Happy birthday Luther Campbell

He was supposed to perform in Shreveport in 92 but had a disagreement over his fee and bailed, which caused a clusterfrick at the club. Club manager showed up at his hotel, and fisticuffs ensued, cops got involved, yada yada yada, headlines for a while then everybody forgot about it.

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2 live crew will forever live when it comes to the Miami rap scene.

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Luke didn't give a shite when it came to the government trying to ban his music nor was he & 2 Live Crew afraid of Suge Knight & big bad Death Row Records.

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1993 was a big year at Jack The Rapper. Tupac attended the official Outkast BBQ, Puffy was holding pool parties to rep Biggie and Bad Boy, Wu-Tang Clan were getting major buzz from their showcase and Snoop Dogg was set for his debut solo performance. But all was not well in the crowd. Cultural critic dream hampton, recounting the events in November 1993’s Spin magazine, described attendees as being there “to mill about the hotel’s tri-level lobby, pedalling, pimping and finally personifying my generation’s nihilism, confusion and despair… not only were the co-participants not there to network, but many of them had come to frick and party gangsta style.”

Death Row Records boss Suge Knight was, if reports from the time are true, quite literally gunning for Luther ‘Uncle Luke’ Campbell. The Luke Records and 2 Live Crew head honcho had released an album earlier in the same year and several of the tracks, including ‘Cowards Of Compton’, were pointedly aimed at Knight, Dr Dre and the entire Death Row stable.

The result was a series of running battles between the two camps which caused mass hysteria. Dream H
ampton vividly picks up the story at the centre of one of the altercations, moments before Snoop Dogg was about to perform: “I didn’t feel threatened until they start letting out their New York war call ‘Ay Yo! Awriiiight!’ I step away and three seconds later they’re bum-rushed by 40 n***** in Luke Records’ T-shirts… the crowd disperse frantically and I’m afraid of a stampede.” She continues: “Minutes later the lobby is stormed by Red Dogs, the drug and gang division of the Atlanta police department, and the Mounted Patrol who arrive at the hotel on horseback in full Confederate regalia.”

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An article on the Jack The Ripper incident during Freaknik in 1993

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Freaknik was dope dawg

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Indeed. I just wish I had been old enough to partake in before it got shut down.

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Chicago Sun-Times July 3, 1992 |

Luther Campbell, a rapper who formerly led the group 2 Live Crew, was arrested after a fight at a hotel, police in Shreveport, La., said Thursday.

Campbell had been scheduled to perform at a nightclub Wednesday night but left after getting into an argument over his performance fee, police said.

Later, the club manager showed up at Campbell's hotel, where a fight ensued, resulting in the arrest of three people including Campbell, police said. …

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