He can be seen in movies such as 52 Pick-Up, Life, The Cool World, Deep Cover, Tales from the Hood, Half-Baked, Hoodlum, Frogs for Snakes, Starstruck, The General's Daughter, Reindeer Games, Impostor, The Legend of 1900, and Purple Rain.
Kunene becomes a Robin Hood figure, gaining the title "The Hoodlum of Hillbrow".
In Cardiff, 2008, Mr Duke formed his backing band, known as The Hoodlum Circus, taken from a Hunter S. Thompson book, Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs.