Fresh Kid Ice van 2 Live Crew overleden

RDJ134 13 juli 2017 om 17:35 uur

Via Twitter (tnx aan EricvdWoude) kwam ik er net achter dat Fresh Kid Ice van de 2 Live Crew is overleden aan de gevolgen van een ziekte. De 2 Live Crew lifte mee op de Miami Bass die eind jaren tachtig gaande was en begin jaren negentig bracht deze rap formatie de klassieker Me So Horney, We Want Some Pussy en hun album As Nasty As They Wanna Be was zelfs een tijd verboden. Dus wij van Eigenwereld eren deze held door de volume open te trekken en op play van de onderstaande video's te rammen en luidkeels mee te zingen.


Fresh Kid Ice, a founding member of the rap troupe 2 Live Crew who was widely regarded as one of the first major Asian rappers in America, has died, according to colleagues and news sources.

He was 53.

The rapper, whose real name was Christopher Wong Won, died in a Miami hospital Thursday after suffering an undisclosed medical condition,

Fresh Kid Ice and the 2 Live Crew burst into the Miami hip hop scene in the mid-1980s and quickly polarized listeners by taking sexually graphic rap lyrics to another level.

The group, which Fresh Kid Ice formed with fellow artists Mr. Mixx and Amazing Vee, churned out explicit hits including "Me So Horny" and "Throw the D."

Their most popular album, "As Nasty As They Wanna Be," was particularly polarizing and, a year after its 1989 release, became the first album to ever be deemed legally obscene by the United States government.













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