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Do the Bart

single by 2 Live Crew

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ5286430 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Do the Bart" is a single from 2 Live Crew from their album Banned in the U.S.A. It has relatively little profanity compared to most of their songs. The song is about a dance.

Success

It reached No. 76 on the U.S. Billboard Hot R&B Singles chart. Unlike some of their other singles, especially "Me So Horny", "Do the Bart" had virtually no controversy.

Music video

The music video, directed by Tas Salini, starts off with two men with Bart Simpson-style hairdos coming up saying they will "do the bart". The two men then do the dance they call the "Bart" and Fresh Kid Ice and Brother Marquis are shown rapping while women in swimsuits are shown dancing.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Do the Bart” as single by 2 Live Crew. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 118-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Bart, single and Live can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as single by 2 Live Crew. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Do the Bart” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.