Genre: Rap
Hard Or Smooth
Wreckx-N-Effect
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Gangsters & Strippers
Too Short
Everyday Is Mother's Day
Full Force
Gangsta Rap (Special Edition)
Ice-T
Licensed To Ill
The Beastie Boys
Follow The Leader
Eric B. & Rakim
Mama Said Knock You Out
LL Cool J
Ain't A Damn Thing Changed
Nice & Smooth
Hot, Cool & Vicious
Salt-N-Pepa
Stone Cold Rhymin'
Young MC
Def Jam Classics, Vol.1
Various Artists
A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing
Black Sheep
The Best Of Kurtis Blow
Kurtis Blow
No rap group (save, perhaps, N.W.A) has stirred more controversy or provoked more heated debate than the 2 Live Crew. The furor over the graphic sexual content of their X-rated party rhymes -- specifically their 1989 album As Nasty as They Wanna Be -- was a major catalyst in making rap music a flash point for controversy and an easily visible target for self-appointed moral guardians. The fierce attacks on the group's First Amendment rights put many of their defenders in an awkward position -- passionately supporting their freedom of speech on the one hand, but often finding little artistic merit in their music. And they were indeed crude and coarse, and frequently misogynistic by most standards; even if they fit squarely into a tradition of raunchy, sexually explicit black comedy (Redd Foxx Read More
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