TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of 2 Live Crew
2 Live Crew
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
1.8091
2 Live Crew Album Rankings
2
Uncle Lukeand company have made a career out of Miami bass/electro that's as raw, funky, and unforgivingly sexually explicit as humanly possible.
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3
Althoughthe 2 Live Crew's debut album,2 Live Is What We Are, went gold and sold more than 500,000 copies in the U.S., the LP wasn't without its detractors.
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4
When Florida attorney Jack Thompson did everything he could to have the X-rated music of the 2 Live Crew outlawed, his assault on the First Amendment led many free-speech advocates to take up the grou
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5
Back-to-back titles "Suck Good Dick" and "Suck My Dick" elegantly sum up the Crew's thematic range.
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6
Back in 1989, when I first heardAs Nasty As They Wanna Befrom 2 Live Crew, I found that album to be hilarious - who would take this stuff seriously?Obviously, the answer is clear: 2 Live Crew took it
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8
This live document would hardly make those who missed this Austin, Texas, show feel deprived, but the crowd is lively and does add some punch (especially on the frequent call-and-response numbers) to
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9
Few musical genres are as constricting as Miami bass, and few bands are as unambitious or as seemingly disposable as 2 Live Crew.
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19
Uncle Luke and company have made a career out of Miami bass/electro that's as raw, funky, and unforgivingly sexually explicit as humanly possible.
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21
There was a time when many New York hip-hoppers refused to believe that rappers from Miami could record a gold or platinum album or give them any real competition.
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25
Although Luther Campbell is long gone, 2 Live Crew remain the same, turning out the same lewd rhymes and bass-heavy grooves as they did in the eight-six.
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34
[Also included is a random bonus disc from the warehouse of Lil Joe Records.
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35
[Also included is a random bonus disc from the warehouse of Lil Joe Records.
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