flipside Battle of the Sexes: Uncle Luke vs. his ex-girlfriend Freda Here at OZONE magazine, we got a call from Uncle Luke’s ex-girlfriend Freda in response to his interview in the July issue. Apparently, she objected to his description of her as a “ghetto hoochie,” among other things. Just to make things interesting, we gave both Freda and Uncle Luke a chance to tell their side of the story. (below: Luke and Freda in happier times; photo by Marcus DeWayne)
HER SIDE: Why were you upset about Luke’s interview? He said that I was ghetto and wasn’t intelligent. That’s not true. It’s been almost a year since we’ve been separated, but I see that he just wants to keep playing games. I’m the “ghetto hoochie,” right? Ghetto hoochies don’t get $30,000 wedding rings. You don’t make a hoe a housewife. You don’t marry a hoe, right? I still have the ring. So if I was a hoe, why did he want to marry me? Why did the relationship end? I got fed up. Me and Luke were together for three years. I gave up my scholarship, my salon in New Orleans, everything; I gave up everything to help him and his career. I didn’t want to just play girlfriend; I wanted to be wifey. I didn’t want to play any games with Luke. If I’ma be here cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the kids, you’ve gotta make me your wife. Luke said, “You can be my wife.” He always wants a young girl because he can’t handle a person his own age. I was 20 years younger than him, but I was mature and on top of my game. He wanted me to mess with women, and I didn’t want to mess with women. If you’re gonna be with me, support me and what I want. I didn’t like Luke Skywalker. Luther Campbell is a totally different person, but he doesn’t know how to control Luke Skywalker. You can’t talk about me one way in the streets and then come back acting different at home. I just got tired of playing games. Luke, you’re 45 years old. Stop acting like you’re 14. I got older and more mature, and I’d rather go to an upscale restaurant and he’d rather go to the strip club. It got played out. I told him to get out of the game and start acting his age. He’s too old to be running across the stage. I was trying to help him but he wasn’t trying to help himself. I’d hear things in the streets [that he said about me], and yet I’m the woman living with him and I’ve got the wedding ring on. I got tired of listening to the gossip; him saying one thing and the streets saying something else. He described you as “ghetto.” Do you agree? No. When I was with Luke, I was in medical school. There’s a time and place for everything, but I’m not “ghetto.” I never grew up in the projects. I never was on Section 8 or welfare. I didn’t grow up like that, and I don’t treat myself like that. You try things when you’re younger, but as you mature you grow out of it. When I was trying to model and do calendars, all that was in fun when I was in college. I don’t think he was able to mature with me. He was still stuck in the 2 Live Crew days. He’s selfish and stubborn and that’s why he’s right there where he’s at. How can you grow with somebody that’s selfish? He’s intimidated by anyone who’s bettering themselves. He gets jealous. He knew I was an attractive, intelligent woman. One night we had a big fight at the Rollexx; that was the last straw. It was two months before the wedding. We were gonna get married on New Year’s Day. A woman [at the club] wanted me and Luke lost it. They were fighting over me at the club, but I would never date a woman. Luke thinks that every woman is like his lifestyle. He thinks that all women do women and all women cheat on men. He’ll never be happy until he lets the 2 Live Crew and Luke Skywalker lifestyle go. How can you treat women like shit in the streets and still decide to get married? It’s not gonna work. Every woman is not like your songs and your videos. He can’t trust women because of his lifestyle. We used to battle about that all the time. Do you still speak to Luke? He wanted to get back together up until All Star weekend when I told him it’s over; let it go. He always goes for younger women because he thinks he can manipulate their minds. Once you put your heart out to him he’ll smack you in the face. Because of his lifestyle he thinks all women stick bottles in their pussies and cheat on their men. Once he gets past that, he’ll have a better life. Until then, he’ll never be happy. 24
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HIS SIDE: Freda didn’t like your comments about her in your interview in last month’s issue. That bitch stole money and my fiance’s ring from my house. She was claiming that she was my fiancé. All of them do that. My fiancé is from Houston; that’s who’s ring it was. Me and her didn’t get married so she gave me the ring back. The ring was in my room and while I was throwing this girl [Freda] out of my house. She stole the ring and vandalized my house. She was one of my freaks. She wasn’t my girlfriend. She came down from New Orleans and was staying with me. I was seeing her, but I noticed that she was an animal. I tried her. I put a couple of my boys on her, and every dude that hollered at her, she was fuckin’ them. So I told her she had to go. She didn’t wanna go so I put her out and she started vandalizing shit. She says that she was in medical school. (laughing) Call up Circuit City in Hialeah. How could she be in medical school and working at Circuit City? Call up Deon’s Beauty Salon in Carol City. She was a hairdresser. You stand by your statement that she’s “ghetto”? No question about it. Straight ghetto. She’s in your magazine’s photo galleries with all the different artists. Do you ever see an artist’s real woman up in the magazine with a whole bunch of other celebrity niggas? One thing about us hip-hop niggas is that we’re very conscious about our women. Our women have to be respectable. Rule number one – they can’t fuck with no other rap niggas or singing niggas or entertaining niggas. Niggas don’t wife them kind of girls. That’s some Hollywood shit; they’re the ones that switch wives and shit. She says you were trying to force her to be with other women. Naw. You think I’ve got those kinds of problems? Look at the Freak Show. I see that shit all fuckin’ day. I’m doing pornos right now. I ain’t in the pornos, but I go through tons of footage. That shit don’t do nothing for me – two women sleeping with each other. In her opinion, you’ll never be happy until you leave the Luke Skywalker lifestyle behind. I’m happy right now. I have a nice woman; I’m back to what I’m used to dating. See, that was when I was going through a phase. My fiancé was a nice girl, a very educated biochemist. That’s what I like – librarian types. I was going through a phase [with Freda] where I thought I should try one of them out, cause I never dated a ghetto girl. She was an experiment. I had to convince myself. Everybody was saying that I needed to be with a ghetto girl. The librarian girls’ families get nervous about them dating Luke, a hip-hop guy. There’s so much family pressure. That was the first time I was in love, the girl before [Freda]. Everybody thinks I’m supposed to fuck with some ghetto-ass muthafucker, so I tried it, and now I’m back to what I normally do. I’m happy. I’m in love with my old lady; she’s a law student in her last year and I’m pretty sure we’ll be walking down the aisle soon. If a bitch don’t know who the president is and can’t have an intellectual discussion about the United States government and talk to me about significant things that really concern the country and the state of hip-hop from a business standpoint, I can’t function with them. I don’t wanna talk about how many Cristal bottles we’re gonna buy at the club. Anything else you’d like to say to Freda? I wish her the best of luck, and you can read the true story about her in my book coming out later this year. Tell her to please return the ring that she stole from my house. Even if I did give her the ring, if we didn’t get married she’s supposed to give it back, right? So that tells you what kind of hoe she is. She can’t justify it either way. She’s a mutt. I’m still trying to figure out how she got in T.I.’s [“Front Back”] video.