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A slate of local artists literally will play for food Saturday night. It's not for themselves, though.

Wea re thinking that the fornication-fixated Philadelphia rapper Amanda Blank is a big fan of the Sex Pistols.

You'd think 2 Live Crew had pulled up to the drive-thru at the McDonald's in American Fork, Utah, where a group of teens so terrified one of the employees with their rapping that they were cited for being disorderly in public .

Here is the second installment in the series of "Bad Ideas In Hip-Hop." Last week, we examined an obscure, but not forgotten act, The White Boys .

Rap hit-maker Flo Rida hits Radford University on Saturday. Get show details . In this podcast, we talk about his recent trip overseas, opening shows for Beyonce Knowles and performing for U.S. armed forces, and about his own rump-shaking songs, including collaborations with Nelly Furtado and Wyclef Jean.

He was known as P-Man Sam. And as Sam Silvasteen. And he was involved in Miami's rap scene before 2 Live Crew put it on the map.

Midway through our interview Ted Beck gets up to go to the nearby bathroom - he purposely leaves the door open while he urinates.

In Washington, D.C., moments before the Million Man March in 1995, our neighbor across the hall, 'J.R.,' said, 'Our generation don't play that!' They would demand respectful treatment from law enforcement officials patrolling the march, he said.

In Washington, D.C., moments before the Million Man March in 1995, our neighbor across the hall, 'J.R.,' said, 'Our generation don't play that!' They would demand respectful treatment from law enforcement officials patrolling the march, he said.

In the 80s, 2 Live Crew brought Miami bass into junior high cafeterias and introduced many of Bostonist's generation to the ideas of being so horny and popping that coochie - and, indirectly, to the concept of misogyny.

During a news conference on Wednesday night, President Obama stood up for the prominent African-American Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.

SEE ALL MUSIC FEATURES RECOMMENDED TODAY: 2 LIVE CREW , Mohawk Miami sex rap turns over in an era of shock and awe.

A mix of electro, hip-hop and even some booty-bass hits the Valley this weekend as the Phoenix indie dance night Party Foul! celebrates one year of sweaty, crowded, exuberant parties.

Sergio Mendoza, the subject of this week's cover package, has electrified Tucson audiences with his own brand of "indie mambo." His group, Sergio Mendoza Y La Orkesta, covers a lot of original material, but also songs written and arranged by the great mambo icon, Perez Prado.

Any of the cats from the city who dominate radio today - Pitbull, Flo Rida, DJ Khaled - they have to give it up to the man first known as Trick Daddy Dollars.

June 10, 2009 @ 7:20 pm VIBE 365: June 10, 1990, 2 Live Crew Is Arrested On Obscenity Keith Murphy Remembering yesterday, one day at a time On June 10, 1990, two members of the controversial Miami bass rap act the 2 Live Crew were arrested on obscenity charges following a show at a Hollywood, Florida night club.