Hip Hop Peepshow

Two more rappers have joined the ever-growing club of hip hop MCs branching out to the porn world with their marketing ... er ... tentacles.

Former 2 Live Crew leader Luther Campbell has teamed up with Exquisite Multimedia and adult director Justin Slayer for a new hip-hop meets porn series called "Peepshow XXX." Campbell, whose raunchy, sex-filled Miami bass tunes led to his arrest on obscenity charges in both Ohio and Florida, is threatening to go further sexually than any other rapper has in porn thus far. While Ice-T and Too Short have all hosted porn videos, Campbell has alluded that he might actually have sex in his (though he has not confirmed this).

"We're going to do this right," Campbell told AVN. "Slayer is going to concentrate on doing what he does and I'm going to concentrate on doing what I do. But if he needs me to get up in there, I'll do what I got to do."

"We're going to take them to a 'Luke party,'" Tony B., general manager for Exquisite Multimedia added. "We're going to throw a real party in Miami and show them how Luke does and how Exquisite Multimedia does it. We're going to stir it up right and videotape what goes on."

"I've been doing it for a minute, this sex thing," said Campbell. "What me and Justin are going to do is bring the two worlds of hip-hop and sex together in a way that no one else has done before. The series is going to be a lot like what my life is like on the road. All sorts of crazy shit goes down when I come into a town. Women get their booties shakin' and get freaky up on the stage when I play -- and it's even crazier in the back."

The first episode of "Peepshow XXX" will be filmed in Miami this March.

Another rapper turned porn auteur is Lil' Jon of Lil' Jon & the East Side Boyz, the self-proclaimed "original kings of crunk." Jon is the goblet-carrying, gold-teeth frontin' dreadlocked dude you see in just about every hip hop magazine or party photo op these days. He also happens to be a big porn fan and recently issued his "Lil' Jon's American Sex Series" through Video Team. The vid finds Jon crossing over from "hip hop to pop shot, " to quote the box cover. Like most rappers, he doesn't actually have sex in the vid, but simply presides over porn stars and amateurs as they do and provides the musical soundtrack.

"Snoop really opened the doors for all of us that are doing it now," Lil' Jon recently told The Porning Report at the Adult Entertainment Expo. "We're gonna be the first Southern group to put shit out the way we're gonna do it. We're gonna try to flip it and do soundtracks to the movies, our music is high energy as it is, so when we put that into the porn it's gonna be a whole new level of pornography. Rap and porn are already so intertwined as it is, with the groupies and what we talk about on the records."

And damn if Jon didn't hit the nail on the head. Rap and porn are indeed already intertwined, and the lyrics on many of the records are indeed laced with explicit tales of sexual accomplishments and atrocities, so the marriage of the two is a logical progression. But that ain't gonna prevent protests...

"Lil' Jon's American Sex Series" is available on February 20th.