“What is this? Is this not America? This is not China! This is not Russia! This is not the place where they brought down the wall! This is America. We have the right to say what we wanna say, we have the right to do what we wanna do, and what I do in my house you might not do in your house, so what I do in my house is my business.
“And the simple fact of it all is that we are bonded by the First Amendment. We have the freedom of expression, we have the freedom of choice, and you—Chinese, Black, green, purple, Jew—you have the right to listen to whoever you want to, and even the 2 Live Crew.
“So all you right-wingers, left-wingers, bigots, Communists—there is a place for you in this world, because this is the land of the free—the home of the brave—and 2 Live is what we are.”
—2 Live Crew, “Banned in the U.S.A.” (1990)
An unusually safe(r)-for-work video from 2 Live Crew’s follow-up to As Nasty as They Wanna Be.
Happy Independence Day, all you right-wingers, left-wingers, bigots, and Communists! And the rest of you lot, too. See you on the eighth.