Friend: “That was for some LP album I saw at an antique store. The ladies are very immodest, I tried to spare your holy eyes by cutting out some of it.”
Luther Roderick Campbell (born December 22, 1960), also known as Luke Skyywalker, Solo Luke, Uncle Luke, or Luke, is a record label owner, rap performer (taking the non-rapping role of promoter), and actor. He is perhaps best known as a one-time member and leader of 2 Live Crew, and star of his own short-lived show on VH1, Luke’s Parental Advisory. As a result of one of the group’s songs, which used a parody of Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman”, Campbell was party to Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., which was argued in front of the US Supreme Court….
Campbell was also infamous in the late 1980s–early 1990s for his association with the University of Miami Hurricanes football team. Campbell was alleged to have been behind what was referred to as a “pay-for-play” system, which involved cash rewards for acts such as scoring touchdowns and big hits,[2] although Campbell has never actually donated to the University of Miami or its athletics department. In 1993, he also threatened to go public with various violations by University of Miami’s athletic department, specifically their football program, if Ryan Collins, a black player, wasn’t named their starting quarterback for that season.
Luther Campbell is of Jamaican and Bahamian ancestry and has three older brothers.[7][8] He has five children from four previous relationships. On July 19, 2008, he married then law school graduate Kristin Thompson in Dallas, Texas. She is the mother of his sixth child, and was brought up in Liberty City, Miami.
Campbell became a columnist for the Miami New Times[9] in February 2010. His column, Luke’s Gospel,[10] provides “a forum for his crazy-ass views on current events,” which include politics, sports and entertainment.
The New Times describes him as “the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech”.[11] He is quoted on the web site as saying: “It’s the perfect place for me. I am a free-speech guy. It’s just a match made in Heaven. Can you believe it? Me turned loose on the world in New Times. Wow.”[12]
On February 2, 2011, Campbell announced his intention to run for mayor of Miami-Dade County on a platform that includes making housing projects safer, transparency in local government, and taxing strippers.[13] He came in fourth in a field of 11 candidates, winning 11% of the vote.[14] Campbell is a registered Democrat.[15]
In 2014, Campbell tweeted that he would be defensive coordinator for Miami Norland Senior High School in 2014.
