[2] She has hosted radio programs on free-form WFMU since 1997,[3] and worked as an A&R consultant for Queen Latifah and Martina McBride.
In the 19 years she spent at Tommy Boy, ... Lynch helped launch the careers of major acts, including Afrika Bambaataa, De La Soul, [and] Naughty by Nature.
"[4] Tommy Boy Records was founded by Tom Silverman in 1981, and Lynch was his first employee, hired in December of that year.
[4][5][6] "[Lynch] can vividly remember the night in March [1982] when she drove with [Silverman] to the basement studios of WHBI-FM to deliver the [new album by Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force containing the song "Planet Rock"] to hip-hop DJs Mr. Magic and Marly [sic] Marl, not really grasping that the song would help to launch a sonic revolution whose effects are still being felt today," wrote Randy Reiss at MTV News.
"[7] Lynch recalled: "Very soon after [dropping it off], we began hearing ["Planet Rock"] pouring out of windows as Mr. Magic broke the record.
However, as chronicled by the magazine Complex, "After some fallow years, Tommy Boy experienced a rap resurgence, in no small way attributable to the cool aesthetic of [the label's] fashionable president, Monica Lynch, who opened her doors to all kinds of artistic expression.
"[8] She signed Queen Latifah and De La Soul, and played a key role in the development of the careers of various artists and executives, including RuPaul, Dante Ross, Naughty by Nature, Coolio, House of Pain, Stetsasonic, Force M.D.
She also helped to produce its popular compilation and soundtrack albums, including MTV Party to Go, Jersey Drive, Nothing to Lose, and others.
"I thought the idea of a drag queen recording artist would be great if the music was there," she told Paper magazine.
One of her last roles at the label was as a producer of the two-volume film soundtrack compilation albums 54 (Music From The Miramax Motion Picture).
"After 16 years at [Tommy Boy], she was burned out by the music business's overwhelming commercial imperative, as well as its constant extramusical annoyances," wrote Jaime Wolf in the New York Times in a station profile from 1999.