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| Banned in the U.S.A.: The Luke LP | ||||
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| Studio album by Luke featuring the2 Live Crew | ||||
| Released | July 24, 1990 (1990-7-24) | |||
| Recorded | 1989–1990 | |||
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| Length | 54:39 | |||
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| Luke featuring the2 Live Crew chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Banned in the U.S.A. | ||||
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Banned in the U.S.A.: The Luke LP (later reissued asBanned in the U.S.A.) is the fourthstudio album by Americanhip hop group2 Live Crew, released on July 24, 1990, byLuke andAtlantic Records. Originally credited asLuke'ssolo album, it included the hits "Do the Bart" and "Banned in the U.S.A.". It was also the very first release to bear theRIAA-standardParental Advisory warning sticker.[2]
Theeponymous title single is a reference to the decision in a court case that 2 Live Crew's previous albumAs Nasty As They Wanna Be wasobscene (the decision would later be overturned on appeal).Bruce Springsteen granted the group permission tointerpolate his song "Born in the U.S.A." for it.[3]
Displeased over the decision of Florida GovernorBob Martinez who, on being asked to examine the album, decided it was obscene and recommended local law enforcement take action against it and over the subsequent action ofsheriffNick Navarro ofBroward County, Florida, who arrested local record store owners on obscenity charges for selling the group's albums and the subsequent arrest of members of the group on obscenity charges, the group included the song "Fuck Martinez", which also includes multiple repetitions of the phrase "fuck Navarro". The group found two other men with the same names, and had them sign releases, as they thought that this action would make it impossible for Martinez or Navarro to sue them. "Fuck Martinez" is not included onSpotify's stream ofBanned in the U.S.A.; however, it is included on Uncle Luke's compilationBooty Calls & Chants.
There were also VHS tape and LaserDisc releases of the group discussing the ban. The album was briefly parodied on a skit ofIn Living Color in which Campbell, spoofed byDavid Alan Grier, is challenged to compose a children's song. Struggling to make a good song, he manages to come up with unoffensive composures until the last line where he must rhyme the word "tucked". The skit is cut off by a narrator saying "The following line is banned in the USA".
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