After turning in the necessary documentation, the former rapper spoke to Miami reporters, who asked him if he was for real.
"I'm dead serious," Luke said. "That's a question [they have] been asking me since I put in my first document: am I serious? I am serious, this is no joke."
Luke first revealed that he planned to run in early February in a column for the Miami New Times, in which he explained that he's been thinking about running for years.
"I've thought about running for public office before, but someone would always end up talking me out of it, saying, 'We have this good person here, he will do good for the community,' so I always backed out," Luke said. "But I'd end up frustrated because they didn't do anything. I'd give them ideas and they would just tell me what they wanted to hear.
"I get in my car, ride around Liberty City, and everything looks the same as when I was in the neighborhood growing up," he continued, detailing some of the reasons behind his decision to run. "I see the same crimes in the same areas. Officers and residents are still getting killed in the community I grew up in. I go to a city like Atlanta that has sensible affordable housing, and no one is being murdered. I go to Miami International Airport and see the same construction that has been going on for like a hundred years. All of that frustrates the hell out of me."
Nearly a dozen people filed to run on the May 24 election ballot -- including state Rep. Marcelo Llorente, former county transit director Roosevelt Bradley, economist Farid A Khavari, fireman turned community activist Jeffrey Lampert, Jose "Pepe" Cancio, former Hialeah mayor Julio Robaina, Eddie Lewis and Wilbur B. Bell.
Polls suggest former Hialeah mayor Julio Robaina is the front runner, reports Miami's CBS News.
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