Luke Campbell: The Mr. Skin Interview

My Life & Freaky Times isn't your first autobiography. Over ten years ago you published As Nasty as They Wanna Be: The Uncensored Story of Luther Campbell of the 2 Live Crew. So why the follow up?
Because a lot of people are interested in a lot of different stories that they may have heard about, some of the things that went on backstage. Since I did the last book so many different things have happened in my life that a lot of people are interested. Then, there's a whole other side that I didn't talk about in the other book.

I understand this is a no-holes-barred account of your life, pun intended.
Yeah, it's like no-holes-barred, but at the same time I was reading those Chicken Soup books and I thought that was really interesting, that whole concept. Every time I go out and talk to people they start talking about these stories. "Yeah, you know, when you came to town I jumped onstage and was with the girls." And blah, blah, blah, everybody's got these stories. I thought it would be a good idea to do a book similar to that.

Your stories are like Chicken Soup for the Perverted.
Chicken Soup for the Freaky Soul. That's what the name originally was, but we didn't want to get into contractual, copyright infringement or nothing like that. I didn't want go through that whole thing that got me in the Supreme Court before. I stayed clearly away from that.

Well, let's hear some of those freaky soul stories. I know you've got some interesting stuff on music video vixen Gloria Velez (Picture: 1).
People wrote in magazines all kinds of different things about me and her, our relationship, so I started from day one when I met her, how I met her, when she got turned out, her first experience with a girl, all the things that happened in Mexico. It's very explicit. Girls went down on her. How she hooked up with Aaron Hall. . . .

Speaking about Aaron Hall, you put him to the test to see just how freaky he actually is.
I did. I put him to the test. I was doing one of my famous shows, called Luke's Peepshow. The show was just basically putting people to the test, because all of these artists run around saying that they freaky and they this and they that on a song. So I'd make them live up to the hype. I got him and before you know it I test him out and Aaron licked a girl from behind, licked another one from behind, licked one in the front and fell in love with Gloria, had a kid with her and went crazy. He lived up to the hype. But in the book there are quite a few guys that did not live up to the hype and some girls, like Lil' Kim (Picture: 1 - 2). She did not walk the walk, sorry to say.

What about Mike Tyson, how does he get down when he's not training?
Out of control. You got to read that chapter. Mike Tyson. That's my man! Put it this way, every show that I did, if he was in the same city, Mike Tyson would be there. Eventually he'd end up at the hotel where my girls are at and in the book I describe all kinds of wild stuff that Mike does with the girls. And Mike don't care.

How revealing do you get about yourself in the book?
I'm revealing! I talk about some of the things I did as well, some of the wild stories. I talk about Japan when the girls grabbed my crotch. I just said, fuck it. I let the girls jump on stage and let them all give me head on stage. We was young and crazy.

Those 2 Live Crew videos, that was just the clean version of what was really going on?
That was super clean. That was the hardest thing in the world, doing videos for TV. I think that was the only time we really had to be creative. That was the most work.

Tell us about the Miss Freaky Soul contest.
One of the things that I'm doing now, after I release my latest album, I'm going straight off into the adult industry. There's no black Hugh Hefner, no urban porn star. I'm looking worldwide for a Miss Freaky Soul. She'll probably be my first star. I'm looking for a girl, an artist, that walks the walk, talks the talk, and looks the look! She must be the freakiest girl I ever met, on top of it. I just want to meet the freakiest girl that I can produce. I met some freaky ones, but I never did a contest.

How do you gauge the level of freakiness in a Miss Freaky Soul?
Oh, man, all you got to do is look at one of my freak-show tapes. In the book we do crazy stories about some of the girls I tested for being a Luke dancer. Like, walk naked through the lobby of the hotel. Go to the front desk and say, "I want Luke's room" at two, three o'clock in the morning. I got all kinds of wild, crazy tests.

Your influences travels from the music world to the Supreme Court, and now porn; what's next in your plans for total world domination?
After this album, I'll be totally, one-hundred-percent focused on dominating urban adult entertainment. That's where I'm at--I'm primed for this. I mean, I'm a combination of [Larry] Flynt's story, going to jail and all these different things and fighting the laws of the land, and the sexy parties of Hugh Hefner--that's all me.

When are we going to see the biopic of your story?
You need to. You need to tell them to do that deal. I don't know why it's so difficult to get that deal. We shopped it around, but I don't know why it's so difficult. I've been to the Supreme Court and jail, been all over the world, doing all these different things. It's hard to get a movie deal.

You ever going to slow down?
Not right now.


images of Luke Campbell all courtesy of Luke-Enterprise.com