Brother Marquis, the rapper and longtime member of hip-hop group 2 Reside Crew, has died at 58.
His dying was introduced on 2 Reside Crew’s Instagram account on Monday evening. The put up didn’t point out a reason for dying or the place the rapper died.
Based in 1984 in Riverside, CA, 2 Reside Crew discovered its most well-known line-up after transferring to Miami, the place in 1986 Brother Marquis (aka Mark Ross) joined Christopher Wong Received (Contemporary Child Ice), Luther Campbell (Luke Skyywalker); and David Hobbs (Mr. Mixx).
That line-up would see the group’s best fame and impression within the late Eighties and early-mid Nineties, maybe reaching a peak with the 1989 album As Nasty as They Wanna Be, which drew reward from followers and critics however condemnation from commentators and regulation enforcement for its sexually express language.
In 1990, a Florida undercover police officer attended a membership efficiency, prompting misdemeanor obscenity costs to be filed in opposition to the group. Three of the group’s members, together with Brother Marquis, have been charged with misdemeanor obscenity costs. The lads have been discovered not responsible by a jury.
Additionally on the time, a court docket dominated that As Nasty as They Wanna Be was legally obscene, a primary in U.S. historical past for an album. The ruling was overturned on attraction.
Born Mark Ross on April 4, 1966, in Rochester, N.Y., Marquis frolicked in each Los Angeles and Miami earlier than becoming a member of 2 Reside Crew in 1986. His file debut with the group was the The two Reside Crew Is What We Are in 1986. He additionally appeared on the albums Transfer Somethin’ (1988), As Nasty As They Wanna Be (1989), Banned in the usA. (1990) and As Nasty as They Wanna Be Half II (1991).
2 Reside Crew disbanded within the mid-Nineties, however regrouped for reunion excursions within the 2000s, lastly calling it quits after the dying of Contemporary Child Ice in 2017.
Info on survivors of Brother Marquis was not instantly out there.