Ludacris, formerly known as Luda Cris, is one of the best southern rappers in the United States in recent years, and also an excellent rap record producer. Ludacris's professional albums have sold more than 654.38 million +07 million in the United States and 24 million worldwide, and won the screen actors guild awards, Key Choice Award, MTV Award and Grammy Award. In addition, Ludacris and his agent Chakazulu set a disturbing peace record under the national defense jam record. Ludacris is famous for his high and low rap and absurd and interesting MV. Chris bridges was born in bridges, Champaign, Illinois, USA. He is descended from African-Americans and American Indians. He has a great talent for rap music since he was a child and started his rap career very early. Bridges wrote his first rap song at the age of 9, and then his family moved to Atlanta, where he started a brilliant rap career. /kloc-At the age of 0/2, Xiaoqiao joined an amateur rap group called Loudmouth Rogue. After graduating from Banek High School in Atlanta, Bridges was admitted to Georgia State University, majoring in music management. Since then, his rap genius has been known by his classmates and others, and gradually he began to March into professional rap music. Chris Bridges became the DJ of the popular local 97.5 radio station, which gave him the opportunity to further practice his rap music and learn recording techniques. This experience benefited him a lot in his later music career. Most importantly, he earned some money here, which can provide a material foundation for his future development. During this period, Ludacris was invited by the then fledgling producer Timbaland to work with him in the local WHTA radio station. Then Ludacris began to use the name "DJ Krislova Lova" as a radio DJ. In 1998, Ludacris also made a guest appearance as "Fati Rabbit" in Timbaland's album "Tim's Biography: Life from Basmont". Chris bridges changed his name to Ludacris, and switched from radio DJ to develop his own rap music. He began to get cooperation opportunities in the albums of several rap music celebrities. In May, 2000, Ludacris independently recorded and released his first solo album Incognegro in his disturbing Tha Peace company, which ranked fourth on the billboard album sales chart. Many songs in the album were very successful, and this album became a very important beginning of Ludacris's rap career. Many singles in the album made many people remember his name and became his diehard fans, which also established Ludacris's position in the southern rap music industry. Because some singles in this album are very popular on local radio stations, the sales of this album are still quite excellent, exceeding 30 thousand copies. Good sales performance and Ludacris's own potential led many mainstream record companies to offer him olive branches, and finally Ludacris reached an agreement with Def Jam. In the new record company, Ludacris recorded several new songs and added them to the album Incognegro. After renaming the album for the first time, it was re-released on June 5438+1October 65438+July 2000, but this time it has become a big record company, and the album producer is the famous Neptune tune. Of course, this album has been a great success, in which singles occupy a considerable number of radio stations, album sales have reached the fourth place on the Billboard 200 list, and it has also become the R&: runner-up in the B/Hip-Hop album list. This album became a very important beginning of Ludacris's rap career. Many singles in the album made many people remember his name, became his die-hard fans, and established Ludacris's position in the southern rap music industry. At the end of 20001,Ludacris released his second solo album, The Word of Mouf, and the title song, Rollout, was nominated by VMA in 2002. The other three singles in the album are also branch classics, namely Oooh Oooh with Sleepy Brown, Moving Bitch with Mystikal and I-20, and Area Code with nate dogg. In the spring of 2003, Ludacris came back with a song "Playing the Fool", which was included in the soundtrack of his guest movie "Speed and Passion 2". At the same time, he also released the title song "P-Poppin" of his new album "Chicken-n-Beer". But these two songs have achieved the effect of his previous songs. The new album Chicken-N-Beer sold well in the first week after its release, but because there was no successful single in the album, the album sales fell sharply. In the autumn of 2003, Ludacris released the second single in this album, "Stand Up", which was produced by the newcomer kanye west at that time. This song has become one of the most successful singles in Ludacris, winning the billboard singles list and being widely requested by major radio and TV stations. At the beginning of 2004, the third single in the album "Splash Waterfall" was released. Although the theme of the lyrics and the MV of the song are very explicit (this MV is the sexiest Ludacris theme MV, and the role of "Avatar" was released in the MV before James Cameron, and some people even suspected that this MV was made by Cameron on the Internet), it was a great success and ranked among the 10 singles. Then Ludacris is also because of the relationship with R&; King Arthur and little Jon collaborated on the world-famous single "Yeah! Won the first Grammy Award in his career. In 2004, Ludacris began to create his fourth album "Red Light District", which was more mature in production and creation, and also won the title of billboard album sales list. In September, 2006, Ludacris released the highly anticipated new album "Release Therapy". The title song "The Earners" got a guest appearance from super producer pharrell williams, and this song has become another number one single in his six years. The second single, "Growing Up in a Big Mess", found a cooperation with Atlanta's new Young Jeezy, and dispelled the rumors of their contradiction. And the third single, with R &；; Veteran singer Mary J. Blige's "Out of Control Love" topped the billboard rap singles list and won the "Best Cooperation Award" at the 2007 BET Awards Ceremony. This album also lived up to expectations, and it topped the billboard album sales list in the first week. Compared with previous cynicism, Ludacris is more mature, and this album won him the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album of the Year the following year. Ludacris's achievements are not limited to his solo album. As the core of disturbing tha peace, Ludacris shared his experiences and passions with many artists, including Fate, I-20, Shawnna, Playaz Circle and Tity Boi. In addition to supervising the disturbance of peace in tha, Luda also manages the Ludacris Foundation, a three-year-old non-profit organization. The purpose of Ludacris Foundation is to encourage young people to bravely realize their dreams through the "success principle" and let them know that they are future builders. The foundation will show young people's views, contradictions and difficulties through music. This foundation is of great significance to Ludacris. Although not in his job scope, he will often participate in community service. He said, "I really like working with people and helping others." On June 5438+065438+ 10, 2008, Ludacris released his sixth official album "Theater of the Mind", which ranked fifth in the album sales list of billboard in the first week, and the winner of the week was kanye west's "808s &: Heartbreak" Take It Away. And a song in the album "I wish you would" brought the cooperation of another king of Atlanta, T.I., symbolizing the end of their contradiction. 20 10 March, Ludacris's seventh album, Battle of the Sexes, was released. Just like the title of this album, the original concept of this album is a fight between Ludacris and her female artist Shawna in the album "You Punch, I Punch", but Shawna left Ludacris's "Disturbing tha Peace" and turned to T-Pain's "Diaper Boy". However, the album's two singles "How Low" and "My Chicken is Broken" were both very successful. The album sold 430,000 copies in the first week and won the title of billboard album sales. In 20 10, Ludacris was invited to sing the rap part of the popular song Baby in Justin Bieber's new album My World 2.0, and participated in the MV of Baby, which was well received by the outside world.