Despite focusing the latter part of his career on acting and other media ventures, ATL rapper Ludacris insists that his music days aren’t over — a suggestion many fans and commentators have lodged online.
“[It’s] definitely not dead, not at all,” Ludacris said while speaking with The Shade Room at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday (August 27). “I’m just taking my time putting out some more music.”
Despite having released just two full-length albums since the turn of the decade (2010’s Battle Of The Sexes and 2015’s Ludaversal), Ludacris maintains that music is still number one for him.
“When you get to the ninth album stage and you’ve sold over 20 million records, sometime it’s a process and you just gotta take your time with the process. It’s expected. Any artist that takes a lot of time in-between albums, you always gon’ have people that say that. But music is number one. If it wasn’t for music, I wouldn’t be where I’m at right now.”
Luda dropped a video for “Vitamin D” with Ty Dolla $ign in April, which led to some speculation that he was prepping a new album, although so far details are still scarce.
He’s also been keeping busy playing Tej Parker in The Fast And The Furious franchise — the most recent eighth installment of which grossed $1.2 billion worldwide.
Glad he’s taking his time. Ludaversal was in the right direction.
It’s over
Depends on how you define over. If over means his 2005 fame or will he be mentioned with the current rappers, then yes it’s over. But if continues to make music for his fans then its not over.
I’d say 2008. Theater of the Mind was cool and got a lot of radio play where im from.
You’re right. Theater did get a lot of radio love. I thought the album was cool too.
Hip hop is the only form of art that write its older artist off or attempt to, its the old divide and conquer that still works today after over 100 years ,its power to the people to not let select few heard the public like cattle into whats hot and whats not
I walked out on Ludacris performing here in Australia a few years ago after he done MVP (Produced by DJ Premier), which was so satisfying compared to his bullshit melody of feature verses on every other hit single in the 00’s, which quite frankly is annoying. His set was horrible as the song changed every minute, and left no time to resonate with the audience. It was too braggadocios to get any feeling from. His career is like an album sampler of song snippets…
I agree with you 100%.
…MVP is his best song to date. No doubt about that.