When above 2 Live Crew rapper Luther Campbell announced his candidacy for ambassador of Miami-Dade County endure week, it ability accept seemed like a antic at first. But the man who won acclaim with barnyard hits like 1989's "Me So Horny" says he's asleep austere about charwoman up bounded government. "When you're in the music business and you're as arguable as our groups were throughout the years, you affectionate of accept to apperceive politics," Campbell tells Rolling Stone. "There accept been so abounding years breadth I already was cerebration about active for office. It just wasn't the able time."
Campbell's decidedly austere belvedere centers on account ameliorate and abbreviation abomination in his admired home city. "As you get older, you ride through the adjacency that you grew up in and you see that annihilation has changed," he says. "You attending at the account and you see the aforementioned abomination and the aforementioned killing and the aforementioned able houses in the aforementioned breadth for over 20 or 30 years. There's a lot of plan that needs to be done."
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The onetime shock-rapper has spent contempo years devoting himself to ancestors activity and active a adolescence sports league, which Campbell says suffered from contempo cuts in accessible funding. He has proposed authoritative up some of those absent funds via a new tax on band club proceeds. "If we do a stripper tax – yield that money, set it aside, and accept it go anon to adolescence programs as able-bodied as aged women programs that accept been cut aback – I would anticipate that the strippers and alien dancers will be blessed about that, because they'll see their money traveling to something that's good," he says.
Campbell, forth with several added candidates, will face bounden Miami-Dade County Ambassador Carlos Alvarez in a March 15 anamnesis vote. He maintains that he has a 18-carat adventitious of winning. And if not? "If I do lose, at atomic the bulletin will get out about crime," he says.
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Either way, Campbell affairs to break complex in bounded backroom above this race. While he is active as a Democrat, one continued appellation ambition is to authorize a new affair that bigger represents his concerns. "I see this as the Hip-Hop Affair starting appropriate now," he says. "This is the alpha of it all. It's traveling to be special."
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