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3 unusual facts about Monie Love


DJ Skitz

Estelle approached Skitz to create the tune, thinking it would be successful due to the 1990 single, "Ladies First" by Queen Latifah and Monie Love and because nothing similar had been made in the UK since the Cookie Crew in the 1980s.

Jade Trini Goring

Goring later worked and toured as a background singer with female rapper Monie Love on her 1991 Monie Love Tour.

Monika Kruse

A bit later she took the chance and started as product manager for the Chrysalis Records label and cared about bands and artists such as Gang Starr or Monie Love.


DJ Pogo

He was part of the Jus Bad crew, which featured Monie Love, Sparki and MC Mell'O', who released the single "Free Style / Proud" (Tuff Groove, 1988).

Kool DJ Red Alert

Red, who is of Antiguan heritage, also had a small hip hop management company in the late 1980s called Red Alert Productions, which managed the careers of Native Tongues acts such as the Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, and Monie Love.


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