"We lost a legend": 2 Live Crew rapper Fresh Kid Ice dies aged 53

The 2 Live Crew rapper, real name Christopher Wong Won, died of an undisclosed condition in Miami

Fresh Kid Ice and and the group became poster children for First Amendment Rights after the album was the first ever to be labeled legally obscene by the government. While hardly groundbreaking musically, the album thrust the group into the center of a whirlwind of controversy over the lyrics to songs like "Me So Horny" and "The F-- Shop." He and Campbell were arrested in 1990 after a live performance that police deemed to be obscene and lewd. The group responded by naming their following album Banned in the U.S.A. and rode the controversy for the next couple of years, but its popularity gradually declined and the obscenity label was overturned in 1992. The rapper also spent time in the armed forces, serving four years in the US Air Force, before getting into music. Campbell left the group acrimoniously in the 1990s, although Fresh Kid Ice carried on and is the only member to have appeared on all of 2 Live Crew's albums. Later in his career, he formed his own label, Chinaman Records.