Who’s kidding who? Our celebreality series has had a had some wild parental moments. Moms do things one way (hello Sister Patterson!) and dads do things another. Since Father’s Day is this Sunday, we figured that a playlist of some pop/kid interactions would be appropriate. We got Luke, Hulk, Danny, Scott, Flav, and others waiting for you in this Celebration of VH1′s Most Awesome Dads.
While wifey gets ready for “Ladies Night, Mr. Me So Horny sits alone in his hotel room but not for long. See more sneak clips from the next episode of Luke’s Parental Advisory here.
Compare and contrast time! Watch the segment above from this week’s episode of Luke’s Parental Advisory, in which Luke goes to rather extraordinary (like Cyrano-extraordinary) lengths to help his son become a player, and then think back to last week’s episode in which he bristled at the idea that his (older!) daughter Lacresha might have a love interest. In the past, Luke has been upfront about the double standard society (and, by extension, he) places on men’s sexuality versus women’s. Is this unfair, or just the way it goes?
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The most hilarious scene of this week’s Luke’s Parental Advisory occurs midway into the video clip above. Luke’s daughter, Lacresha, is throwing a pool party that’s so unexciting, it’s barely treading water. Luke decides to lend his hype-man services, shouting out to the crowd over a few of his vintage tracks. What could have gone belly-up instead belly-flops as the once sure-fire party-starter barely gets a rise out of the apathetic audience of today’s youth. It used to be that when a Luke track dropped in Miami, the booty-shaking response was practically Pavlovian. My, how times have changed.
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Instead of the usual mix of deleted scenes and episode-specific commentary, the online extras for Luke’s Parental Advisory are a series of video blogs from Luke and his family. The most telling one this week comes from his daughter, Lacresha, who describes what life was like before Luke became engaged to his fiancé, Kristen. In the video above, Lacresha reveals, “I used to always just see the girlfriends come and the girlfriends go,” and adds that she and Luther both thought that Kristen wouldn’t last. “My gosh, when is she gonna leave?” she wondered. In the end, she says that she’s happy for her dad and Kristen, but the subtext is far juicier than standard well-wishing.
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Above, check out some footage from the premiere party for Luke’s Parental Advisory, which was held last night in Miami. Keep an eye out for a cameo from I Love New York 2‘s Mr. Wise. Also getting down was Luke’s sense of humor: when the interviewer asks him if he thinks the show will reignite his stardom, he comes back with, “Oh yeah, I think this is gonna resurrect the dead.” Oh, Luke, such a card!
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In the second part of our interview with former 2 Live Crew leader/porn-peddler/family man/Luke’s Parental Advisory star (premiering tonight at 10:30/9:30c on VH1) Luke Campbell, we focus on the family aspect of his life and reality show. (Read Part 1, which focuses on his career and reputation here.) Below, Luke talks about the somewhat shocking contrast between his personal and professional lives, how he felt under the scrutiny of reality TV’s cameras, his love of Top Chef and why this show may provide the poetic justice that his opponents have been waiting for all these years.
You may know Luke Campbell as Uncle Luke, leader of the 2 Live Crew. You may know him as the man who created the parental-advisory label for explicit content on CDs. You may know him as the man who fought an obscenity charge all the way up to the Supreme Court…and won. Hell, you may just know him as the man who coined the phrase, “Pop that p****.”
But you probably don’t know him as a businessman and you definitely don’t know him as a father. All that will change next week when his reality show, Luke’s Parental Advisory debuts Aug. 4 at 10:30/9:30c on VH1. The show finds him juggling an adult-entertainment empire, a fiancée and two teenagers. We’ll have more on the show itself next week, but for the first part of our interview with Luke, we look back on his career with him. He and the 2 Live Crew have been accused of misogyny and homophobia throughout the years. Below, Luke answers those claims and explains the greater purpose of the art that made him a household name.
