News - 23/01/2012

2 Live Crew are back

2 Live Crew are back

Rap and hip-hop selling champions 2 Live Crew have reunited and will tour again this summer. Rapper and producer Luther Campbell broke the news on Saturday, at the Sundance Film Festival - where he is promoting a short film called "The Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke".

"I just can't wait to just start practicing. That's going to be a blast,” Campbell (51) told AP, "We're going to perform the songs and everybody's going to be excited. Some of the older people of our generation will be able to tell their kids, 'You're staying home tonight, we're going to see 2 Live Crew and shake our booty!'".

2 Live Crew’s 1989 album "As Nasty as They Wanna Be" gained notoriety as the target of a national anti-obscenity campaign, which culminated in the arrest of three of the group’s members in 1990. They were soon acquitted of the obscenity charges, partly on the strength of expert testimony from Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The controversial album ended up selling more than two million copies, but the group’s popularity faded with subsequent albums, and members gradually went their separate ways.





 

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