Most offensive/vulgar/controversial MAINSTREAM artists

[VenomBlackViper]

LOL @ DMX not being mainstream.

[FreeSpeech]

Ice T - Inventor of the parental advisory sticker
NWA - FBI sending them warning notice
Public Enemy - Shows shut down and media refusing airplay
2 Live Crew - Sexual content of their albums and the cover for "Nasty' lead to a big court case in the Supreme Court
Ice Cube - Even after NWA, he was the king of controversy with his political commentary
Tupac - Politicians high up including Presidential candidates demanding end to his music
Snoop Dogg - Being banned from countries such as England.
Eminem - Misogyny, homophobia, drugs & violent content accusations.
Ludacris - MIsognistic accusations leading to endorsement pull outs.
50 Cent - Misogny, drugs, violence and criminal content accusations.
Dead Prez - Shows being cancelled due to their political content.

Great answer, thanks for the input. NWA, 2LC, and Pac top that list IMO.

[Rollimeo]

I wouldn't call dirt nasty mainstream, shit I only found out about him when because he did a show at my University but he got picketed and some of the staff and students were trying to stop him from performing here

[stillmatic]

I don't wanna be a dick about it, but yeah, it's very silly to say DMX ain't mainstream.

At one point he was the biggest rapper in the US.

If DMX ain't mainstream because he's not that well known outside of the US, then neither is the likes of Jay-Z who's biggest efforts overseas before he became Mr.Knowles (as 50 likes to call him) were almost irrelevant.

DMX had big #1 movies too with the likes of Jet Li, Steven Segal etc. He was the lead actor for many of these movies too.

[Raids-God]

I don't wanna be a dick about it, but yeah, it's very silly to say DMX ain't mainstream.

At one point he was the biggest rapper in the US.

If DMX ain't mainstream because he's not that well known outside of the US, then neither is the likes of Jay-Z who's biggest efforts overseas before he became Mr.Knowles (as 50 likes to call him) were almost irrelevant.

DMX had big #1 movies too with the likes of Jet Li, Steven Segal etc. He was the lead actor for many of these movies too.

As low in Context and True Acting as his Films were,
Cradle 2 The Grave was Dope as fuck, And spawned a few of his Bigest worldwide Hits from the Soundtrack.
X Gonna give it to ya was evrywere in 2003.

[dead prez]

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All of this is pointless white noise garbage who cares how popular Eminem is, and if he sold a biollion records. The question was how offensive his music is, and no i'm not saying DMX is more controversial than Eminem or doesn't say more foul shit in his music but your not even addressing his question.