Alison Clarkson, AKA Betty Boo, singer-songwriter
When I was 17, I was in a female rap trio called the She Rockers. We saw LL Cool J and Public Enemy play Hammersmith Odeon when the 1987 Def Jam tour came to London. Afterwards, we saw Public Enemy in McDonald’s. We went “Oi!” and told them we were rappers, so they filmed us doing a freestyle rap, right there in McDonald’s.
The next thing we knew, we were flying to New York to work with Public Enemy’s Professor Griff. After that, I did the rap on the Beatmasters hit Hey DJ! / I Can’t Dance (To That Music You’re Playing), which did so
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