User talk:Thomas E Brooks

In 1991, The 2 Live Crew released the very first live rap album[citation needed], Live in Concert, and Sports Weekend, a full-length studio original. It peaked at #22 on The Billboard 200 and #19 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It did not gain the same sales level that they experienced with As Nasty As They Wanna Be. The 2 Live Crew members went their separate ways after this. Luke pursued his solo music career and other projects.

In 1992, Fresh Kid Ice released unreleased tracks from pre-Luke The 2 Live Crew, Deal with This under the name Rock on Crew, while Luke and Ice also released new solo albums, I Got Shit on My Mind and The Chinaman, respectively.[citation needed]

Mark "Brother Marquis" Ross co-starred alongside Fred Williamson in the film South Beach and started a new group with Aldrin "DJ Toomp" Davis, and Thomas "Ram" Brooks (The Saint) former members of Poison Clan, which was also signed to Campbell's label. Thomas later went back to his home town Marianna Fl to figure out what he was going to do with the rest of the album that was recorded by the group. They named the group 2 Nazty, and released the album "Indecent Exposure" on Attitude Records in 1993. The single was called "Can't Say I Love You," but it did not chart, and the group never released a second album. The single was a departure from the typical 2 Live nasty rhymes, and focuses on what a deep emotion love is, and how it should not be said to anyone lightly. The rest of the album sounds like The 2 Live Crew record, and focuses on sexual exploits of the members.

The hard feelings over the split of the The 2 Live Crew and Poisan Clan is apparent on the album, as Marquis is heard on the track "Interview" saying Thomas was fired from the group because he went and got his own lawyers to review the contracts that everybody signed and saw he was not getting credit or publishing for music that he produced such as the smash hit "Shake What Ya Mama Gave Ya" featuring JT Money it was documented Luther Camble owed Thomas 2 million dollars for the catalog and that the other members had no love for him. Thomas compared signing a deal with Skyywalker Records was signing your life away.[citation needed]