RIP but lets not start with this whole he was GOAT/Legend shyt. Dude was apart of a booty music group led by Luke.
I'm co signing this.......whenever I would speak on 2 Live Crew on this site i would get crickets.....no one was talking this fake goat shyt like they are now. smh.
One day i did a thread dedicated to 2 live crews music.....and i had a female twerk in her bra and panties to Luke for the coli..the weirdos and haters flagged my shyt in 15 minutes.
1st Let me start by saying that Luke is a way better emcee then French Montana....Proof is in the 2 Live crew live in Arizona album being IMO the best live Hip Hop album ever! (eat your heart out KRS) That Live album they did forces your ears to be glued to the radio because of the crazy sh*t that Luke says out of his mouth. They would do songs and Luke did the intermissions to set up the next song....and those intermissions were sick...Luke really had the gift for holding the crowds attention even if it was content of the lowest moral denominator. Now that i have you're attention I would like to speak on that 1 time where the legendary Rakim jacked Luke's style. The topic of 2 Live Crew being the ones who started all those videos with chicks gyrating like skanks in bathing suits.
Prior to 2 Live crew no one was getting away with those kind of videos.....Acknowledgment should go to the ones who started it all....Before Nelly's "Tip Drill" and Luda's "!! poppin" u had 2 Live Crews' "Me So Horny" and "Pop That coochie".....
At first MTV had no problem playing "Me So Horny" in 1989 as long as it was at night...and the version they played was different from the official video which was only available thru cable public acccess or The Box. But when the more raunchier un editted "Pop That coochie" dropped, that video was banned on MTV. Why? because women were in bathing suits gyrating likechick chicks, which is the norm now but back in 1991...That wasnt happening. I remember Ed Lover from Yo MTV Raps would always mention how they couldnt play that video as a tease.....BET banned the video as well(they also banned Me So Horny and pretty anything 2 Live Crew related until the mid 90's)......the only one playing that "Pop That Coochie" video was "the Box." It was around this same time that 2 Live Crew started influencing Hip Hop because Nice and Smooth put out an alternative remix of "Hip Hop Junkies" called the spanish fly remix which lyrically and visually wasnt as suggestive as "Pop That Coochie" but the bathing suits and gyrating was there. Then in 1992, Luke went solo and dropped the classic strip club track "I wanna rock" aka "doo doo brown"
So i switched it up and had her get naked instead .....with the intention of really pissing the haters and weirdos off ......flag this mother fukker
(.....2 Live Crew story continued)
The "I Wanna Rock" video was also banned by MTV and BET but by this time the flood gates were open. Sir Mix A Lot would put out "Baby Got back" which wasnt as raunchy but still suggestive and MTV only played that video at night. The miami based group The Dogs would release a video called "work it out" which looked exactly like a "pop that coochie" bite. Then something happened that real hip hop heads never saw coming. 2 Live Crew would go onto influence the god emcee Rakim in his comeback single and video "Dont Sweat The Technique" which included, you guessed it, women in bathing suits gyrating. Of course Rakims video was done with more class but the influence was there. By the end of 1992, 2 Live Crews influence was here to stay. Wrecks N Effect would put out "Rump Shaker" and the popularity of that video pretty much began the "women dancing half nak3d in bathing suits" trend in all future Hip Hop videos. Soon u had 2pacs "I get around" and MC Hammers "pumps in the bumps." 2 Live Crew went thru all types of legal troubles because of their music, including getting arrested for performing certain songs at shows down to having their albums considered illegal. People were actually getting arrested for selling a 2 Live Crew album. These boys put in work just so Hip Hop could have half nak3d women dancing likechicks in music videos. Its only right that we acknowledge these great pioneers.
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