It featured the singe Rollout (My Business) with the promo video nominated for VMA. Dre and Xzibit, and finished the creation of his new album, Word of Mouth (2001). The following year, Ludacris acted in his first movie, The Wash, along with Snoop Dog, Dr. This release was not an excellent seller, but got the rapper’s some audience. The album was called Back for the First Time and featured four new songs. In 2000, Ludacris signed a contract with Def Jam to release a new edition of his debut work. Acting by all means, the young rapper managed to sell over 50 000 copies. After that, he decided to produce and distribute his own album, Incognegro, by himself. Ludacris participated in the creation of Timbaland’s Tim’s Bio: Life from da Basement (1998) recording the song Phat Rabbit. It was the time when Timbaland offered him cooperation. He started his music career as DJ of one of the Atlanta radio stations. Aged nine, he wrote and performed his first rap song. American rapper and actor Ludacris (Christopher Brian Bridges) was born on September, 11 1977. His entry into the rap industry came via radio he worked as a disc jockey at Atlanta-based urban station Hot 97.5 (which later became Hot 107.

He then studied at Georgia State University.

He quickly became a multifaceted superstar, making multiple film and television appearances while staying active in music with consistent guest features on other artists' tracks and albums of his own like 2015's Ludaversal.īorn Christopher Bridges on September 11, 1977, in Champaign, Illinois, Ludacris moved to Atlanta during his high school years and attended Banneker High School there. The entirety of the aughts found the rapper scoring hit after mainstream hit and selling platinum numbers of records like 2001's Word of Mouf and 2003's Chicken -N- Beer. When rap's Dirty South movement broke nationwide in the late '90s and early 2000s, Ludacris rode it to immediate widespread popularity, becoming arguably the most commercially successful Southern rapper of the time.

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