2 Live Crew's Fresh Kid Ice, RIP

Fresh Kid Ice (real name Christopher Wong Won) of the raunchy veteran rap group 2 Live Crew has passed away at age 53. Rolling Stone reports:

Christopher Wong Won, a.k.a. Fresh Kid Ice, the pioneering Asian rapper and co-founder of the influential Miami hip-hop group 2 Live Crew, died Tuesday at the age of 53. 2 Live Crew’s longtime manager Debo confirmed Wong Won’s death to Rolling Stone. According to Debo, the cause of death was a “medical condition,” but the rep declined to elaborate.

Fellow 2 Live Crew member Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell wrote on Twitter, “My condolence goes out to the family Chris Wong Won Fresh Kid Ice of the 2 Live Crew who just passed away people we lost a legend.”

2 Live Crew rose to prominence in the late Eighties with a rumbling Miami bass sound packed with samples and hyper-sexualized lyrics that helped them sell millions of records and earn the ire of politicians and family advocacy groups. Their 1989 album, As Nasty As They Wanna Be, was so controversial, a Florida judge ruled it obscene, leading to both the arrest of a record store owner who refused to stop selling the album and Campbell and Won after a live show. Eventually, the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals overturned the obscenity ruling and the Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal.

You can read the rest of the RS article here.

Rest in peace to Fresh Kid Ice. Listen to some vintage 2 Live Crew below: