Youngest in Charge

Special Ed | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 8, 1989)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Profile
• ASIN: B000000CER
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #118,444 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Taxing

2. I Got It Made

3. I'm The Magnificent

4. Club Scene

5. Hoedown

6. Think About It

7. Ak-Shun

8. Monster Jam

9. The Bush

10. Fly M.C.

11. Heds And Dreds

12. I Got It Made (Businesslike Version)

Editorial Reviews

Traffic Entertainment in partnership with Sony Music Custom Marketing Group is proud to announce the re-release of Special Ed's debut full length Youngest In Charge. Originally released on Profile records in 1989, Youngest In Charge boasts a track list that includes such Hip Hop classics as "I Got It Made", "Taxing" and "Think About It "(remember the video with the hovercraft?). The album, produced entirely by Howie "Hitman" Tee, was released when Ed was just 16! This expanded reissue features eight tracks previously not available on CD and is complimented perfectly with a 16 page booklet featuring extensive liner notes from Brian Colemen (author of Rakim Told Me and Check The Technique). The booklet also includes alternative images from the original photo shoot provided by the original photographer Robert Lewis. This release is just the first in a series of reissues scheduled for 2009 by Traffic Entertainment in partnership with Sony Music Custom Marketing Group! --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly Underrated 1989 Classic, May 7, 2005

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Rahmel Strawberry "Music Conissour" (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Youngest in Charge (Audio CD)

I really don't know where I should start with this review...I can remember when i was 7 years old, My dad had just gotten home from work holding this cd in his hands with a grin on his face, then he put the cd in...I can remember dancing to how great this cd was. To this day one of my favorite hip hop songs of all times is "I Got It Made". Its too bad that this album was forgotten, it deserves to be among the classics like "It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back", "Straight Outta Compton", "All Eyez On Me", "Ready To Die", and etc. So the final thing I wunna say to all u young hip hop heads out there trying to figure out whether to get this joint or not. Cop It and discover the REAL sense of Hip Hop Musick.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best hip-hop albums of all time, December 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Youngest in Charge (Audio CD)

This is an album I will never forget. When I think of the year of 89 many of these songs come to mind. This is just a young rapper with strictly tight rhymes. Not the hard-core, gangsta, strong base-lines or kick drums (although a little of all of that is there),his gig was just out-rhyming someone; and he out-did most in that era and even more today.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Out of Print!, April 30, 2002

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Akbar (Denver, Colorado United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Youngest in Charge (Audio CD)

I have been loking for this classic a long time. 80's were the groundbreaking for some really tight artist that are still being sampled today. Of them all I liked this one. I got it made and "akshun" along with a lot of other was cool. Not all of the cuts were good, but the ones that were, have me looking for this CD everywhere. Shaq did a remake of I got it made and it was worth getting his CD jus to here that funky beat again!