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Park City, Utah – 21 January 2012
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Luther Campbell/Recording artist: "We’re going to perform the songs and everybody’s going to be excited. Some of the older people of our generation will be able to tell their kids, ‘You’re staying home tonight, we’re going to see 2 Live Crew and shake our booty!’ And leave the kids home!"
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Los Angeles – 15 July 2016
2. Wide of seated (L-R) Tony Robbins, Pitbull, Luther Campbell
3. Wide of Lil Jon, Luther Campbell, Pitbull and Tony Robbins at Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony
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Miami – 28 August 2005
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Luther Campbell, recording artist: "The Miami flavor is sun, fun and nakedness and everybody with all their clothes off."
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STORYLINE:
Miami’s 2 Live Crew helped redraw the legal landscape around what hip hop could be, pushing the boundaries of free speech and taste with their provocative and sexually explicit recordings that led to landmark court decisions protecting the rights of artists.
But for decades the hip hop legends haven’t had legal control over their iconic discography, after giving up their rights to the records in bankruptcy proceedings that followed their legal fights in the 1990s.
Now a jury verdict is paving the way for surviving members of the group, and heirs of the two who have since died, to retake five of their early albums following a yearslong copyright dispute with a record company. The company is in the process of appealing.
“We won,” 2 Live Crew member Luther Campbell, also known as Uncle Luke, said in a video posted to social media after Wednesday’s decision. “All the albums! We got them all back!”
The copyright case was brought by Lil’ Joe Records, which bought the rights to 2 Live Crew’s albums after the group’s record company filed for bankruptcy in 1995.
In 2020, the members of 2 Live Crew and the heirs notified Lil’ Joe that they were terminating its copyrights and that ownership of the albums would revert to the artists. In response, Lil’ Joe sued, arguing that it retained the copyrights under the bankruptcy agreement.
The federal jury in Florida decided in favor of 2 Live Crew and the heirs.
“Our team is proud to have been part of this historic trial,” attorney Scott Burroughs said in a statement to The Associated Press. “Our overwhelming and total victory at trial will hopefully serve as a beacon to encourage other artists to brave the legal process to recover their copyrights.”
Richard Wolfe, an attorney representing Lil’ Joe, disputed the group’s claims, saying the terms of the bankruptcy mean his client retains all the rights. He said the battle is not over.
Among the records at issue is the 1989 release “As Nasty As They Wanna Be”, which includes the tracks “Me So Horny” and “The F— Shop.” Law enforcement officials in South Florida considered it so scandalous, they arrested a record store owner for selling it.
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