Mark Dee (born Mark Douglas Ollivierre) is an awesome rapper hailing out of Long Island, New York. At the time, he was 18 years old, and this is the only album he did for MCA Records back in 1990. In my opinion, it's friggin' awesome. In fact, it's out of print today, and I got my copy in the thrift shop. This album is considerably rare to find on vinyl and cassette (the cassette version is the rarest of all), because the CD was a very prominent format back then. He would later change his stage name to Minnesota Slimz and become a member of underground hip-hop group Soul Kid Klik.

Nowadays, Minnesota Slimz has changed his name again. This time, he's known as "M.A.R.K.". As you can clearly see, he's been in and out of the hip-hop scene for such a long time. He has incredible talent as both a rapper and a lyricist.

Mark Dee dubbed 'All in a Day's Work' "sample free, and still dope," and it's permeated with a unique style inspired by funk & new jack swing without directly resembling either. I've always loved this album, and yet repeated listens have made it grow on me over the years so much that it's tough to put all the nuance behind his wordsmithing into something so simple as a YouTube description ... let's just say the man has a versatile, free-flowing style, effortlessly rhyming on various extremely practical topics, from DEEP love lessons to the power of the MIND, just as effortlessly as he can compete in a club environment -- all part of an effort to expand the appeal and power of rap music to new kinds of audiences. This album is STILL resonant more than 30 years after release. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I have.

Did you know...
On "So Deep" Mark Dee shares the mic with a young, burgeoning Keith Murray ("Do Damage").
Mark Dee contributed a rap to Marc Nelson's 1991 version of Marvin Gaye's "I Want You".

Needledrop taken here from the original US pressing on MCA 6374.

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