  Chris Bridges - Ludacris - was
born on September 11, 1977, in Georgia.
Before hitting it big in the rap world,
Ludacris found some success with his own
independent release, Incognegro. The success of Incognegro led to a
contract with Def Jam Records, and Incognegro was re-released as his
debut LP - Back
For The First Time.
Ludacris could be heard on Timbaland's LP Tim's
Bio: Life Fram Da Basement on the track "Fat
Rabbit."
 # 160
Singles Artist of the Year
Ludacris released Back
For The First Time.
 Back
For The First Time was certified
platinum.
Ludacris hit the Top 40 with
"What's Your Fantasy."
 # 63
Singles Artist of the Year
Ludacris hit the Top 10 with "What's Your Fantasy."
Ludacris hit the Top 40 with
"Southern Hospitality."
Back
For The First Time was certified 2x
platinum.
 Ludacris topped the Billboard
R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart
for 2 weeks with "Loverboy" (the remix of Mariah Carey's hit which featured
Ludacris & Da Brat).
Ludacris could also be
heard helping out Missy Elliott with her hit "One
Minute Man."
 Ludacris released Word
Of Mouf.
Ludacris could be heard on Timbaland &
Magoo's LP Indecent
Proposal on the track "Considerate
Brotha."
 # 30
Singles Artist of the Year
Word
Of Mouf was certified platinum.
Ludacris hit
the Top 40 with "Roll Out (My Business)."
 Ludacris was
nominated for 2 Grammy Awards including Best Rap Album (Back
For The First Time) and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ("Area
Codes" which features Nate Dogg).
Ludacris hit the Top 40 with Jermaine
Dupri with "Welcome To Atlanta" from Dupri's LP
- Instructions.
Word
Of Mouf was certified 2x platinum.
Ludacris hit
the Top 10 with "Roll Out (My Business)."
Back
For The First Time was certified 3x
platinum.
 Ludacris hit the Top 40 with
"Saturday (Oooh Oooh!)."
Ludacris toured the summer as
part of the Anger Management Tour with Eminem, Papa Roach,
Xzibit, and the X-ecutioners.
Ludacris topped the MTV Video
Countdown with "Move."
The video for "Saturday (Oooh Oooh!)" was nominated
for a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Rap Video and the video for
"Area Codes" (with Nate
Dogg) was nominated for Best Video from a Film. Ludacris'
contribution to Missy
Elliott's video "One Minute
Man" was also nominated for 6 awards
including Best Direction. Ludacris performed at
the ceremony's opening act show.
Ludacris was dropped as
a Pepsi sponsor after Fox News Channel's Bill
O'Reilly denounced the rapper as a
"...thug rapper... (who) espouses
violence, intoxication, and degrading conduct
toward women."
Word
Of Mouf was certified 3x platinum.
 # 37
Singles Artist of the Year
Ludacris was
nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite Hip-Hop/R&B
Album.
 Missy hit the
top 40 with Missy Elliott with "Gossip Folks."
Ludacris was
nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best Rap Album (Word
Of Mouf) and Best Rap Solo Performance - Male ("Roll Out (My Business)").
Ludacris hit
the Top 10 with Missy Elliott with "Gossip Folks."
 Ludacris could be heard on the
soundtrack for 2
Fast 2 Furious with "Act A Fool" and
"Pick Up The Phone" (with R. Kelly and Tyrese)
- and also co-starred in the film.
Ludacris' video for
"Move" was nominated for a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Rap Video.
 Ludacris
released Chicken
& Beer.
Chicken
& Beer topped the Billboard 200 LP
chart for a week and R&B/Hip-Hop LP chart
selling for 2 weeks over 429,000 copies its
first week of release in the US.
Ludacris topped
the Billboard Rap chart for 8 weeks with
"Stand Up."
 Ludacris topped
the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles
& Tracks chart for 5 weeks, Rhythmic Top
40 chart, and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay
chart for 5 weeks with "Stand Up."
Ludacris hit
the Top 40 helped out by Shawnna
with "Stand Up."
Ludacris hit the Top 40 helping
out Chingy and also featuring Snoop
Dogg with "Holidae In."
Chicken
& Beer was certified platinum.
 Ludacris topped
the Billboard 100 singles chart for a week
and Hot 100 Airplay chart for a week with
"Stand Up."
Ludacris hit
the Top 10 with "Stand Up."
 # 23
Singles Artist of the Year
Ludacris hit
the Top 40 helping out Usher with "Yeah."
Ludacris was nominated for 3 Grammy Awards including Best Rap Performance by a Duo or
Group ("Gossip Folks"
with Missy
Elliott), Best Rap Solo Performance - Male ("Stand Up"),
and Best Song Written for a Motion Picture,
Television or Other Visual Media (songwriter)
("Act A Fool" with Keith
McMasters).
Ludacris began touring with Chingy.
Ludacris topped the Billboard
Hot 100 for 12 weeks helping out Usher with "Yeah."
Ludacris topped the Billboard
Top 40 Tracks chart, Hot 100 Airplay chart,
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, and Hot
R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart
for 8 weeks helping out Usher with "Yeah."
Ludacris hit
the Top 40 with "Splash Waterfalls."
Ludacris hit #1 for 4 weeks helping
out Usher with "Yeah."
Ludacris topped
the UK singles chart helping out Usher with "Yeah."
Ludacris topped
the Canadian singles chart helping out Usher with "Yeah."
Chicken
& Beer was certified 2x platinum.
 The video for "Stand Up" was nominated
for a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Rap Video. The video for "Yeah" won for Best Male Video and Best Dance Video and was also nominated
for Video of the Year and Best Choreography. The video for "Holidae In" was nominated
for a MTV Video Music
Award including Best Hip-Hop Video.
Ludacris could be heard on the
soundtrack for Shark
Tale with "Gold Digger."
Ludacris could be heard on Ciara's LP Goodies on the track
"Oh."
 Ludacris won 2 Source Awards for
Male Artist of the Year and R&B/Rap
Collaboration ("Yeah").
The singles "Stand Up" and "Yeah" were certified
gold.
The single "Yeah" was certified
platinum.
Ludacris
released his next LP Red
Light District.
Ludacris hit the Top 40 helping
out Lil Jon and Usher with "Lovers & Friends" from Lil
Jon's LP Crunk
Juice.
 Ludacris topped
the Billboard 200 LP chart for a week and Top
R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart for a week with Red
Light District selling over 322,000 copies its
first week of release in the US.
Ludacris hit
the Top 40 with "Get Back."
# 222 on the Top Pop Artists
of the Past 25 Years chart.
 # 22
Singles Artist of the Year
 Ludacris topped the Billboard
Hot Rap Tracks chart helping out Lil
Jon and Usher with
"Lovers & Friends."
Ludacris hit the Top 10 helping out Lil
Jon and Usher with "Lovers
& Friends."
Red
Light District was certified platinum.
Ludacris won a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
("Yeah" with Usher and Lil Jon), and
was nominated for Record of the Year and Best R&B Song
(awarded to the songwriter) ("Yeah" with Usher and Lil Jon).
The single
"Get Back" was certified
gold.
Ludacris topped the Billboard
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart and
Rhythmic Airplay chart helping out Lil
Jon and Usher with
"Lovers & Friends."
 The single
"Get Back" was certified
platinum.
Ludacris hit
the Top 40 helping out Ciara with "Oh."
Ludacris could
be seen in the film Crash.
Ludacris topped
the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart and
Rhythmic Airplay chart helping out Ciara with "Oh."
 Ludacris hit
the Top 10 helping out Ciara with "Oh."
The single "Number One
Spot" was certified gold.
Ludacris hit
the Top 40 with "Pimpin' All Over The
World."
 The video for "Number One Spot"
won a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Rap Video and was nominated for Best Special Effects. The video for "Oh" was nominated
for Best R&B Video. Ludacris performed at
the ceremony.
Red
Light District was certified 2x platinum.
Ludacris was nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Male Artist.
 Ludacris could be heard on The Notorious
B.I.G. posthumous creation - Duets:
The Final Chapter.
Ludacris could
be heard on Ludacris
Presents Disturbing Tha Peace.
 # 47
Singles Artist of the Year
Ludacris hit the Top 40 helping
out Jamie Foxx with "Unpredictable" from Foxx's LP Unpredictable.
 Ludacris won a Screen Actors
Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a
Cast in a Motion Picture for his contribution
to Crash.
Ludacris was
nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance ("Number One
Spot").
The single
"Get Back" was certified 2x
platinum and "Number One Spot" was
certified platinum.
 Ludacris
performed at the MTV Video Music
Awards.
Ludacris released Release
Therapy.
Ludacris hit the Top 40 with Pharrell
with "Money Maker."
Ludacris topped the Billboard
200 LP chart and Top Rap Albums chart
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