When Florida attorney Jack Thompson did everything he could to have the X-rated music of the 2 Live Crew outlawed, his assault on the First Amendment led many free-speech...
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A year after N.W.A. and Too Short significantly raised the bar for sexually explicit rap in 1988 with Straight Outta Compton and Born to Mack, respectively, the 2 Live Crew...
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Uncle Luke and company have made a career out of Miami bass/electro that's as raw, funky, and unforgivingly sexually explicit as humanly possible. This collection takes the...
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Although the 2 Live Crew's debut album, 2 Live Is What We Are, went gold and sold more than 500,000 copies in the U.S., the LP wasn't without its detractors. Some New York...
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Full of the low-minded humor that made this Miami outfit notorious throughout the country, Greatest Hits does contain the best material 2 Live Crew ever recorded; it is all...
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There was a time when many New York hip-hoppers refused to believe that rappers from Miami could record a gold or platinum album or give them any real competition. That was...
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This live document would hardly make those who missed this Austin, Texas, show feel deprived, but the crowd is lively and does add some punch (especially on the frequent...
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The Crew was showing growth on tracks like the safe-sex "Who's Fuckin' Who?," which probably made its break-up inevitable. The most consistent Crew album musically (the...
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The Crew was showing growth on tracks like the safe-sex "Who's Fuckin' Who?," which probably made its break-up inevitable. The most consistent Crew album musically (the...
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More important as an historical document than a musical one, this 80-minute double-set showed the Crew at its best (the catchy "Me So Horny") and its worst (the filler is...
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A year after N.W.A. and Too Short significantly raised the bar for sexually explicit rap in 1988 with Straight Outta Compton and Born to Mack, respectively, the 2 Live Crew...
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2 Live Crew has released enough compilations to choke a horse, so what is one more in the scheme of things? This showcases songs that were either on movie soundtracks or...
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2 Live Crew has released enough compilations to choke a horse, so what is one more in the scheme of things? This showcases songs that were either on movie soundtracks or...
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Although Luther Campbell is long gone, 2 Live Crew remain the same, turning out the same lewd rhymes and bass-heavy grooves as they did in the eight-six. Which means, of...
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Although Luther Campbell is long gone, 2 Live Crew remain the same, turning out the same lewd rhymes and bass-heavy grooves as they did in the eight-six. Which means, of...
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Full of the low-minded humor that made this Miami outfit notorious throughout the country, Greatest Hits does contain the best material 2 Live Crew ever recorded; it is all...
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