Gimme Some Skin: Your Favorite Rapper Nude Or In Their Underwear, In The ’90s! (PHOTOS)

All this talk of nip slips and wardrobe malfunctions took us back to the ’90s when rappers were deliberately taking their clothes off.

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Back then, it didn’t seem like as big a deal as it appears now. Blame technology, or sagging, or conservatism.

All we know is, if America adopted the mentality of Brazilians, every rapper would run around with their clothes off, for fun and for profit.

Above is Big Daddy Kane, rapper and smoove guy. Kane is naked with socks and a robe on, eating chocolate on a couch for PlayGirl magazine.

PlayGirl’s reputation as a gay mag was just budding. Kane didn’t get teased for that, he got quizzical looks because he said ‘eff it and cashed a check. 

After the break, more Kane in PlayGirl, June 1991.

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Big Danny Kane for PlayGirl.

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Rapper Kool Keith stripped to his big boy briefs for the cover of his 1997 Sex Style album cover. Notice his Kangol matches his lady’s lingerie.

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Lauryn Hill took it off, worked blue and posed as Nataraj, aka Dancing Shiva for Rap Pages in 1995.

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Tupac wore gold drawers in this photograph by David LaChapelle in the 1990s.

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Lil Kim as a Louis Vuitton product conceived by David LaChapelle.

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MC Hammer swings high and low in “Pumps In A Bump.”