Ludacris may encourage having girls in different area codes, but the rapper isn’t one to shy away from promoting safe sex as well.
Jesse McCartney is looking to take his career from boy-next-door pop singer to edgy R&B crooner, and his new single seems to be paving the way for the transition. Usually known for sugary pop hits like “Beautiful Soul,” McCartney decided that wanted to work with Ludacris for the remix of his song “How Do You Sleep?” Now the pair promise that the Sean Garrett-produced track is going to be the jam of 2009. “We’re setting the bar high for 2009 features,” McCartney told MTV News on the set of the track’s video. “It’s gonna be a big year. It’s gonna… Read more »
Tom Petty may be the official Super Bowl halftime performer, but the week leading up to the big game will feature plenty of other performers – and Ludacris will be among them. The 30-year-old rapper has been selected to perform at ESPN The Magazine’s Next party Feb. 1, which will highlight future trends in sports, technology and lifestyle. The Super Bowl is Feb. 3 at the University of Phoenix Stadium. “(It) feels good to be back in Arizona,” said Ludacris in a statement. “Phoenix is the hometown of my artist Willie Northpole so it’s only right to bring `Disturbing Tha… Read more »
Sum 41 drummer Steve Jocz’s mind is racing. He’s just learned that his band will serve as an opening act on Mötley Crüe’s summer-long Carnival of Sin Tour, and as such, he’s trying really hard to think up ways he can match Crüe drummer Tommy Lee’s nearly patented drum-solo heroics (including, but not limited to, being raised in the air and pulling full 360s while bashing the kit). “Man, I don’t know,” he laughed. “I might get my drum tech to push my drum kit forward and then pull it back really fast. Or maybe we’ll put it on wheels… Read more »
Does hip-hop speak to Pepsi’s “new generation”? Well, it depends on who you ask. Last week, Fox News Channel’s conservative ranter Bill O’Reilly denounced the soda giant for choosing Ludacris to appear in Pepsi ads, calling him a “thug rapper” who “espouses violence, intoxication, and degrading conduct toward women.” Just one day later, Pepsi announced that it was dropping Luda as its spokesperson and apologizing to anyone who was offended by its association with him. This move came despite Pepsi’s own research which had found that teens ranked the soda’s hip-hop spokesperson as popular as any celebrity associated with the… Read more »
Ludacris, Avril Lavigne and Disturbing tha Peace will perform during the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards Opening Act, the precursor to the actual awards show on August 29th at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. The latest group of performers joins an already long list of main event acts, including Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Eminem, the Hives, Sheryl Crow, Ja Rule and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs. Brandy, Usher, Linkin Park and P.O.D. have been added to the cast of presenters. Saturday Night Live’s Jimmy Fallon, who releases The Bathroom Wall on August 27th, will host.
Eminem, Ludacris, Papa Roach and the X-ecutioners will tour together this summer on a still-untitled outing. Dates have not been finalized, but a spokesperson for Papa Roach said the tour will begin in July. Eminem and Papa Roach, who shared a bill on the Anger Management Tour in the fall of 2000, will both be promoting new high-profile releases. Slim Shady’s The Eminem Show is due June 4, while Lovehatetragedy, Papa Roach’s second major-label album, is due June 18. Ludacris, who recently finished a headlining club trek, will be supporting last year’s Word of Mouf, which features the hit single… Read more »
Ludacris is putting his money where his Mouf is and betting fans will come out to see his live show. The Atlanta rapper will hit clubs and theaters in more than a dozen North American cities beginning February 13 in Orlando, Florida, according to his Def Jam Records spokesperson. More dates may be added. Ludacris is supporting his second album, Word of Mouf, released in November. Currently #4 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, the LP includes the single “Saturday (Oooh Oooh!)”. His first album, Back for the First Time, released in October 2000, will compete for the Best Rap… Read more »
Over the past week there were explosive developments concerning the fate of American Taliban member John Walker Lindh, imploding energy company Enron and president Bush’s problems with pretzels, but very little has been changing on the album chart. That means Creed’s Weathered will hang on to the #1 slot of next week’s Billboard 200, giving the band a solid two-month run as top dogs. Linkin Park will hold tight at #2 with Hybrid Theory as they embark on their last tour before working on new material, Ludacris will remain steady at #3 with Word of Mouf and Nickelback’s Silver Side… Read more »
Ludacris, O-Town, India.Arie, Lifehouse and Nelly Furtado are the latest crop of presenters confirmed for the 29th annual American Music Awards, taking place January 9 in Los Angeles, while Lenny Kravitz, Toby Keith and Yolanda Adams have come aboard as performers. Also slated to dole out the show’s 21 awards to winners – which will be determined solely by fan votes – are Blu Cantrell, Melissa Etheridge, Ginuwine, Method Man, Nelly, Jamie O’Neal, Redman, LeAnn Rimes, Shedaisy, Trick Pony, Tyrese, Luther Vandross and Master P. with his son Lil’ Romeo, according to an AMA spokesperson. Previously announced performers include Kid… Read more »
