The single featuring this song was a good commercial success inspiring the rapper to found a fund to promote arts among children.Ģ005 was a brilliant period for Ludacris as an actor. The next step to the overwhelming glory was performing Get Back with the punk rock band Sum 41 for the Saturday Night Live. The new album, The Red Light District (2004), hit the top of the Billboard album chart in a week. Ludacris met 2004 with his sexiest single Splash Waterfalls and his first Grammy for participation in Usher’s Yeah. It became the rapper’s biggest hip to head Top 100 on Billboard and have heavy play on leading national music channels. Things changed after the production of the single Stand Up, featured on the soundtrack to You Got Served. It was followed by the release of another single, P-Poppin and the long player Chicken – N-Beer (2003), both having moderate sales. The singer was also nominated for Grammy, yet defeated by Eminem.Īfter a long pause, Ludacris came back with the performance in 2 Fast 2 Furious and the single Act a Fool written for this movie. 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.

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