Sweet Cookie

Given birth to and raised in Baltimore, Special Cookie can be an obscure feminine rapper who was simply mixed up in 1980s. Cookie hardly ever became well-known nationally, although she were able to attract some interest in her city and close by Washington, D.C. Favoring a womanly, sexy image rather than tough, combative picture ? la MC Lyte, Cookie appeared similar to an R&B vocalist when compared to a rapper — and actually, her music do have a whole lot of R&B charm. Much like Salt-N-Pepa and Whodini, Cookie showed that rap could possibly be melodic, industrial, and R&B-minded but nonetheless have an advantage. It had been around 1983 that Cookie fulfilled her coach Irving S. Lee, Jr., a Baltimore-based maker/songwriter who had written most of her materials and brought her towards the interest of the tiny Checkpoint label. In 1984, Checkpoint released Cookie’s debut solitary, “Heartbreaker”; the record do Alright locally, and Cookie became an starting act for main rappers like Run-D.M.C. and Whodini if they performed in Baltimore. After that, in 1987, Cookie authorized using the Fantasy-distributed Danya Information, which was performing quite nicely with Doug E. Refreshing at that time. “Mind YOUR COMPANY,” her 1st Danya solitary, became a little local hit, offering about 25,000 copies around Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Lee had written and created “Mind YOUR COMPANY” aswell as the rest on Cookie’s debut recording, Perform You Wanna Dance, which Danya released in past due 1987. The LP didn’t perform much beyond Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and Cookie under no circumstances recorded another album.