 6/1989

Tracks: 15

Length: 01:03:41 Hrs

Label: Cold Chillin'

Type: CD,CS

Genre/Styles:
Old-School Rap, Golden Age

Album Tracks (15)

Song Title
Length
1.
Ain't It Good to You
00:00
2.
I Ran the Game
00:00
3.
Ain't We Funkin'
00:00
4.
It Ain't a Hip Hop Record
00:00
5.
Death Was Quite a Surprise
00:00
6.
Walking on Sunshine
00:00
7.
Rock Stuff
00:00
8.
Clap Your Hands
00:00
9.
Music You Can Dance to
00:00
10.
Time for Us to Defend Ourselves
00:00
11.
It Don't Mean a Thing
00:00
12.
I Want to Thank You
00:00
13.
Got to Be Funky
00:00
14.
Mic Line
00:00
15.
How I Feel About You
00:00

What the Critics Say

Along with Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie and Roxanne Shante, MC Shan was one of the rappers who put Cold Chillin' Records on the map. The New Yorker never had a multi-platinum seller, but he was an entertaining and often clever MC whose solid rhyming skills earned him a medium-sized following in the mid- to late '80s (especially on the East Coast). While Play It Again, Shan isn't outstanding, the CD has quite a few strong points, including "It Don't Mean a Thing" (which draws on the Duke Ellington classic), "Death Was Quite a Surprise" (an account of a youth who gets sick of working for minimum wage, becomes a drug dealer and pays with his life) and the anti-drug commentary "Rock Stuff." The only weak offering is "I Want to Thank You," a cliched Latin freestyle tune that aims for the TKA/Stevie B crowd and proves that Shan should stick to rap. ~ Alex Henderson, Rovi

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