UNCLE LUKE How hard is it for an artist such as yourself to stay relevant in the game for a long period of time, with trends coming and going so quickly? How hard is it to stay relevant? It’s not hard at all. Not to me, because I’m a businessman first. If I was just an artist I would probably have been lost in the shuffle a long time ago. But I’m in the business of sex, and when people are in the business of sex they stay around for a long time. And I’m consistent with sex, I don’t fuck around. I’m not a gangsta one day and a weed smoker or something the next day. I’m sex all the time! Have you thought of going into the “sex business” full-time? Like full-out porn? Yeah, that’s what I’m doing now. This will probably be my last album as an artist. I have a couple artists on my label, yeah, but I’m going straight sex, porno, adult entertainment. That’s the only way to go. It’s a $57 billion dollar industry. Ads in the porn magazines ain’t like your magazine where you’ve got to spend $10,000 an ad (laughing). In the porn business you can just spend $2,000 with the AVN and you’re good. You don’t have to buy ads, you don’t have to buy videos, you don’t have to spend half a million dollars in promotions and marketing. Would you describe your new album My Life & Freaky Times as softcore porn, or more mainstream? How explicit is it? It’s Luke. Everything I brought to the table with 2 Live Crew.
MIAMI, FL if they’re talking like that, 9 times out of 10 they’re listening to music like that. To a large to degree they are getting exposed to it through music, but you’ve gotta know how deep to go with them. That’s how I am with my kids. Sometimes they ain’t ready, like my son. He ain’t ready, he’s into that Playstation right now. But as soon as he started talking about them girls, that’s when I’m going to start talking to him hart. He’s gonna be hearing that shit. “Nigga, you better wear a rubber!” Do you think it’s important for the schools to address sex education as well as the parents? Yeah, I think they need to. I think kids nowadays are not like the kids when I was a kid. Nowadays, the kids are exposed to so much more. You’ve got internet, music, fast girls, everything is fast right now. The world is going real fast. You’ve got cell phones now; shit is not slow like it used to be. Back in the day if you had four brothers or something in the house and one phone, you could never get on the goddamn phone. You’d have to wait in line or beat somebody down like you was in a jail cell just to use the phone. So it ain’t like it used to be, and there’s so much shit that they can see... The rest of this interview will be featured in the July issue of OZONE Magazine at www.OZONEMAG.com.
You have kids, right? What’s your opinion on how much sex kids should be exposed to? Yeah, I’ve got three kids. Kids should stay in kid’s place. I don’t think kids should be exposed to nothing that they ain’t ready for. I coach football, and I’ll have all the kids over at my house. They’ll be in the back room and they talk like grown people. I’m not sayin’ that I condone that, though. They don’t talk crazy around me cause I’ll straighten them out. You’ve gotta know how much they’re ready for. I got a 15-year old daughter and her mother said she was talking to boys. So I got on the phone and told her, “Yo, you talking to boys? You know what them muthafuckers want, right? That’s all they want, to try to get a little piece of the tail.” I talk to them real. At the same time, OZONE
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