How Nasty Is Nasty?

By PAUL GRAY/

Just how often can even the fastest rapper describe oral sex or genitalia on a 79-minute album? More often than you would think possible, according to Focus on Family, an evangelical group that made a bluenosed and bug-eyed tabulation of the vulgarities in 2 Live Crew's controversial, hot-selling album As Nasty as They Wanna Be. It's dirty work, but somebody had to do it.

Category Number of references . . . and per min.

Use of the F word 226 2.8

Use of bitch 163 2.0

Genitalia (male and female) 117 1.4

Descriptions of oral sex 87 1.1

Buttocks (mostly female) 42 0.5

With reporting by David E. Thigpen