Ludacris couldn’t comprise his pleasure in his yearslong grind to lastly take dwelling finest rap album on the Grammy Awards, which he did when Launch Remedy reached the rap Grammy mountaintop on the 2007 ceremony.
Luda let his feelings pour out backstage as he celebrated loudly together with his group, which Justin Timberlake apparently overheard within the room subsequent door, because the *NSYNC singer informed the Atlanta rapper to pipe down.
The Hen-n-Beer rhymer joined Sean Evans for an episode on Scorching Ones on Thursday (April 18), and he clarified particulars of the backstage argument with Timberlake after it resurfaced and went viral earlier this 12 months.
“The Web went a bit loopy with it. He undoubtedly meant it, but it surely was no cursing out. He was behind the scenes and I used to be celebrating so brazenly and I used to be so loud,” Ludacris defined. “I believe it was stated extra in enjoyable, however there was undoubtedly some fact behind it. Like, ‘OK, present’s not over. Cease celebrating so brazenly, I haven’t gained any but.’ With a smile on his face kind of factor.”
Ludacris pulled as much as Drink Champs in February, the place he expanded on the mix-up with JT backstage. “Right now, they’d all of the artists separated by curtains, so motherf—ers weren’t in particular rooms. I say that to say I get again and I’m like, ‘Yeah! F— yeah! I made it! I did it! I gained! I actually got down to get a Grammy and I obtained it!’” he stated.
“Impulsively, I hear this voice from the opposite aspect of the curtain. They yell, ‘Shut the f— up! A few of us didn’t win any God—n Grammys at this time!’ I pull the curtain again and this n—a Justin Timberlake is on the opposite aspect of that motherf—er.”
Finest rap album wasn’t the one {hardware} Ludacris took dwelling on the ’07 Grammys: The Pharrell-assisted “Cash Maker” gained finest rap track honors too.
Ludacris mirrored on setting a objective to make Launch Remedy so simple that the Recording Academy needed to give him the Grammy trophy.
“The rationale was this was for all of those years, I need to say it was 9 or 10 years, I used to be in the identical class of solo male rap artist as Eminem, 50 Cent, DMX, Jay-Z. So I lastly obtained to some extent [where] I used to be so constant that I simply constructed up this momentum and I lastly had my time,” Ludacris stated.
“That was in all probability one of many — if not the — finest occasions in my profession for actually setting out and ensuring I had a objective and undertaking that objective… It meant every part to me.”
Launch Remedy debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 following its September 2006 launch, with 309,000 albums bought within the first week.
For the document, Timberlake additionally gained two Grammys that 12 months — finest dance recording for “SexyBack” (that includes Timbaland) and finest rap/sung collaboration for “My Love” (that includes T.I.). JT misplaced in two different classes that 12 months — album of the 12 months and finest pop vocal album, each for his megahit FutureSex/LoveSounds.
Elsewhere in Luda’s Scorching Ones check — which he aces — the rapper reveals he’s associated to legendary comic Richard Pryor and remembers Ben Stiller inviting him over for a personal screening of Tropic Thunder to get his clearance to make use of “Get Again” within the movie.
Watch the total episode under. Discuss of the Timberlake/Luda spat begins across the 8:45 mark.