POP/ROCK - April 18, 1990
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‘Nasty’ Banned Again: A Volusia County, Fla., grand jury found obscene Monday the album “As Nasty as They Wanna Be” by the Miami rap group 2 Live Crew, becoming the fifth county in the state to effectively ban the sexually explicit record. Jurors also ruled obscene the rap albums “The Iceberg,” by Ice-T, and “Eazy-Duz-It,” by Eazy-E. The decision would make it a felony to distribute the recordings to minors and a misdemeanor to sell or rent the material to adults, said State Atty. John Tanner.
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