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60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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The Band in the USA

In 1990 a Florida judge declared the two live crew album as nasty as they want to be to be legally obscene. A cataclysmic years long legal fracas ensued with two live crew and Henry Lewis Gates on one side and the notorious pro censorship duo of Florida governor Bob Martinez and Broward County sheriff Nick Navarro on the other. Two live crew would eventually prevail that obscenity ruling would eventually be overturned on appeal but in the meantime two live crew aired their grievances on their fourth album released in 1990 with zero ladies butts on the cover they called it band in the USA. And so early in this movie there are multiple scenes of bumbling aggrieved white dudes getting very confused and angry

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