With Quick X looming, one of many franchise’s heralded stars, Ludacris, sat down with Tamron Corridor to debate his upcoming tenth studio album and what followers can anticipate, and Billboard has an unique first look.
“We’re positively gonna get some music earlier than the tip of this yr,” revealed the “Southern Hospitality” star on the Tuesday (Could 16) episode of the Tamron Corridor Present. “I’d say an album, in all probability subsequent yr.”
Luda’s final studio album got here in 2015, titled Ludaversal. It debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and included options from Usher, Miguel, Monica and Large Okay.R.I.T.
Luda quipped with Corridor in regards to the challenge’s delay, blaming the Quick & Livid franchise’s hectic capturing schedule on the wait. “They maintain capturing extra motion pictures. What am I speculated to do?” he joked.
Regardless of his busy schedule, Luda has discovered time to crank out freestyles on social media. Final yr, he caught the eye of his 15 million Instagram followers when he delivered a blistering verse over Armani White’s viral Billboard Scorching 100 hit “Billie Eilish.” The submit not solely sits at a whopping 858,000 views on Instagram, however earned him an invite to the burgeoning rapper’s “Legends Combine” of the music that includes Busta Rhymes and N.O.R.E. Months later, on April 20, Luda dropped one other freestyle, accrued staggering numbers, and neared the 800,000 mark.
“Once I was younger, I really feel like a few of my favourite rappers, as soon as they get to a sure level, it’s virtually such as you want that they have been nonetheless form of hungry and you’re feeling like they don’t have it essentially like they used to. I by no means wished to be that,” he shared. “So it’s extraordinarily necessary for me to show to those that despite the fact that I’m doing all this different stuff, make no mistake, I nonetheless bought it, and I’m nonetheless as hungry.”
Watch Luda’s interview clip with Tamron Corridor above. Test your native listings for airtime.
