POV: Ludacris

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Asking largely because I've been getting back into Luda's singles but have no idea where (if anywhere) to begin on his other cuts. My personal list could vary wildly depending on mood, but:

1) Southern Hospitality - especially the video version with the "We drop 'bows on 'em" intro/outro. #1 in any version though. The best kind of "Dirty South" - filthy but friendly, a spooky delivery of charming material. Cadillac grills, cadillac mills, check out the oil my cadillac SPILLS - pure lyrical bliss.
2) Roll Out - Feels a little bit dated now, a little thin and shiny, but still, wow, probably the best brag-track of newly-acquired stardom ever.
3) Hip-Hop Quotables - Discovered thanks to the "hilariously genius rap lyrics" thread and it deserves the nod despite some dud moments. Another great opener: Hi, my name's Ludacris and I'm high as giraffe butts....
4) Stand Up - Heard this recently on an amazing little 2003 time-capsule mix CD I made and it's still pretty much the hottest track I've heard since it came out. Wow.
5) Saturday (Oooh Oooh) - Gotta be one of his most varied and inventive deliveries - really packing in the syllables where it counts, and relaxing to take in the glory of a big ol' aaaaaaaaass. Also, the only hip-hop track I've ever attempted to perform at karaoke besides "The Humpty Dance"!

I go back and forth on "Get Back," which I really hated and found sort of phony at first, but have come to appreciate for its moments of everyman relatability beneath the bluster - Can't you see we in the club man, shut the fuck up! I will never accept "Splash Waterfalls" or "Runaway Love"; the guy is a long way from convincing me with any sort of heavy/serious song.

Honorable Mention ties between his two big Missy guest raps, "One Minute Man" and "Gossip Folks." Would also love to spark discussion about all his really minor, seemingly instantly-forgotten singles e.g. "Diamond In The Front," "Act A Fool," "Number One Spot" - Brush my shoulder and I / Pop my collar / Cause I'm worth a million, gazillion, fulfillion dollars. - dunno the right thread format to really delve into that stuff though.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 01:33 (eighteen years ago)

Very predictable list:

Southern Hospitality
What's Your Fantasy
Saturday (Oooh Oooh)
Stand Up
Pimpin' All Over The World

― Tim F, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 01:43 (eighteen years ago)

Pimpin' All Over The World
Number One Spot
Get Back
Intro (Red Light District)
Stick Em Up

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 02:29 (eighteen years ago)

I never got the love for Pimpin All Over the World.

Game Got Switched
Coming 2 America
Hip Hop Quotables
Act A Fool
Southern Hospitality

A line I should have put on the favorite couplets thread: "Are there any more like ya? HELL NAW! I treat humans like students - FAIL Y'ALL"

― clotpoll, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

Awww yeah "Game Got Switched" - how can i find a way to fit that into my top five?

― Tim F, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 03:58 (eighteen years ago)

Move Bitch
Get Back
Welcome to Atlanta
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/04/Release_therapy3.JPG
Lookin like soft as Usher
That song like brenda's got a baby is sad & moving

― luriqua, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 04:53 (eighteen years ago)

O yea, GO 2 SLEEP

― luriqua, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 04:58 (eighteen years ago)

most-slept-on ludacris I-20 3-6 diamond

2-0, mr. crayola; *****s know what i mean
cuz i slang brown white yellow purple and green

― luriqua, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 05:05 (eighteen years ago)

Southern Hospitality
What's Your Fantasy
Get Back
Southern Fried Intro
Roll Out

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 05:07 (eighteen years ago)

saturday (ooh)
the potion
number one spot
get back
southern hospitality

― blueski, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 09:49 (eighteen years ago)

hmm i thought i answered this already. anyway, my favorite is

FREAKY THANGS

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

Read your horoscope and eat some horderves
Ten on pump one, these hoes is self serve

― Pye Poudre, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 12:59 (eighteen years ago)

tan skin so butter soft, i'm rippin the buttons off your - BLOUSE
smell the aroma of a dingaling king ludacris when i'm in your - HOUSE
check out the ratio of men to women and women to men when down - SOUTH
hot fellatio, hot jalapenos, holla while i'm in your - MOUTH

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

plus twista calling himself "mr. mcgillicutty"

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

plus jagged edge completely ripping it up!

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

plus "tallywhacker is a rock hard storm trooper with a purple helmet / made for crushin
pink cookies / goonie goo-goo, we cut bigfoots and wookies / and fat women, because they need love too / so go on big girl, whatchu gon do?"

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

His verse on the Made Ya Look remix! "just a victim of society, it's Chris the menace / with more shit out on the streets / than evicted tenants!"

― sous les paves, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

the lame Redman/Timbo single makes you realize how Ludacris really took his place

― deej, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha true.

I miss Redman being the best rapper ever.

― Tim F, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 23:39 (eighteen years ago)

I've always thought of him as more the new version of Busta Rhymes - great for a single or cameo, but about intolerable for a whole lp.

Back when Bus was still tolerable for a single or cameo, anyway.

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 23:44 (eighteen years ago)

SUB-QUESTION:

Which Luda track contains the quintessential "Oh my GAWD!"?

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

i don't know but "da rockwilder" by meth and redman has my favorite "oh my gawd" at the beginning of it

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

What's Your Fantasy?
Splash Waterfalls
Teamwork
Georgia
Phat Rabbit

― da croupier, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

oh shit, replace Phat Rabbit with "B R Right."

― da croupier, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

what's your fantasy?
southern hospitality
roll out
freaky thangs
stand up

yeah, predictable.

gossip folks
b r right
oh
yeah

for the guest spots

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

"I love a fat chick with a body enormous/ it ain't about the weight yo its how they performance."

Oh wait thats redman again

― deej, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

Not enough love for "Georgia" on here.

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

six years pass...

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― ill never click this homo erotic site again (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 16 November 2013 23:27 (eleven years ago)

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