Ludacris

A master of the punchline with a knack for making huge hits, Ludacris' sophomore record is full of the same bugged humor and catchy production that made his debut so hot. Timbaland, Swizz Beats, and Organized Noize provide ear-tickling beats galore, while Luda continues to wreck mics. Includes the hit singles "Area Codes" and "Rollout."

Atlanta's ludacris may be the only rapper who currently boasts about being both good at
Scrabble and rowdier than Rowdy Roddy Piper. Oddly enough, Word of Mouf alternates
between bleak, nearly joyless hardcore and verbalistic hip-hop slapstick. Unlike the
rapper's debut, Back for the First Time, which was littered with futuristic bleeps that
wouldn't be out of place on an electronica album, the sonics here are more of t... More >

It was ludicrous for an employee of the Fox Network, especially a lying bully like Bill O'Reilly, to criticize anyone else for coarsening public discourse. It was amusing to watch the Britney pimps at Pepsi cave first to O'Reilly and then to Ludacris, who with the help of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network held Pepsi up for a few million to "support the arts in communities at risk," a matter in which I eagerly await the Ludacris Foundation's audited progress report. Also, he raps and rhymes with gusto, and I like his Timbaland beat so much I don't want to know how real its Glocks are. Nevertheless, he is or impersonates a no-class pimp motherf*cker, and if he never reached a one of the nine-year-olds O'Reilly yammers about, he would still be coarsening public discourse. Song after song pumps the pimp theory that all women are whores. Rotate good-humored dance songs in which the best thing you say about female persons is that they crave your tallywhacker and the worst is that you'll murder them if they bother, and you'll change how real human beings of both sexes think and behave. Anyone who claims different is certainly a liar and probably a bully. (Grade - B-)