![]() Labels like LaFace and SoSo Def were there. There was already a booming music scene in Atlanta, and at that young an age, I already knew what I wanted to do. My father lived in Atlanta, and as a kid, I always wanted to be around him. Your name is synonymous with Atlanta and the “Dirty South.” Yet, you’re from Champagne, Illinois, and left for Georgia at age 8. ![]() But, as I progress and evolve in film, my goal is to have the hip-hop part dissipate. Maybe, during the transition when I got my first “Fast and Furious” film, there was a bit of hip-hop in me because that role required it. ![]() I’m taking myself out of the persona of who Ludacris is. Multi-hyphenates who bridge hip-hop and other media often claim that hip-hop is a part of everything they do, even when they’re not rapping. Bridges talked with Variety about his start in radio, how Timbaland discovered him, and the way that business school has helped guide him through a long career in the hip-hop game. As an artist, he’s sold more than 24 million albums worldwide since he began making music with 1999’s independent “Incognegro.” From there, it was on to a Def Jam contract and mainstream fame with such hits as “Act a Fool” and “Stand Up,” plus collaborations such as his 2004 feature alongside Lil Jon on Usher’s “Yeah!”įor a guy who hasn’t made a new album since 2015, the “Dirty South” rapper is jump-starting his schedule with just-booked music gigs in Miami Beach in May, and Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat Weekend at the Resorts World Las Vegas in July. Such attention is nothing new to Chris “Ludacris” Bridges. Twenty years after his first appearance in the “Fast and Furious” action-adventure franchise, 2003’s “2 Fast 2 Furious,” the Atlanta rapper and actor is set to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame the same week “ Fast X” premieres.
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