"Conceptual-wise, every song you hear plays out like a scene from the movie." Luda said while speaking to MTV " Whether it's storytelling, me giving you the real of what's going on in the world, you gotta look at it as your imagination is gonna run wild with every song you hear."
To tide fans over until the album is released he is releasing a "Gangsta Grillz" mixtape titled "Preview" which he is putting the finishing touches on now.
"Album number six is on the way. So with that said, we got the mixtape, The Preview — the preview to the damn movie. It's all about lyrical exercise. I been gone, opening up a restaurant in Atlanta, doing movies here and there, just a little bit of everything. It's time to get back in the music game. It's been a long time, but we back on that ass."
The mixtape will have feature tracks beats from songs such as "Blue Magic", and "Still Tippin" as Luda has picked beats of songs he has always wanted to rhyme on.
This will be the very first "Gangsta Grillz" mixtape with Ludacris. Both he and Drama are very confident with the music they have put together. When speaking about the mixtape and how they put it together, Drama was very excited saying; "This sh** is history. It's the preview, the coming attractions. Get your popcorn. Luda already had the concept of the tape, it being the preview ... for the Theater of the Mind. When I heard the word 'preview,' my mind started immediately racing of how we should put it together. I said, 'Every beat, everything you get on has to be a movie.' On the microphone, he's already a monster, so it's kind of an easy thing. I like to give everything a beginning, middle and end. With a concept like The Preview, Cris kinda made it too easy."
In other news…
There is no release date for either the album or the mixtape yet
COMMENTS
Can't Wait.
I need some fresh music.
ludas consistant. he'll never fall off. Cant wait for the mixtape and the album.
Luda underated yo
Want some fresh music come to my Def Sounds page
Greatest unsigned prodcer Alive
ever since the carter 3 I would take luda's new tape anyday over dedication 3
luda is mad consistant and hes really brought the heat in some of his recent verses like that song with busta... looking forward to that tape and buying the album
and scoop, ur a fucking homo
I Already Know The Mixtape And The Album Gon Be Hot...If You Didn't Hear Pre Release Therapy U Got Too...Pure Fire
Luda is a talented rapper. I loved his first three albums but his last album (Release Therapy) wasn't that good imo. I hope he comes back strong, Luda is definitely one of, if not the nicest from the South.
Yea no doubt, whenever niggas start shittin on the south, sayin they got no quality music, Luda is one of the first names used to counter that argument. His flow is one of the nicest from the east, west, south, wherever
shut yo ass up you was just doggin the south out a couple months ago til we shitted on you nigga. now you makin it sound like ludacris is our excuse. fuck you nigga.
bout time luda, release thereapy won a grammy for rap album of the year so im expecting some of the same
thats some crazy ass sideburns he's got there
haha co-sign i ain't never seen those before
chea LUDA!!! ima pop back for the first time in right muthafuckin now
Luda is my motherfucka!!!!!!!!
haha...
i hope so or youre just gay
naw 50queenz your gay
Cant wait to hear both.
"Blue Magic" and "Still Tippin" both fire hope dis nigga come like this on da Album
I can't wait until this drops.
i know everyone here loves luda and what not...but in all honesty when was the last time he dropped a sick album?? ..can't remember myself, he's dope in features though
luda one of my favorite rappers he way betta den t.i. without a doubt nigga i still bump dat stomp remix
Thats an album that will definitely be bought at "Best Buy" instead of pirated.
Good Quality Rap, no chaser.
Well were the hell is the preview, the title clearly says he drops the preview, so where the hell is the preview
Great, I can't wait for this album and the preview.
time for the king of da south to reclaim his throne
CANT WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIITTTT!!!!!!!!!!! best rapper alive is gonna save hip hop from all the trash we have been listening too recently.. KING OF THE SOUTH will soon be THE KING OF HIP HOP........ best rapper alive.. DTP 4 LIFE.. album and mixtape..CRAAAAAAAAAZZZYYYY
i cant wait. this shit is gonna be dope.
rappers always saying this and that album their album and when u listen to it. its not wat they said. only jay-z did that ya niggas can't do it and luda my dude but he better prove it
only jay-z... ?! your definitely one of those jay-z g.o.a.t. fanboy niggas aren't you? stop acting like jay-z is the only rapper with ability cause he's not! hell, he not even the best alive nor of all time so cut that out please!
A luda concept album, this shit is going to be fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, Luda is truly underrated.......so is Busta Rhymes
no busta in not.... he is overrated.... who wants t hear... a hibbity bibbity flibbity tibbity my nigga flippity dibbitty da... thats all Busta does
I've copped EVERY Luda album, Luda is tooo DYAM SICK!
This album is gona be ridunkulous!
stop biting sticky fingaz.....now your even more ass luda
is it just me...did anybody really listen to lil waynes lyrics....they make no sence...tiss...fuckin garbage
do u say that in every thread?... look like we have a closet stan ladies and gentlemen!!
bout time my dawg luda drops a mixtape...cant wait..u know that shit gonna be on point
ahhh luda is about drop some gems
i heard a few lines today of that Blue Magic and Still Tippin... and they were something serious... going to cop that album like i did the others Best Rapper Alive Hands Down!!
new school LL with some serious skill... he won't ever drop a dud!
SEE!!!!! niggas like luda get my respect because they not affraid to talk about real life shit, and what he actually did before rap, thats real life, cant front on that because everybodies living a real life, NOW FOR niggas like rick ross???????? he made up his life, and used his good imagination to make up a life style that wasnt his, NOW, its nothing wrong to have a JOB, and then become a rapper, but when you lieing to your fans and saying" I was never a correctional officer, them pics are photoshoped", i have a problem with that, because nigga you aint being real, i dont know that nigga from adam and eve, but if u see the pic, come on mother fuckers, that shit aint no damn photoshop, and even if it was, i know niggas from MIA, and other parts of FLO, they tell me the same shit, that this nigga not real, and just cause you keep real goons around you, dont make you a goon, cut the bullshit coonary please!!!! you can fool the blind, but cant fool the real, and who ever disagrees with me is the ones im refering 2, who living and love other people living fantisy lives, just sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BE REAL NIGGAS!
This should be good for building hype for his album....he better come correct tho
ludacris > lil wayne
I like Luda and DJ drama hooking up cause Drama shit been watered down lately Luda a beast on the mic and it should be a good change of pace for dj drama
He was in mixtape monday, and some of the shit soubded pretty hot.
Luda is the shit....its gonna be hot as hell
My dude Luda still doin it, n can't nobody do a thing about it. Learn it.
ReDef.
HOPE THIS ALBUM IS ANOTHER -BACK FOR THE FIRST- OR -CHICKEN AND BEER- LUDA KIND OF GOT AWAY FROM WHAT MADE HIM HOT IN RECENT YEARS. BUT I'LL COP THOUGH.
thats nice but....i need a release date or a single!
I just wanted to remind people because Wayne's name keep popping up as it always does in any other artist post where it should be all about that artist, but that's what happens when you tha most LOVED and HATED, but anyways...did everyone forget that JAY-Z, who is almost everyone's favorite rapper on this site, said in his interview; IT'S NOT WHAT WAYNE SAYS all tha time, BUT HOW HE SAYS IT or THA WAY HE SAYS IT. So get off of it, your favorite rapper already said his mannerisms and character pour all over tracks and you don't always know why it's hot but it is, so just deal with it and stop trying to justify how he don't be saying nothing, go argue with tha 1 million people who bought a album full of nothing and tell them how they are stupid for listening to nothing and let us all know how that goes for you...
2 fingers
WHY DONT YOU JUST WRITE A BOOK -THACAHHTER-.
Luda is solid. Dude doesn't have a wack album, and he keeps getting better. The preview should be done in 2-4 weeks I heard. This will be good for Drama after that wack ass tape he did with Snoop.
man who be cutting this dude hair? straight steve harvey.......
MAN LUDAS HAIR ONLY LOOKS LIKE THAT ON PHOTOS. IF YOU SEE HIM IN AN INTEVIEW OR SOMRTHING HIS SHIT AINT THAT FRESH. STEVE HARVEYS SHIT IS REALLY THAT FRESH.THAT PICTURE IS ALL TECHNOLOGY OF HIS HAIRCUT.
yo skeazaleo no offense but u look str8 like Steve Erkel... like a splitting fuckin image
Word...Luda gets better with time. I have no doubt this conceptual album he's droppin gives hip hop a breath of fresh air. His powerful voice and his sick flow clearly makes him one of the VERY few MC's in the South (Andre 3000). Luda > Wayne & T.I. anyfkin day
did he paint his hair on seriously
Luda is proly the best southern rapper out
He can actually rhyme not just end verses with the same word repeatedly and then having it echo
I hate that shit
Hopefully his next album will be better than his last one, it was without a doubt, his worst out of all his LPs. Im not hatin' but it seriously lacked that magic his previous albums had...I'm guessing Luda & T.I dont have beef anymore if Drama is workin' with him.
LUDA IS A BEAST I CAN'T WAIT FOR EITHER OF THESE TO FALL! ONE FOR THE CAR AND TRUCK! DON'T HURT'EM LUDA!DON'T YOU HURT'EM! MAD SHOTS FROM NORTH CAROLINA! THE ROCK STAND UP!
Luda Is One Of The Few 1's In That South That Can Make A Good Album...........
Yeah ... this gonna be good. Can't wait to get this shit
MAN SINCE I WAS N THE 6GRADE/BACK FOR THE FIRST TIME HE'S MY FAVORITE RAPPER/MAN PEOPLE THAT LIKE WANYE JUST DONT KNOW LUDACRIS IS UNSTOPABLE/THIS NIGGA BANGS EVERY COLLABE/BETTER THEN 9OUT OF 10 RAPPERS/BUT THEIR OTHER GOOD RAPPER BUT LUDA SAID HE'S BACK 2 HIS WAYS SO U KNOW WAT THAT MEAN MORE MUSIC FOR/IM A REALLY BIG FAN OF LUDA