ludacriss:the rapper

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what are your thoughts about ludacriss

― giovanni (blake), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 03:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Afro > braids

(Also he is funny)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 03:25 (twenty-three years ago)

as opposed the ludacriss: the movie?

his songs all have funny sounds on them. I prefer him to Ja Rule but I'll skip him for Nelly.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 03:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate rappers who only seem to be able to rap about sex, but this guy does something right that I'm not quite able to put my finger on. Prefer him to both Nelly, Ja Rule and Mystikal as well.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 03:29 (twenty-three years ago)

true but you gotta admit his part in gossip folks was great

― giovanni (blake), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 03:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I noticed an insert that came with Scarface's "The Fix" advertising a new Ludacris record called "Chicken and Beer" coming out fall '02. Obviously it didn't happen, but I wonder when it will actually materialize. Has anyone heard anything?

― Bobby D Gray (bedhead), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 03:37 (twenty-three years ago)

ATL represent!

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 04:32 (twenty-three years ago)

"Back For The First Time" was so damn good and hard and nasty and vicious and then with "Word of Mouf" they decided to market him as the cartoon pottymouth rubbervox badboy of rap which still produced some great stuff but tended to diminish his real strengths which I think are in the vein of "Southern Hospitality" and soforth rather than "Saturday". If only he had done "Spank Me, Choke Me" rather than DMX the world would be a better place.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 04:57 (twenty-three years ago)

"Freaky Thangs" has been in my head for like the last two weeks

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 07:43 (twenty-three years ago)

did we ever talk about "ludacris presents... golden grain"? "smokin' dro"s got this great widescreen technicolour drawl.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 12:09 (twenty-three years ago)

can't stand nelly or ja rule,but i like what i've heard of ludacris
southern hospitality is chunky as fuck

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 12:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll tell you what he does that surprisingly few other people do...he's FUNNY. Actually funny, not just De La Soul skits funny. He's like...the Rodney Dangerfield of ATL.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 13:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Roll Out, a song apparently about a pimp daddy version of Noah's Ark. Deep.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 13:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Ludacris is probably the best emcee in the top 40 right now.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

The double timed bit in "Coming 2 America" should be enough to guarantee him permanent classic status.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Sterling, wasn't "Choke me Spank me" Xzibit or did DMX make a similiarly titled track... ?? If Xzibit then I certainly agree with you there. Ludacris is also the best cameo verse around right now (Search him w/ Missy, Trina, Amerie, and Snoop last year).

― Honda (Honda), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)

oh and also w/ Nas and Jadakiss on the "Made You Look" remix

― Honda (Honda), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 16:41 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah Xzibit.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)

"Fantasy" is the best song everrrr.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 17:44 (twenty-three years ago)

He's my dad's favorite rapper, so he must be doing something right.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 17:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Sterl I disagree about his strengths - or I think they're not integrated rite on Word of Mouf. There's a strong Southern tradition of bellowing "big dog" choruses that turns me right off ("Go to Sleep" "Move, B*tch"). Cartoon pottymouth / badboy is a good combination but when he goes straight for the latter it sounds wrong, or irrelevant. Or redundant - we already have one Li'l Jon and and I don't like him anyway.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 17:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I think we agree on what we don't like (I was expressing how I prefer his first album) but you see "badboy" in Move Bitch while I see cartoonishness there -- its his flow really. He was very agile and inventive on the first album which is why Fantasy was such a great track and since then he's gotten less so (Roll Out was pretty smart though) and just moved into cartoony bellowing territory on the album but then his guest verses show he's still got it.

I mean what he's spectacular at is his metaphoric construction rather than his ability to ROAR.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 18:05 (twenty-three years ago)

"Move Bitch" is his second-best single after "Southern Hospitality"!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 18:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Also I love the dogged way he just keeps hammering on the "business/biznass" line in "Roll Out" - it's like he got romanced by the cadence of BIZ-NASS and just forgot to move on.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 18:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Ack Sterl and Dan in a Rival-Schools-style smackdown! must... tag for... full... health

yeah mark he mesmerizes HIMSELF just as much as thee ladees, or you, or whoever he's talking to, and this is why i love him so!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 18:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Coincidentally, I brought Word Of Mouf into work today, and I guess the cleaning lady must have hit the volume levels on my speakers while dusting or something, else "THE ROYAL PENIS IS CLEAN YOUR HIGHNESS" wouldn't have positively blared throughout my entire department when I put it in the player first thing this morning.

Hard to explain, that.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 18:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't think it was possible for me to like Ludacris more than I already did! Thanks, Mark!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 18:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I totally agree on the double-timed bit of "Coming 2 America" which I guess means I just like him rapping fast.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 22:09 (twenty-three years ago)

speaking of: what's up with Twista (show-stealer on Freaky Thangs)?? all old stuff I've d/l by him suxxor, but he seems like he's popping up all over the place now

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 23:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Love him. The "Southern Hospitality" remix with Ms.Dynamite has to be one of hte most dissapointing things ever.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

seven months pass...

ludacriss, is sooo fine! Yall should e-mail me and I'll send you some great pic.s of him!

― nikki, Thursday, 28 August 2003 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I love this thread's title....

ludacriss:the rapper

As opposed to, say, ludacriss:the certified public accountant?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 28 August 2003 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

I LOVVVEEEE LUDA-LUDA HE'S SO FINE.....(I THINK) MY EX LOOKS LIKE HIM. IN SOME WAYS AND I WISH I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE HIM OR MEET HIM. CUZ LUDA MY IDOL AND I LIKE THE WAYS HE RAPS, TALK AND HIS BODY. SO SHAWNA WATCH OUT CUZ U SHOULD BE BOOTED OUT OF DTP AND LUDA REPLACE SOMEONE CUZ SHE AINT GOT WHAT IT TAKES.....

― shannon brown, Monday, 29 September 2003 10:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Best thread evah.

― Nick H, Monday, 29 September 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Luda has "a body"???

― adaml (adaml), Monday, 29 September 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

ludacris: part of this complete breakfast

("Rodney Dangerfield of ATL" = OTM)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 29 September 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

The other day at a party my friend was talking about how some pole said "The Message" was the greatest rap single of all time, and then I said I disagreed (because White Lines is better, obv) and a kid who listens to nothing but hardcore asked me what I THOUGHT the greatest rap single of all time was and it slipped: "Southern Hospitality." And he looked at me like I was joking and I said "I dunno, Fight the Power or some shit"

Also he is fine.

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 29 September 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never heard any of his records in their entirety, but I love his singles. "Catch Up" is one of my favorites in recent memory. Great rhymes and phrasing ("so when I get old I'm gonna rock roll, shake and shiver with some blacked out lungs and a fucked up liver"). Any song featuring Luda benefits. (see: Chingy's (?) "Holiday Inn" song and the one he did with Missy). He usually outshines the primary mc.

that new single (is it "When I Move, You Move"?) is fantastic, also.

Go ON wit' yo big azzz!!!!

― Will (will), Monday, 29 September 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

The part in the new single ("Stand Up") where the beat stops and he says "BLAH!" is like the greatest thing ever

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 29 September 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

the new album's fucking great

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 29 September 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"You got it wrong like women in tuxuedos,
You're comin' up shorter than 5 Danny DeVitos."

Funniest rap line evah.

― Nick H, Monday, 29 September 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

But it's not even the funniest in the song!!
"My rap career goes back further than yo' father hairline, it's Ludacris - I pack more nuts than Delta Airlines"

(but that's just my opinion)

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 29 September 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Have I missed people talking about the new album? "Blow It Out" is genius.

― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

i dont like the new album much but for the dj paul song, the penultimate one that has gunshots. and is it funny that his verse on the outkast album is better than any on his own album?

― sean., Monday, 27 October 2003 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

I can't believe that this thread doesn't yet mention hip-hop's crowning moment in 2003, "I go on blind dates with actual blind people".

The album's shit, though.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

that's a great line, though my favorite of the year is probably from "Eye for Eye" on the G Unit album: "I blow your brains out on the New York Times/Go home, open up the sports section, and read your mind."

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha, I was in downtown St. Paul last month and a couple teenage dudes were reciting "Hip Hop Quotables" in its entirety while walking down the street. I got a kick out of that.

Has everybody already forgotten "Act A Fool"? I know 2 Fast 2 Furious wasn't great shakes but it's like one of the best hip-hop car songs in a while ("I even got a trailer hitch with a barbecue pit!"). It also sounds like kung fu Joe Raposo (he of the "Three's Company" theme).

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 1 January 2004 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i like it when snoop goes "who left these hoes in my room?" like he is saying "who left these socks in my room?". some of the lines are really funny on this, but, i dont really like the album that much (apart from stand up, which is good)

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Revive in honor of Jess' fine piece in the Weekly.

I was pleased to read this, for one because it is a nice summation of some of the problems I have had with Luda over the last six months or so, and also because Jess' take on Chicken And Beer -- as one who has been such a proponent of Ludacris on this board -- was notable by its absence on the new threads.

So, like I said - spot on, mostly. My only hang-up is a nagging feeling that we are in for a Ludacris revisionism of sorts. Have we "lost" Ludacris, has he simply made one bad record, or was the man himself rated too highly in the first place? And if any of these are true, why does he have such a knack for lighting up other people's records, to this very day?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

And don't all the best rappers have a "schtick"?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I think his new record is his best.

― djdee2005, Friday, 20 February 2004 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the biggest problem with the new Luda is the production isn't as exciting as it has been on past records; imagine the "Gossip Folks" beat in the middle of it and you start to see exactly how lacklustre and sub-"Roll Out" the whole thing is sonically.

(Caveat: "Hoes In My Room" is possibly the greatest song released in 2003.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 February 2004 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, I am also quite partial to Hoes In My Room.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 20 February 2004 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd definitely agree that Luda has kind of quietly fallen off big time quality-wise, while it hasn't really affected his success/status (yet). I'm wondering if at this point Chicken & Beer will even catch up to Chingy's album sales, though.

hearing that "What Means The World To You" remix the other day was a painful reminder of what a rush a Luda guest verse used to be. his hit-to-miss ratio has been pretty poor for a while, although the Twista collabo on Kamikaze, "Higher", is pretty good, and his verse on the Usher song is tight, albeit not enough to save that terrible track.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 20 February 2004 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"Stand Up" is the funniest song in ages.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Friday, 20 February 2004 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i think dan OTM here, i've heard several of the acapellas used mashup-style and they sound great. also why not more love for "p-poppin"?? (because it's kinda a retread of "she said"?)

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 20 February 2004 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Lyrically, "Stand Up" is stellar. Sonically, it's... okay.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 February 2004 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Stand Up would be immensely improved just by jacking up the tempo a few BPM's, it just feels too slow for the dancefloor burner it wants to be.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 20 February 2004 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Chicken and Beer sold remarkably well.

i like Stand Up just the way it is.

― djdee2005, Friday, 20 February 2004 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I love "Stand Up" for the rhymes. I wish there was more snare in the beat and I wish they'd thrown in a sample of an alien getting punched in the blurfitz over the chorus, though.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 February 2004 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

Talk about The Red Light District here.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

I've only just started hearing Number One Spot. I love it, obv. And it's so ... WEIRD. Luda struts this odd deliberate flow like some Top 40 peacock, just listen to the way he sez "randy". God bless hip-hop.

― Lukas (lukas), Monday, 18 April 2005 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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