Creativity Quote by Luther Campbell

Campbell’s line lands like a shrug with teeth: he knows the stereotype, and he refuses to apologize for benefiting from it. “People expect me” points to the public script assigned to rap moguls and Miami provocateurs in particular: fame plus money equals a carousel of “strippers,” coded here as both sexual spectacle and moral indictment. His move is to accept the premise while flipping its valuation. The punchline isn’t denial; it’s normalization.

The crucial subtext is labor. “That’s just the kind of woman I work with” reframes the supposed scandal as workplace reality, a transactional ecosystem where dancers, models, and club performers are colleagues, not tabloid props. Campbell is quietly insisting on professional proximity without the implied romantic ownership. It’s also a strategic dodge: if he’s “working,” then the moral panic becomes prudish confusion about the entertainment industry’s supply chain.

Context matters because Campbell (2 Live Crew’s frontman and a repeat defendant in America’s culture wars) built a career on baiting guardians of decency and then forcing courts and audiences to confront what, exactly, they’re policing. The quote plays in that same register: half defense, half provocation. He exposes how quickly the public collapses women into a single label and then uses that label to size up him. The irony is that he’s both critiquing the box and keeping it profitable, turning stigma into brand insulation: you can’t “catch” him doing what he’s already told you is part of the job.