Mark D. Ross, the rapper greatest generally known as Brother Marquis of the Miami hip-hop group 2 Stay Crew, has died. He was 58.
Ross’ dying was introduced Monday on the group’s Instagram account, with no particulars about how or when he died.
“Mark Ross AKA Brother Marquis of the two Stay crew has handed away,” the put up stated. The group’s supervisor DJ Debo confirmed Ross’ dying to Rolling Stone and TMZ however didn’t instantly reply Tuesday to The Instances’ request for remark.
Born Mark D. Ross in Rochester, N.Y., in April 1966, he moved to Los Angeles as a teen. He crossed paths with rapper Rodney-O in junior excessive and the 2 fashioned the Warning Crew, which yielded the singles “Westside Storie” and “Rhythm Rock.” He joined up with 2 Stay Crew in 1986, when he was 19.
Together with Mr. Mixx, J.T. Cash and Contemporary Child Ice, Brother Marquis comprised the influential hip-hop outfit that within the Eighties gained a status for its Miami bass sound, sexually express lyrics and authorized points. The group, based by Mr. Mixx (David Hobbs), Contemporary Child Ice (Christopher Wong Received) and Superb Vee (Yuri Vielot), grew to become the primary to obtain a “Parental Advisory: Specific Content material” label on an album because of the sexually express lyrics on “Banned in the united statesA.” Their 1989 music “Me So Attractive” was their largest hit, and the album, “As Nasty as They Wanna Be,” bore the infamous honor of being declared legally obscene within the U.S. by a federal choose a yr later.
2 Stay Crew members J.T. Cash, left, Brother Marquis, second from left, Mr. Mixx (David Hobbs) and Contemporary Child Ice.
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In 1990, the group’s surreptitiously recorded nightclub live performance was the topic of a court docket case over crude and graphic sexual language that was intently watched as a check of 1st Modification rights, particularly by the music trade and performers. The obscenity ruling was overturned in 1992, effectively after the album went platinum.
The group, additionally identified for parodying Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the united statesA” and Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Fairly Girl,” cut up within the Nineteen Nineties however reunited within the 2000s. Ross additionally joined Ice-T on his “Residence Invasion” monitor “99 Issues.”
Contemporary Child Ice (Wong Received) died in 2017.
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