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* CityShoutOuts: In the remix to "Welcome to Atlanta", Jermaine Dupri, P. Diddy, Snoop Dogg, and Murphy Lee rave about their hometowns as well --New York, Los Angeles, and St. Louis respectively. This song spawned a small meme among hip-hop fans, adding verses about ''their'' hometowns if it wasn't one of the above.
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* AesopAmnesia: In the video for "One More Drink", Ludacris is telling what looks like a support group about his drunken escapades that led him there. One night, he got so blackout drunk that he slept with a wildly unattractive woman. After [[AnArmAndALeg gnawing off his arm]] to escape from her grasp, he calls up his buddies "Cuz tonight, damn right, I might do it again!"
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* AesopAmnesia: In the video for "One More Drink", Ludacris is telling what looks like a support group about his drunken escapades that led him there. One night, he got so blackout drunk that he slept with a wildly unattractive woman. After [[AnArmAndALeg gnawing off his arm]] to escape from her grasp, he calls up his buddies "Cuz for yet another night of inebriated foolishness;"Cuz tonight, damn right, I might do it again!"
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* AesopAmnesia: In the video for "One More Drink", Ludacris is telling what looks like a support group about his drunken escapades that led him there. One night, he got so blackout drunk that he slept with a wildly unattractive woman. After [[AnArmAndALeg gnawing off his arm]] to escape from her grasp, he calls up his buddies "Cuz tonight, damn right, I might do it again!"
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* StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks: "How Low" is a song about women ShakingTheRump to Ludacris' music.
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* ComicsRuleEverythingAroundMe: The song "Press the Start Button" is one video game reference after the other.
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* ShoutOut: The song "Press the Start Button" is one video game reference after the other.
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* AWildRapperAppears: His big pop breakthrough as a featured artist on "[[Music/{{Usher}} Yeah!]]" established him as the master of this trope, and he remained one of the premier rappers for pop song features during the mid to late 2000's.
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Christopher Brian Bridges, better known as Ludacris, is perhaps one of the most influential American rappers out there. He was born in Champaign, Illinois on September 11, 1977, and he moved to Atlanta when he was nine years old. After a temporary job as a DJ, he released his first album, ''Incognegro'', in 1999.
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Christopher Brian Bridges, Bridges (born September 11, 1977), better known as Ludacris, is perhaps one of the most influential American rappers out there. He was born in Champaign, Illinois on September 11, 1977, Illinois, and he moved to Atlanta when he was nine years old. After a temporary job as a DJ, he released his first album, ''Incognegro'', in 1999.
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* CreatorProvincialism: The song "Move Bitch" has the lyrics "doing 100 on the highway, so if you do the speed limit, get the fuck outta my way". In the metric system, 100 mph is 62 kilometers per hour, so if he did this in a country that uses the metric system, the speed would be different.
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* CreatorProvincialism: The song "Move Bitch" has the lyrics "doing 100 on the highway, so if you do the speed limit, get the fuck outta my way". In the metric system, 100 mph is 62 kilometers per hour is 62 miles per hour, so if he did this in a country that uses the metric system, the speed would be different.
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* AGirlInEveryPort: His song "Area Codes" has him brag about this in a lesser degree. The song contains the lyrics "I got hoes/In different area codes", so he's basically describing that he has a lot of girlfriends spread all across the ''Country''. Those area codes range from Atlanta to New York, Houston to Los Angeles, and all the way to Hawaii.
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* AGirlInEveryPort: His song "Area Codes" AbusiveParents: The first two verses of "Runaway Love" (Lisa having a drug-addicted mother who constantly brings home men who molest her daughter and doesn't believe her when she tells her so while Nicole has him brag about this in a lesser degree. The song contains the lyrics "I got hoes/In different area codes", so he's basically describing that he has a lot of girlfriends spread all across the ''Country''. Those area codes range from Atlanta to New York, Houston to Los Angeles, and all the way to Hawaii. an alcoholic stepfather who beats her).
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* AGirlInEveryPort: His song "Area Codes" has him brag about this in a lesser degree. The song contains the lyrics "I got hoes/In different area codes", so he's basically describing that he has a lot of girlfriends spread all across the ''Country''. Those area codes range from Atlanta to New York, Houston to Los Angeles, and all the way to Hawaii.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Firmly averted on "Runaway Love". It's treated as a good, if not best, choice for a pregnant 11-year old, but Erica's family doesn't have the money to pay for one.
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* TropeCodifier: More than anyone else, Ludacris defined and popularized the 2000s Dirty South sound and was one of the people who put Atlanta on the map, and in general, if it wasn't Lil Jon breaking someone who was from or associated with Atlanta in the 2000s, it was probably Ludacris.
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* AGirlInEveryPort: His song "Area Codes" has him brag about this in a lesser degree. The song contains the lyrics "I got hoes/In different area codes", so he's basically describing that he has a lot of girlfriends spread all across a city.
** The ''Country''. Those area codes range from Atlanta to New York, Houston to Los Angeles, and all the way to Hawaii.
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* AGirlInEveryPort: His song "Area Codes" has him brag about this in a lesser degree. The song contains the lyrics "I got hoes/In different area codes", so he's basically describing that he has a lot of girlfriends spread all across a city.
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Ludacris (real name Christopher Brian Bridges, born September 11, 1977) is perhaps one of the most influential American rappers out there. He was born in Champaign, Illinois in 1977, and moved to Atlanta when he was nine years old. After a temporary job as a DJ, he released his first album, ''Incognegro'', in 1999.
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* TheRunaway: "Runaway Love" describes several runaway people and the circumstances which caused them to run away in the first place.
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: From his guest verse on DJ Khaled's "All I Do is Win":
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Ludacris (real name Christopher Brian Bridges) Bridges, born September 11, 1977) is perhaps one of the most influential American rappers out there. He was born in Champaign, Illinois in 1977, and moved to Atlanta when he was nine years old. After a temporary job as a DJ, he released his first album, ''Incognegro'', in 1999.
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: "One More Drink" follows Ludacris and Music/TPain as they binge on booze and get into all sorts of bizarre antics.
* CatchPhrase: He usually precedes his guest verses on others' songs with "Luda!"
** More specifically, he's quite fond of mentioning his hometown of Atlanta, GA.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: From his guest verse on DJ Khaled's "All I Do is Win":
--> "Can't never count me out! Y'all better count me in!\\
Got 20 bank accounts; accountants count me in!"
--> "Can't never count me out! Y'all better count me in!\\
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* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: The subject of "What's Your Fantasy?", which describes making love in a ''lot'' of places where one would not be expected to do such a thing. In a classroom? On the beach? In a club? That's just the tip of the iceberg.
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* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: The subject of "What's Your Fantasy?", which describes making love in a ''lot'' of places where one would not be expected to do such a thing. In a classroom? On the beach? In a club? That's just the tip of the iceberg. Hell, even THE WHITE HOUSE isn't off-limits to him!
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* ProtestSong: "Politics as Usual" from 2008, in which Ludacris rips into political figures such as John [=McCain=], UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, Jesse Jackson, and Hillary Clinton.
--> "Now Jesse talkin' slick and apologizin' for what? If you said it then you meant it"\\
"McCain don't belong in any chair unless he's paralyzed"\\
"Yeah I said it, 'cuz Bush is mentally handicapped / Ball up all of his speeches and throw 'em just like candy wraps / 'Cuz what you talkin' I hear nothin' even relevant / you the worst of all 43 presidents"\\
"Hillary hated on [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama you]], so that bitch is irrelevant"
* StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks: "How Low" is a song about women ShakingTheRump to Ludacris' music.
--> "Now Jesse talkin' slick and apologizin' for what? If you said it then you meant it"\\
"McCain don't belong in any chair unless he's paralyzed"\\
"Yeah I said it, 'cuz Bush is mentally handicapped / Ball up all of his speeches and throw 'em just like candy wraps / 'Cuz what you talkin' I hear nothin' even relevant / you the worst of all 43 presidents"\\
"Hillary hated on [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama you]], so that bitch is irrelevant"
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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Played for laughs in "One More Drink". Ludacris gets wicked drunk and hooks up with a woman that, sans BeerGoggles, looks really ugly. He remembers none of this, and he has to [[LifeOrLimbDecision chew off one of his arms to escape the woman's bed]].
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* DeathOfAChild: In "Runaway Love", ten year old Nicole befriends another girl her age called Stacey. One day, Stacey is accidentally shot by a driveby bullet. Left alone in the world, this spurs Nicole to runaway.
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* AWildRapperAppears: One of the standout examples of this trope, doing verses in songs by Fergie, Music/{{Usher}, Music/JustinBieber, Enrique Iglesias, and even Music/CarrieUnderwood.
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* LargeHam: He's a loud and large presence, and has no shame in it. "MOVE! GET OUT THE WAY! GET OUT THE WAY!"
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* {{Portmantitle}}: The title of his first album, ''Incognegro'', is a combination of the words "incognito" and "negro".
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* MoralityBallad: "Runaway Love", about the lives of various runaways and the circumstances leading to them running away.
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* BoastfulRap: "Stand Up", which has him rap about his various club antics.
** "Beast Mode," an entire song about him bragging about how awesome he is
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Ludacris (real name Christopher Brian Bridges) is perhaps one of the most influential American rappers out there. He was born in Champaign, Illinois, Illinois in 1977, and moved to Atlanta when he was nine years old. After a temporary job as a DJ, he released his first album, ''Incognegro'', in 1999.
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* HashtagRap: Present in "My Chick Bad", which contains the lyrics "comin' down the street like a parade - Macy's". * MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: The subject of "What's Your Fantasy?", which describes making love in a ''lot'' of places where one would not be expected to do such a thing. In a classroom? On the beach? In a club? That's just the tip of the iceberg.
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* HashtagRap: Present in "My Chick Bad", which contains the lyrics "comin' down the street like a parade - Macy's". Macy's".
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: The subject of "What's Your Fantasy?", which describes making love in a ''lot'' of places where one would not be expected to do such a thing. In a classroom? On the beach? In a club? That's just the tip of the iceberg.
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: The subject of "What's Your Fantasy?", which describes making love in a ''lot'' of places where one would not be expected to do such a thing. In a classroom? On the beach? In a club? That's just the tip of the iceberg.
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(Sidenote to anyone who actually bothers to read this edit reason: I'm not that familiar with Ludacris and his music, so I may have forgotten some important details in this page's description or trope list. If you notice any such info I missed here, by all means, feel free to add it to the page.)
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Ludacris (real name Christopher Brian Bridges) is perhaps one of the most influential American rappers out there. He was born in Champaign, Illinois, and moved to Atlanta when he was nine years old. After a temporary job as a DJ, he released his first album, ''Incognegro'', in 1999.
He is also known to appear as an actor in several films. In particular, he plays Tej Parker in ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' films.
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!!Ludacris's discography:
* ''Incognegro'' (1999)
* ''Back for the First Time'' (2000)
* ''Word of Mouf'' (2001)
* ''Chicken-n-Beer'' (2003)
* ''The Red Light District'' (2004)
* ''Release Therapy'' (2006)
* ''Theater of the Mind'' (2008)
* ''Battle of the Sexes'' (2010)
* ''Ludaversal'' (2015)
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!!Tropes present in Ludacris's songs:
* AGirlInEveryPort: His song "Area Codes" has him brag about this in a lesser degree. The song contains the lyrics "I got hoes/In different area codes", so he's basically describing that he has a lot of girlfriends spread all across a city.
* BoastfulRap: "Stand Up", which has him rap about his various club antics.
* ComicsRuleEverythingAroundMe: The song "Press the Start Button" is one video game reference after the other.
* CreatorProvincialism: The song "Move Bitch" has the lyrics "doing 100 on the highway, so if you do the speed limit, get the fuck outta my way". In the metric system, 100 mph is 62 kilometers per hour, so if he did this in a country that uses the metric system, the speed would be different.
* HashtagRap: Present in "My Chick Bad", which contains the lyrics "comin' down the street like a parade - Macy's". * MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: The subject of "What's Your Fantasy?", which describes making love in a ''lot'' of places where one would not be expected to do such a thing. In a classroom? On the beach? In a club? That's just the tip of the iceberg.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: The third verse of "Runaway Love" describes how little Erica, who is eleven years old, accidentally got pregnant as a result of having unprotected sex.
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He is also known to appear as an actor in several films. In particular, he plays Tej Parker in ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' films.
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!!Ludacris's discography:
* ''Incognegro'' (1999)
* ''Back for the First Time'' (2000)
* ''Word of Mouf'' (2001)
* ''Chicken-n-Beer'' (2003)
* ''The Red Light District'' (2004)
* ''Release Therapy'' (2006)
* ''Theater of the Mind'' (2008)
* ''Battle of the Sexes'' (2010)
* ''Ludaversal'' (2015)
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!!Tropes present in Ludacris's songs:
* AGirlInEveryPort: His song "Area Codes" has him brag about this in a lesser degree. The song contains the lyrics "I got hoes/In different area codes", so he's basically describing that he has a lot of girlfriends spread all across a city.
* BoastfulRap: "Stand Up", which has him rap about his various club antics.
* ComicsRuleEverythingAroundMe: The song "Press the Start Button" is one video game reference after the other.
* CreatorProvincialism: The song "Move Bitch" has the lyrics "doing 100 on the highway, so if you do the speed limit, get the fuck outta my way". In the metric system, 100 mph is 62 kilometers per hour, so if he did this in a country that uses the metric system, the speed would be different.
* HashtagRap: Present in "My Chick Bad", which contains the lyrics "comin' down the street like a parade - Macy's". * MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: The subject of "What's Your Fantasy?", which describes making love in a ''lot'' of places where one would not be expected to do such a thing. In a classroom? On the beach? In a club? That's just the tip of the iceberg.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: The third verse of "Runaway Love" describes how little Erica, who is eleven years old, accidentally got pregnant as a result of having unprotected sex.
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