# 2 Live Crew — Throw the D 2 Live Crew’s Throw the D (1986) appears on 3 of our lists — Miami Bass, Miami, and The Eighties, highest at No. 1 in Miami Bass. Every verdict, in full. - **Released:** 1986 - **Label:** Luke Skyywalker - **On:** Miami Bass, Miami, and The Eighties - **Updated:** 2026-08-31 - **Artist:** [2 Live Crew](https://waxonia.com/artist/2-live-crew/) - **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/2-live-crew--throw-the-d/ ## What 3 lists say ### No. 1 in [Miami Bass](https://waxonia.com/genre/miami-bass/) The record that set the template and started the call-and-response tradition of answer records. Crude by design, and the 808 is mixed louder than the vocal on purpose. ### Picked by [Miami](https://waxonia.com/theme/miami/) The template every record below is a variation on: an instruction, a call-and-response, and the 808 louder than the voice giving it. Luke Campbell put it out on his own label because no one else in the country was going to. ### Picked by [The Eighties](https://waxonia.com/theme/the-eighties/) Luke Campbell named the label after himself because there was no other way to release it, and later took its obscenity case to a federal appeals court. The most literal instance here of a scene having to build its own way out. ## Analysis 7 sections, no single moment the energy jumps to. - **Tempo:** 123 BPM — holds throughout - **Key:** Ab minor - **Dynamic range:** 2.3 dB — compressed hard — very little between the quiet and the loud - **Length:** 3:10 - `0:00` A · **intro**, instrumental — opens the record below its own average energy — playing: drums - `0:32` B · **peak** (bar 17), instrumental — sits at the top of this record's range — playing: drums, vocals - `0:46` A · **breakdown** (bar 23), sung — energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning — playing: drums, vocals - `1:03` B · **peak** (bar 32), sung — sits at the top of this record's range — playing: drums, vocals - `1:33` C · **steady** (bar 48), instrumental — holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling — playing: drums, vocals - `2:03` D · **breakdown** (bar 63), instrumental — energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning — playing: drums, vocals - `2:21` E · **outro** (bar 72), instrumental — the closing fall — playing: drums **What is playing.** Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names. - **drums:** the drum kit, separated from the mix - **bass:** the bass part, separated from the mix - **vocals:** the voice, separated from the mix - **other:** everything else — synths, guitars, keys, strings Measured from the YouTube master on 2026-08-29. Section labels describe how the energy moves, not musical form. Anything we were not confident enough to state is omitted rather than hedged. ## Listen [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/2%20Live%20Crew%20Throw%20the%20D) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=IMicDDXU-9c) --- Hand-curated by Waxonia. We host no audio; all links point to streaming platforms.