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February 15, 2002

Naughty Get Pink, Latifah

After a three-year absence, Naughty by Nature return with star-studded "iicons"
February 17, 1999

Treach is Acting Up

Naughty By Nature’s front-man lands a recurring role on HBO’s "Oz"
January 11, 1999

19-Naughty-Nine

Naughty By Nature return with a new album and a bevy of guest-stars

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Iicons

New Jersey hip-hop vets Naughty by Nature have been making heavy-rotation rap for more than a decade, setting the stage for the genre's Top Forty bum-rush with singalong hits "O.P.P." and "Hip Hop Hooray" in the early Nineties. Their fifth album, Iicons, finds Treach and Vinnie (producer Kay Gee is...

2002 RS: 3of 5 Stars

Nineteen Naughty Nine: Nature's Fury

1999

Poverty's Paradise

1995

19 Naughty III

1993

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Biography

During the early '90s, the talented, pop-friendly rap trio Naughty by Nature helped to connect rap's old and new(er) schools by turning out irresistible, sample-laden hits ("O.P.P.") and verbose, streetwise rhymes. Poverty's Paradise is an invite to the actual block party, the perfect straddle between pop smarts and street cred, as MCs Treach and Vinnie (a.k.a. Vin Rock) power-rhyme their way...

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