Fresh Kid Ice — founding member of controversial Hip Hop group 2 Live Crew — has reportedly passed away. According to the group’s manager, he died in a Miami hospital at 7:50 a.m. on Thursday (July 13) due to a medical condition. It’s unclear what that condition is at this time.
Formed in 1983, 2 Live Crew originally consisted of Kid Ice, DJ Mr. Mixx and Amazing Vee. Luther Campbell, better known as Uncle Luke or Luke Skyywalker, didn’t join the group until after they were established as a California Hip Hop crew, but he was present on 2 Live Crew’s 1986 debut, The 2 Live Crew Is What We Are.
Kid Ice, whose real name was Christopher Wong Won, was long considered a pioneer for Asian rappers. He would routinely go by the moniker “The Chinaman,” named after his 1992 debut solo album of the same name.
Campbell quickly took to Twitter to express his condolences.
“My condolence goes out to the family of Chris Wong Wong Fresh Kid Ice of the 2 Live Crew who just passed away,” he wrote. “We lost a legend.”
2 Live Crew gained notoriety due to its sexually explicit style of rap on classic albums like 1989’s As Nasty As They Want To Be, which became the first album declared legally obscene. Consequently, they dropped Banned In The U.S.A. in 1990.
In 1994, the writers of Roy Orbison’s 1965 hit “Oh, Pretty Woman” took 2 Live Crew to the Supreme Court after the group sampled the song for As Clean As They Want To Be. A judge ruled in the the crew’s favor and deemed its parody as fair use.
Kid Ice is the only member of 2 Live Crew to appear on all eight of their studio albums.
Several artists have taken to social media to remember Kid Ice, including Juicy J, Rick Ross and Jermaine Dupri.
HipHopDX sends its condolences to Kid Ice’s family and friends.
so if rick ross is a giant fraud, does that mean his tweet is also a lie and solely being used to procure income?
RIO to the legend
Ppl of all ages regardless of your status in life please make sure to go to the doctor at least every 6 months so you can be on top of your health. You would hate to know you got stage 4 cancer and your under the age of 50. Ppl get it together. Too many of us dying b/c we refuse to go the doctors office. Just saying
Or how about you become a vegan and meditate to take away the stress.
2LiveWho? sounds lame as fuck where’s Mr. Capone-E, Mr. Criminal, Brownside, Lady Pinks? fuck that lame ass roster foo wheres Hi-Power ENT? Without chicanos in the rap game half the style wouldnt exists, none of u foos would be wearing cortezs, long socks, driving lowriders with switches, wearing locs, and flannels… most of you lames would be wearing bell bottoms with high afros dancing to disco, fucking lames!!
no frost?
fuck that fake ass chavala!!
who indicts themselves on wax? i just know he was on the scene 25 yrs.
Mexican (or Chicano) rap is by FAR the worst genre of rap, lol. Their timing, delivery and rhythm are always SOOOO goddamn off, lol. Now GOOD Mexican emcees, with actual RHYTHM and BARS, etc.. would include the likes of 2Mex, Xololanxinco, Tha Mexikanz (for those that remember) Sick Jacken, B-Real… But no Mr. This or Lil’ That, lol… shit is wack foo.
good comment. and names. +1
does immortal technique partially qualify?
First there was a bunch of Fuck Somewhere crybabies, then randomly typing ass WEZZOAST CIZZOAST shithead came, now all of a sudden we got this fucktard. Can’t wait to see what’s next.
Damn rest in peace. seems like god is only interested in rappers like wtf
He was the stand out member because if his voice …like Pimp C….
RIP Fresh Kid Ice