Despite their name, the British group Stereo MC’s were never actually rappers. Instead, Stereo MC’s made a deeply hybridized form of club-pop in the late ’80s and early ’90s, and they found peers in the worlds of alt-rap and dance-rock. They toured with De La Soul, Living Colour, and Happy Mondays, and they had two songs, “Connected” and “Step It Up,” that were pretty big on American alt-rock radio in the early ’90s. I loved those songs. Stereo MC’s are still going, and no...
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Despite their name, the British group Stereo MC’s were never actually rappers. Instead, Stereo MC’s made a deeply hybridized form of club-pop in the late ’80s an... more info