POP/ROCK - May 15, 1990

2 Live Crew in Court: The debate over whether the lyrics of a recording by the million-selling rap group 2 Live Crew are obscene moved to a higher level Monday with the issue’s first airing in federal court in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. U.S. District Judge Jose Gonzalez was asked to determine whether “As Nasty as They Wanna Be,” which has been removed from store shelves in several Florida counties, should also be banned in Broward County. The first witness to testify, Broward Detective Sgt. Mark Wichner, said he found the recording “explicit and degrading to the female sex.”