His entry into the rap industry came via radio he worked as a disc jockey at Atlanta-based urban station Hot 97.5 (which later became Hot 107. Chicken -N- Beer, his third album (to go along with dozens of guest spots), shows a rapper balancing the weed, women, and fried chicken with shots at those who've crossed him and a look at a few celebrity perils, delivered with his lightning-quick phrasing and cutting wit.
He then studied at Georgia State University. He quickly became a multifaceted superstar, making multiple film and television appearances while staying active in music with consistent guest features on other artists' tracks and albums of his own like 2015's Ludaversal.īorn Christopher Bridges on September 11, 1977, in Champaign, Illinois, Ludacris moved to Atlanta during his high school years and attended Banneker High School there. The entirety of the aughts found the rapper scoring hit after mainstream hit and selling platinum numbers of records like 2001's Word of Mouf and 2003's Chicken -N- Beer.
When rap's Dirty South movement broke nationwide in the late '90s and early 2000s, Ludacris rode it to immediate widespread popularity, becoming arguably the most commercially successful Southern rapper of the time.
