2 Live Crew Leader Announced Plans To Turn Book Into Movie; Reveals Which Comedian He’d Like To Play Him
MINNEAPOLIS – Uncle Luke said the success surrounding NWA’s biopic has sparked interest in bringing 2 Live Crew’s story to the big screen.
Uncle Luke just released his new tome, “The Book of Luke,” about his time in the controversial hip-hop group, and said he’s been fielding offers to turn the book into a film.
“With the (buzz) of ‘Straight Outta Compton,’ people wanna hear the story of 2 Live Crew,” Luke, born Luther Campbell, said Aug. 6 during a Q&A at the National Association of Black Journalists convention. “They didn’t go to jail. They didn’t go to the Supreme Court.”
2 Live Crew brought raunchy lyrics to America a generation before hip-hop acts like Future and ASAP Rocky rapped about their sexual escapades. Cops arrested the group on obscenity charges after a performance in Florida, but they were later acquitted.
The group’s copyright infringement case over its parody of Roy Orbison’s hit, “Pretty Woman,” made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which sided with the notorious rappers.
Back at the Q&A, Uncle Luke revealed his top choice to play him in the movie.
“He’s asked me quite a few times, that if there’s a movie about you, you’ve gotta let me be you – Mike Epps,” he said.
The “Me So Horny” rapper said his “anger” about his group not receiving the recognition he felt they deserved prompted him to write the book, which he said took him about a year and a half with the help of a ghostwriter.
Most people get to tell their “story when they pass away,” he said. “And they tell it the way they wanna tell it. So I’m like, I’m happy, I’m good right now. So that’s my story there.”