POP/ROCK - April 20, 1990

2 Live Crude: The rap group 2 Live Crew performed their regular risque repertoire in a packed Gainesville, Fla., nightclub Thursday, despite a prosecutor’s threats to arrest the rappers on obscenity charges if they didn’t clean up their lyrics. The group had an attorney on standby during the one-night stand, and bail money available if Len Register, state attorney, had followed up on his threat. Register said he would have the band arrested if they played uncensored versions of songs such as “Me So Horny,” and “Move Somethin,” which have lyrics referring to sadomasochistic sex and violence against women. The prosecutor had called the crew’s songs “the most filthy thing I’ve ever encountered.”