Influential hip-hop group 2 Live Crew has lost an integral member. Brother Marquis, whose real name was Mark Ross, died at age 58, the group announced Monday on social media.
Influential hip-hop group 2 Live Crew has lost an integral member. Brother Marquis, whose real name was Mark Ross, died at age 58, the group announced Monday on social media. A cause of death wasn’t provided. Brother Marquis was one of the most notable members of the Miami hip-hop group that found commercial success while courting controversy beginning in the late 1980s. The troupe was often criticized for its sexually explicit lyrics and album covers, and their fourth album, Banned in the USA, released in 1990, was « the first rap album to feature the black-and-white ‘parental advisory explicit content’ label, » per USA Today.
