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Naughty By Nature to Release 30th Anniversary Edition of '19 Naughty III'

Naughty By Nature to Release 30th Anniversary Edition of '19 Naughty III'

Published Mon, February 13, 2023 at 4:24 PM EST

Naughty By Nature is set to release the 30th-anniversary edition of their 1993 album 19 Naughty III on Feb. 24.

Tommy Boy will celebrate the triple-platinum album with new digital, vinyl, CD and cassette editions which will feature six bonus tracks, including the never-before-available extended mix of “Hip Hop Hooray." Remixes from Pete Rock and The Beatnuts will also be included.

The album's lead single, "Hip Hop Hooray," produced by Kay Gee went platinum, and the Spike Lee-directed video featured cameos from Monie Love, Run DMC, Eazy-E, and Kris Kross, and Spike Lee himself.

In an interview with HipHopDX, Vin Rock explained why the legendary group worked so well. "I think it’s just the different personalities," he said. "When you work as a group, the finished product is a representation of all three personalities. If you didn’t have Treach in the mix, you definitely wouldn’t have that street mix. If you didn’t have me or Kay Gee in the mix, you wouldn’t have the marketing and the music there – as guys know us to be Naughty By Nature. It’s just a perfect balance. When you put different people together, I guess that collective input equates to one. You get the merge. It is a mixture, and we have been able to ride that fine line between street and Pop."

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