Ludacris The Hip Hop Icon

Ludacris - The Hip Hop Icon

Ludacris born Christopher Brian Bridges is a multi award winning multi platinum Hip hop artist noted for his slick hip hop rhymes, his cool hip hop music videos and for being the biggest selling Southern Hip hop artist in the US selling 17 million albums in the US and 24 million albums worldwide. Ludacris released his first album in October 2000 entitled "Back for the First Time" and it was a huge success reaching number 4 on the Billboard 200.

Some smash hit Ludacris rap songs and some cool Ludacris music videos such as "Southern Hospitality" and "Whats Your Fantasy" were released from this album and further enhanced his glowing reputation as a Hip hop star in the making.

Ludacris released his 2nd album at the end of September 2001 and it was entitled "Son Of Mouf". The Ludacris music video for the leading single entitled "Roll Out (My business) was nominated for a video award. The amazing Ludacris rap song itself was eventually nominated for a grammy for Best Male Rap Performance and it would point at number 17 on the Billboard Top 100. More Ludacris rap songs was released including "Saturday (Oooh Oooh)", with Sleepy Brown and "Area Codes" with Nate Dogg. "Word Of Mouf" is Ludacris`s bestselling album to date selling more than 3 and a half million copies.

Ludacris then released his future album in 2003 which was entitled "Chicken-N-Beer". This album gave Ludacris one of his biggest hits to see on the Kanye West produced rap song "Stand up" which hit the figure 1 position on the Billboard Top 100 and also featured in the picture "You Got Served". Another album entitled "The Red Light District" was released in 2004. More hit Ludacris rap songs and more hit Ludacris music videos were to come and once again Ludacris had another smash hit album after it debuted at turn one on the Billboard Top 100 Charts.

Ludacris next album release was entitled "Release Therapy" and it included collaborations with Pharrell Williams, R Kelly, Young Jeezy and Mary J Blige. The first Ludacris song released was entitled "Money Maker" which featured Pharrell Williams and it went to issue 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Other Ludacris rap songs and Ludacris music videos were released to advertise this album including "Grew UP A Bang UP" and "Runaway Love" helped take "Release Therapy" to issue 1 in the Billboard 200 charts. The following album to be released was entitled "Theater Of The Brain" and it was released in 2008 and it featured collaborations with Chris Brown, T.I, T-Pain and more. Singles released included "What Them Girls Like" featuring Chris Brown, "One More Drink" featuring T-Pain. "Theater Of The Idea" went to turn 1 in the Rap charts in the US becoming another smash hit album.

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