Brother Marquis, one of the members of 2 Live Crew, died Monday at age 58.
Brother Marquis — as a member of 2 Live Crew alongside Fresh Kid Ice, Mr. Mixx, and Uncle Luke — made history with their expletive-filled 1989 album. The album sold over a million copies, and became the first album in history to be deemed legally obscene after a federal judge ruled the year after its release that it was an “appeal to dirty thoughts and the loins, not to the intellect and the mind.
The group’s members Uncle Luke, Fresh Kid Ice, and Marquis reunited in 2015 for a brief tour. In anat the time, Marquis recalled the group’s raunchy live shows, and an instance where he had to “jump out of the back window” of a hotel after humping a fan onstage.“Some shows got more out of hand than others. When we would go into some of the towns it would be local law enforcement that had a problem with it – there’d be protesters and right-wing organizations,” Marquis added at the time.
what he thought about music being more suggestive than what he was arrested for 25 years prior, Marquis said it didn’t bother him. “They did what they did to us but we fought and won, for rappers and singers and everybody to have the freedom to say whatever they want in their material,” he toldActor Mamie Laverock Is 'Doing Well' and 'Out of Her Big Surgeries' After Falling Five Stories From BalconyTo help keep your account secure, please log-in again.
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