
A Legal Summary of the Controversial 2 Live Crew District Court Obscenity Case
Part I – Summary of Issue The issue that’ll be covered in this article is the 2 Live Crew obscenity case from 1990. The basic premise of the case is as follows: 2 Live Crew released an album called As Nasty As They Wanna Be (1989) that was declared obscene even though the album was released with an “Explicit Lyrics” advisory sticker and had an accompanying clean version of the album titled As Clean As They Wanna Be (Clean). Nasty As They Wanna Be was nonetheless investigated