According to HipHopDX, Naughty By Nature’s early-nineties endorsement money has dried up and the hip-hop honorees will finally be releasing a new album. Due out later this year, the trios reunited return to music will feature Read the rest of this entry »

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In celebration of VH1′s Hip-Hop Honors show , The Crew is taking a look at a few of the honorees & their impact on Hip-Hop culture. This entry, Dirty Jerz representatives Naughty By Nature.

What makes a group successful? Is it classic albums, a slew of singles, commercial play with street reverence and high mark sales? If so, Naughty By Nature fits the bill with Hip-Hop’s upper crust. But it’s that harder to grasp the stratosphere where Treach, Vin and Kay Gee excel beyond mixed company.

The only way to solidify a spot in music industry outer space is with intangibles. There are no numbers, pie charts or bar graphs used to gauge legends. It’s not the weekend Sound Scan numbers or iTunes downloads. It’s the facts – like Treach wrote Kriss Kross’ “Jump” – that will make you remember an artist forever. The group that put East Orange on the map was stacked with intangibles. Witness five of them… Read the rest of this entry »