The controversy lead to the album going double platinum.įresh Kid Ice, would make two more best selling albums with 2 Live Crew before disbanding in 1991. The group became notorious, influential, and legendary in 1989 with their third album As Nasty As They Wanna Be, along with its hit single " Me So Horny", proved more controversial still, leading to legal troubles getting obscenity charges for both 2 Live Crew and retailers selling the album (all charges were eventually overturned on appeal in the 1990s). Fresh Kid Ice and his group mate became American rap superstars of that area. The 2 Live Crew's debut album The 2 Live Crew Is What We Are (1986), and their second Move Somethin' (1988) both went Gold and were comedic albums with sexually explicit lyrics. Shortly after, Campbell would join the group as the hype man and Brother Marquis took over Amazing Vee's place. It is rumored that he coined the term Miami Bass as well. The fact that he was alone made him the first Miami Bass Rapper. At the time Fresh Kid Ice was the only MC in the group and featured on the track. They then released the lyrically sexually charged single called "Throw The D" in January 1986 gave a permanent blueprint to how future Miami bass songs were written and produced. Vielot would quit the group shortly after. Īfter releasing a successful independent single, the group caught the attention of a Florida-based music promoter and DJ named Luther Campbell invited the group to work with him there. In many of his raps, he gave himself the nickname Chinaman. Wong won would become known as the first Asian rapper, his ethnicity is Afrochinese, his family is mostly from Hong Kong and both of his grandmothers were African. Mixx" Hobbs, and two rappers Yuri "Amazing Vee" Vielot, and Christopher Fresh Kid Ice Wong Won (1964-2017). Air Force, while stationed at March Air Force Base in Riverside, California, formed the rap group 2 Live Crew known to have popularized Miami Bass, a subgenre of hip hop music. In the meantime (1984) in the US, three members of the U.S. Local parks and malls in and around the Metro Manila area became mainstays and training grounds for future recording artists. Hip hop films such as Wild Style (1982), Breakin' (1984) and Krush Groove (1985) were also major influences and as early as 1982 local break-dancing crews were starting to emerge. They are known to be the first rap records from Asia. In 1980, singer and stand-up comedian Dyords Javier would record "Na Onseng Delight", and Vincent Dafalong "Ispraken Delight". The towns and barrios surrounding the numerous American military bases that were scattered throughout that country such as Clark Air Base in Angeles City and Subic Bay Naval Base in Olongapo were among the earliest to be exposed to the culture as contact with African-American, Filipino American and Latino servicemen resulted in some of the earliest exposure the locals had to the new musical genre. Numerous cassette tapes, videos, books and magazines concerning hip hop issues and popular rap artists would be sent out by Filipinos to family members back in the islands. The Philippines is known to have had the first hip-hop music scene in Asia since the early 1980s, largely due to the country's historical connections with the United States The intimate relationship between hip-hop culture and the large Filipino American community along the United States West Coast naturally resulted in the exportation of rap music back to the Philippines.
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