April 25, 2022
Most Controversial Hip-Hop Album Covers Since 2 Live Crew
[ad_1] Over 30 years ago, Miami hip-hop group 2 Live Crew was arrested in Florida after a U.S. District Court Judge decided that their third album, As Nasty As They Wanna Be, was actually too nasty for the state of Florida. Despite having been on shelves since Feb. 7, 1989, ANAIWB became the first album to be declared legally obscene, a ruling that seems extraordinarily ridiculous in retrospect but was a landmark decision at the time. The album's cover, featuring four bikini-clad women standing over each of the group's four members, was one of the central points of the debate, as well as the album's big hit songs, "Me So Horny," “Dick Almighty” and “The Fuck Shop.”The...