When the Dirty South movement broke nationwide at the turn of the century, Ludacris rode it to immediate popularity, and was probably the most commercially successful rappers of the time South. In 2000, Atlanta-based rapper signed to Def Jam newly established subsidiary, Southern Rap, Def Jam South, and became the leading artist of the label Dirty South. Def Jam repackaged his underground album Incognegro, (2000) Back for the first time (2000) and published “What’s your fantasy?” as his first single. The song soon became a national hit, beginning a long string of hits including the Billboard Hot 100 Number Ones (“Stand Up”, “Money Maker”) and top ten (“Move Bitch,” Waterfalls “Splash,” “Pimpin ‘ All Over the World “,” Runaway Love “), and a bunch of Hot R & B / Hip-Hop Top Ten (” Southern Hospitality “,” Area Codes, “” Rollout [] My Business, “” Saturday [Oooh Oooh !] “,” Get Back “,” Number One Spot “). Moreover, Ludacris became a reliable host with decorating the Top Ten for Missy Elliott (“One Minute Man,” “Gossip Folks”), Mariah Carey (“Loverboy”), LL Cool J (“Fatty Girl”), Chingy (” Holidae In “), Usher (” Yeah! “), Ciara (” Oh “), Jamie Foxx (” unpredictable “), Fergie (” Glamorous “), and others. Moreover, Ludacris established itself as a versatile actor, notably appearing in mainstream films as 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Crash (2005) and Fred Claus (2007), among other films and television series. With his partner Chaka Zulu, Ludacris also founded his own boutique label Def Jam, Disturbing Tha Peace (aka DTP), which several albums of rap / R & B acts as Shawnna, Bobby V., Field Mob, Playaz Circle and published.

Christopher Bridges was born September 11, 1977, Urbana, IL, Ludacris moved to Atlanta during his high school years and attended Banneker High School there. He then studied at Georgia State University. 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 107.9), where he was known as DJ Chris Lova Lova was, and this was how did knowledge was Timbaland. The producer featured Ludacris (then found to be charging Ludichris) on “Fat Rabbit” song of her album Tim’s Bio (1998), and with a high-profile feature to his credit, the ground has been laid for the rapper. Ludacris has carried out an independent album, Incognegro (2000), which in turn at the regional level itself, on the record label Disturbing Tha Peace released. Ludacris primarily worked with Shondrae producer for the album, but also with Organized Noize, the acclaimed production team behind the early albums of OutKast and Goodie Mob. Incognegro sold well enough to reach the Billboard 200, Ludacris and Scarface of Geto Boys was, who was involved as a representative of Def Jam in the negotiation of a contract to break.

End of 2000, adding, Def Jam repackaged Incognegro and released as Back for the first time a couple of new songs: a UGK collaboration (“Stick ‘Em Up”), a Neptunes production (“Southern Hospitality”), and a remix of his previously released song with Timbaland (dubbed “Phat Rabbit”). The albums lead single “What’s your fantasy?” It was a great success at the national level, peaking at number 21 on the Hot 100 and the follow-up single, “Southern Hospitality,” was similarly popular, charting 23 to put this pair of hits helped the sales of Back unit for the first time, rising to number four on the Billboard-200. The follow-up album, Word of Mouf (2001), was an even greater success for Ludacris, charting at number three and spawning a series of hit singles that are performed on the well in 2002: “Area Codes, “” Rollout (My Business) “,” Saturday (Oooh Oooh!) “,” Welcome to Atlanta “and” Move Bitch. ” After these singles had run its course, was a joint album, Golden Grain (2002), again published a document for the development of talent signed Ludacris Disturbing Tha Peace label, which was now in partnership with Def Jam. The next year was very stressful for Ludacris, as being in the movie 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) was published and released its third album, Chicken-N-Beer (2003), to reach his first number 200 on Billboard Chicken -N-Beer brought another series of successes, including the Hot 100 number one “Stand Up” and number six “Splash Waterfalls”.

Ludacris continued his output the following year with The Red Light District (2004), another album with the number of hit singles (“Get Back”, “number one”, “Pimpin ‘All Over the World”) was loaded. Disturbing Tha Peace (2005), a second joint album with the label’s roster of talent, was only communicated Ludacris’ for years, and has maintained a relatively low profile until the release of Release Therapy (2006), an introspective album of swore that he would have taken more seriously than before. Another chart-topper, Release Therapy included only two Hot 100 singles chart, but both were smashes: “Money Maker” (number one), “Runaway Love” (number two). In 2007, Ludacris got a lot of airplay as the featured guest on a number Fergie hit “Glamorous.” A year later a mixtape with DJ Drama called The Preview was released in November left the theater of the mind. The long list of guest stars the director Spike Lee and comedian / actor Chris Rock. His 2010 effort Battle of the sexes was originally a joint statement with Shawnna expected, but when the family left the DTP rapper, Ludacris was a solo album. Jason Birch Meier, Bramble