Ludacris

With his booming voice, outlandish lyricism, and eagerness to collaborate with artists across genres, Ludacris is an outsized presence in hip-hop. When the Dirty South movement broke nationwide in the late '90s and early 2000s, the Atlanta-based rapper rode it to immediate widespread popularity, becoming arguably the most commercially successful Southern rapper of the time. The entirety of the aughts found the rapper scoring hit after mainstream hit and topping the Billboard 200 with albums such as Chicken-N-Beer (2003), The Red Light District (2004), Release Therapy (2006), a...