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Lionsgate is in development on The Book Of Luke, a drama about Miami rap group 2 Live Crew and its leader Luther Campbell, whose parody of Roy Orbison’s “Oh Pretty Woman” was the center of a victorious Supreme Court case that paved the way for fair use sampling for music judged to be parody. Mike […]

Music producer Brandon Parrott is allegedly suing 50 Cent and Dr. Dre for their song "P.I.M.P."

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Sybil Wilkes talks with Luther Campbell about his new book The Book of Luke: My Fight for Truth, Justice, and Liberty City. Like BlackAmericaWeb.com on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.

  4/29/16- Sybil is sitting down with author and hip hop legend Luther Campbell during her Book Club, but will she have to twerk for him in order to get him to open up? Listen to what she says she might be willing to do.

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Rappers and athletes have made popular the wifin’ of hos and tricks in recent years, and rap legend Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell is not here for it. The outspoken Miami native blames Kanye West for changing the rap game, telling WatchLOUD, “It used to be a difference, before Kanye West, rappers wasn’t wifin’ all these […]

  The Tom Joyner Morning Show talks to veteran rapper Luther Campbell about how he invented southern hip-hop saved the First Amendment, and became a role model for his Miami neighborhood in his new book, The Book of Luke, My Fight For Truth , Justice and Liberty City. The controversial rapper/activist/philanthropist (yup!) talks about his life and how […]

It’s Uncle Luke versus Uncle Sam. And Luke seems to be losing this battle. His property is being seized due to tax debt, according to the Jasmine BRAND. He’s failed to pay more than $113,000 in federal taxes and the man slapped a tax lien on him. The wildest member 2 Live Crew owes the […]

Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell may not rock with the 2 Live Crew anymore, but he’s definitely live with the Tom Joyner Morning Show in Miami today. The man who brought us “Move Somethin’ and ” Me So Horny” was one of the first artists to take the Miami bass sound and the Miami booty to […]

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OK, I’m going to make one final appeal to black folks to simply stop the nonsense. That would be this business of us dismissing – and dissing – each other as “Uncle Toms,” “house slaves,” “house Negroes” or well, just fill in any term that fits this pattern. Usually, it’s black conservatives and/or Republicans that […]

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2 Live Crew alum Luther Campbell has jumped into the debate over Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained.” In an op-ed for the Miami New Times, the former rapper weighs in on Spike Lee, who has publicly taken issue with Tarantino’s repeated use of the n-word in “Django’s” script. “Screw Spike Lee,” Campbell begins. “Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django […]