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Ludacris is the stage name of Chris Bridges, a rapper from Atlanta, Georgia who became a video and radio star after the success of his 2000 album Back for the First Time. Bridges began his career as a radio DJ in Atlanta, where he was known on the air as Chris Lova Lova. His self-produced record, Incognegro led to a contract with the Def Jam South record label and was remade into Back for the First Time. He second release, Word of Mouf (2001) was ... a hit, and Ludacris rose in the ranks of young rappers in radio and MTV rotation. In 2003 Ludacris released Chicken and Beer and appeared in a small role in the feature film 2 Fast 2 Furious (starring Paul Walker). He also appeared as Skinny Black in the movie Hustle and Flow (2005, starring Terrence Howard) and had a small role in the drama Crash (2004, with Don Cheadle).
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Christopher Brian Bridges (born September 11, 1977), better known by his stage name Ludacris, is a Grammy Award winning American rapper and actor. He is the co-founder, along with his manager, Chaka Zulu, of Disturbing tha Peace, an imprint distributed by Def Jam Recordings. Luda is tied with Nelly for the title of the hip-hop solo artist with the second most Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits (four each). He has sold more than thirteen million records in the U.S. alone. He is ... the rapper with the most Top 40, Top 25 and Top 10 Billboard Hot 100 Hits of all time
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Ludacris has his own label (as do most rappers these days) as well as a clothing line called CP Time. E-40 owns ten Fat Burger (fast food) franchises in the Bay Area along with NFL player Chester McClocklin. He’s a Land Baron and Business Tycoon to the fullest. Snoop Dogg and Super Bowl-winning linebacker Willie McGinest (New England Patriots) have created a football advisory company geared at helping young American football stars realize their potential. He’s ... got a skateboard company called Snoop Dogg Board Company. Everybody knows about his deal with Girls Gone Wild.
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Besides his blossoming career as a rapper, Ludacris ... has a thriving movie career. Ludacris pictures include Hustle and Flow and Crash. On the music front, after the success of his 2000 album, Back for the First Time, the rapper became a MTV video and radio music star. His follow-up album was also a success and following it, Ludacris branched out into film. Photos of Ludacris in Hustle and Flow and Crash are downloadable here.
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When the Dirty South movement broke nationwide at the turn of the century, Ludacris rode it to immediate widespread popularity, becoming arguably the most commercially successful Southern rapper of the time. In 2000 the Atlanta-based rapper signed to Def Jam's newly established Southern rap subsidiary, Def Jam South, and became the label's flagship Dirty South artist. Def Jam repackaged his underground album Incognegro (2000) as Back for the First Time (2000) and issued "What's Your Fantasy?" as its lead single. The song soon became a national hit, beginning a long string of hits that would include Billboard Hot 100 number ones ("Stand Up," "Money Maker") and Top Tens ("Move Bitch," "Splash Waterfalls," "Pimpin' All Over the World," "Runaway Love"), as well as a bunch of Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Top Tens ("Southern Hospitality," "Area Codes," "Rollout [My Business]," "Saturday [Oooh Oooh!]," "Get Back," "Number One Spot"). Plus, Ludacris became a reliable featured guest, gracing Top Tens 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 himself as a versatile actor, notably appearing in such mainstream films as 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Crash (2005), and Fred Claus (2007), among other films and TV series.
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When the Dirty South movement broke nationwide at the turn of the century, Ludacris rode it to immediate widespread popularity, becoming arguably the most commercially successful Southern rapper of the time. In 2000 the Atlanta-based rapper signed to Def Jam's newly established Southern rap subsidiary, Def Jam South, and became the label's flagship Dirty South artist. Def Jam repackaged his underground album Incognegro (2000) as Back for the First Time (2000) and issued "What's Your Fantasy?" as its lead single. The song soon became a national hit, beginning a long string of hits that would include Billboard Hot 100 number ones ("Stand Up," "Money Maker") and Top Tens ("Move Bitch," "Splash Waterfalls," "Pimpin' All Over the World," "Runaway Love"), as well as a bunch of Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Top Tens ("Southern Hospitality," "Area Codes," "Rollout [My Business &"Saturday [Oooh Oooh! "Get Back," "Number One Spot").
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