Record Shop Clerk Arrested In Sale of ‘Explicit’ Rap Tape

A teen-age record store clerk is facing a felony charge for allegedly selling the sexually explicit rap recording “As Nasty as They Wanna Be” to an 11-year-old girl, officials said.

Chauncey Reese, a 19-year-old employee at Sarasota’s Tracks record store, was arrested Thursday on a complaint by the girl’s stepmother about the recording by the Miami Group 2 Live Crew.

Conviction on the charge of selling harmful materials to minors carries a maximum prison sentence of five years and a $5,000 fine, said Assistant State Atty. Donald Hartery Jr.

Hartery said he filed the felony charge, rather than a misdemeanor count of obscenity, after listening to the tape given to police by the girl’s stepmother, Ann Skolnick.

“The tape is just out-and-out sex,” said Skolnick, 35. “They use words like anal sex and how women want it. A child does not need to be hearing that.”

The tape bears a label warning of explicit language in the lyrics, Skolnick said.

Reese, who is accused of selling the tape to the girl in January, was released on his own recognizance. Telephone messages left late Thursday at his home were not immediately answered.