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2 Live Crew Motion Picture

06/14/2017

Lionsgate Films is moving quickly on The Book Of Luke, a drama about the provocative hip hop group 2 Live Crew and its leader Luther Campbell, whose parody version of the Roy Orbison hit song ''Oh Pretty Woman'' went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court before a landmark ruling favored Campbell and paved the way for fair use sampling for music judged to be parody.

Up-and-coming actor RJ Cyler will play Campbell in the film. The Book of Luke is based on the memoir Book Of Luke: My Fight For Truth, Justice And Liberty City.

The film will tell a story that is Straight Outta Compton meets The People Vs. Larry Flynt, the rise of a provocative hip hop group and its envelope-pushing antics that got Campbell out of his poverty-stricken origins in Miami to become a millionaire and a galvanizing symbol of free speech.

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Reply #1 posted 06/14/17 4:16pm

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I wonder if the Kid n Play diss song is going to be mentioned. razz

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton

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Reply #2 posted 06/16/17 7:35am

namepeace	If the film is cast right, it could be a really good one. Good night, sweet Prince \| 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016 Props will be withheld until the showing and proving has commenced. -- Aaron McGruder
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Reply #3 posted 06/16/17 10:57am

SoulAlive	I'm ashamed to admit this,but back in high school,I loved that song "heeeeeyyyyy....we want some....." brings back alot of fun memories
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Reply #4 posted 06/16/17 11:22am

namepeace	SoulAlive said: I'm ashamed to admit this,but back in high school,I loved that song "heeeeeyyyyy....we want some....." brings back alot of fun memories The first concert I went to was headlined by 2 Live Crew. Good night, sweet Prince \| 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016 Props will be withheld until the showing and proving has commenced. -- Aaron McGruder
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