According to reports, Theater Of The Mind is going to be what many may consider a concept album, as it features "tracks envisioned as short plots from movies."
'Theater of the Mind' is all of my albums put together," Ludacris tells Billboard.com, who still hopes to hook up with Eminem for the album. "There's the funny Ludacris, the serious Ludacris and the story-telling Ludacris as well as the movie-making Ludacris."
"Theater Of The Mind" is set to feature appearances from The Game, T.I., T-Pain, Chris Brown, Three6 Mafia, and many others. The album is set to drop on October 21st, with a video for the lead single, "What Them Girls Like," featuring Chris Brown set to be released in the coming weeks.
As previously mentioned, "Theater Of The Mind" isn't the only serving of Luda we will be getting this fall. He will also be appearing on the upcoming movie adaptation of popular video game "Max Payne," as well as Guy Ritchie's mysterious new flick "RockNRolla."
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According to Luda, who co-stars opposite Mark Wahlberg, the big screen adaptation of Max Payne takes the storyline and characters to a "whole new level."
"This is the first time I've played any kind of police role. It's funny ... in most movies, Mark plays the dominant role but my character is the dominant one over Mark. That was a power thing and I absolutely loved it" Luda tells Billboard.
Max Payne is set to hit theaters on October 17th while RocknRolla will open nationwide on Halloween.
COMMENTS
luda!!!!!!!!! save us from lil wayne!! and save hip hop please these fags dont know shit about music.
Tha Man Stays Grindin...On Tha Side Of Tha Movies And Album He Has Coming Out. He Also Launched That We Mix Website To Help Out Niggaz Tryna Make It In Tha Game..Talk About Givin Bacc Or Chances To Shine,Not Mad At Him At All For That One..Still Underrated And I Believe To Have A Underdog Status One Thing I Do Know,9 Tymes Outta Ten Luda Might Just Eat Ya Favorite Rapper Up Lyrically....Good Shyt .Scream At Me,1..
good job Luda. hurry up with that album.
luda is a beast, one my favorite artists, he never dissapoints, and that Max Payne shit gon be nuts
theatre of mind gonna be classic. luda always bring it on albums.
Lol Wayne is the Grinch who stole hip-hop..Luda can't bring it all the way back, but Jeezy has thrown us a life-jacket, maybe Luda can come in on the raft and Jay-Z and Dre can airlift us out of this shit lol..
Man Luda has grown up..I always thought of him as the Busta Rhymes of Southern Rap with all those goofy, but powerful music videos..Now he's in major movies, winning supporting actor awards and shit..Dat's Wsup!! Can't wait for the album and movies!
lil wayne wasn't get hated on til he fucked up n make a garbage album dat went double plat. and why is plies outsellin nas? i still don't get dat!
luda comin up in the world
Aiight ... Luda is focus
He grindin hard, gettin that paper
Is Luda still wit DefJam?
I heard he was gonna make moves, but I never heard to where
SHIT SHADY AND LUDA ON THE SAME TRACK......THATS HISTORY IN THE MAKING!!!!!!!!!
word im waitin on that album
hopefully he gets on a track wit em, that would be hot
i have a feeling its gonna be a club song tho if they do collab
that album is gonna be hot. Luda gettin paper man with them movies.
and by the way if theater of the mind dont sell a milli in one week hip hop is dead!!!
MANNNNNN DS is putting in work the last 24 hours!! i don't know when there's be so many singles posted at one time and Jokesta hitting us twice!! Good looking on the article and i can't wait for the Luda album!! This has been a good year for Hip Hop especially the last couple of months!!!!!
HEAVY..LUDA IS KEEPING IT MOVING..." MAX PAYNE" & "ROCK N ROLLA" = DOUGH MONEY.....LOL.
PLUS HE DROPPING HIS ALBUM, NICE ONE.
ha luda workin hard. cant no nigga say he aint doin it. he's seriously underrated with the acting bar and all of that. he picks his movie choices very well
ludacris please make a track with dr dre on this album or better yet let him produce a track on ur album then :)
Damn Luda is on his grind. The album is gonna b good, but I'm anxious to watch "Rock 'N Rolla" and "Max Payne."
nigga gittin his grind on haters here as alwayz(2 da first nigga who commented) and i neva played max payne but i wanna see how dat turns out
i cant wait for da album or Max Payne. i dnt no bout da album bei classik doe. itll b good but classic iz pushin it so iz ah mill da 1st week. he iz underrated but damn hiphop doesnt solely rely on him sellin. but i hope it does good and we get da song wit Em
seems no body got beef with Luda on this one...almost everyone writing good about him...Get em Luda..............
our south version of nas. he is great at wut he spits & he can act 2. He will help save hip-hop jus like nas, ice cube, the game, and t.i. Luda is prove dat south is more den jus crunk so niggaz betta stop hatin da south. 4 real cuz we don't hate on yall.
LUDA IS MAKING SURE HIS FUTURE IS SECURE WITH THESE 2 MOVIES HE IS COMING OUT WITH... I REALLY DONT CARE MUCH FOR THE MUSIC CAUSE I KNOW WHAT HE GONNA BRING TO THE TABLE AND I HOPE HE PROVES ME WRONG CAUSE I WANNA BE SUPRISED. BUT DUDE IS A HEAVY HITTER IN THE GAME RIGHT NOW...KEPP DOING YA FUCKING THING HOMIE !!!!
Can't wait for Common & Luda's albums. Definitely gonna see that Max Payne movie. The game version was the shit!
My dude Luda, is dat nigga...Learn it.
ReDef.
lookin forward 2 the em track and the 3-6 track.....definetly gon cop
he need 2 drop that shit cuz i 've been waitin 4 dat shit !!!
My favorite thing about Luda is that you know for damn sure that his album won't be disappointing.
simply the best!!! its that simple.... DTP 4 LIFE..
one of the realest MC's str8 outta tha dirty south. its gonna be interestin to see how his and T.I.'s albums do. i wanna see which of the three biggest rappers from tha dirty south is gonna be the best. i dont know why but i think theater of the mind will be better than Tha Carter III but im not sure whater it will be better than Papertrail
WTH they pick ludacris over a Houston rapper like Scarface or Bun B, i dont understand this shit, Scarface started the southern rap shit, if it wasnt for Scarface, ludacris wouldnt even be here, Scarface made this nigga, Scarface should be in the hall of fame,
Everybody know who the kings of the South be
1.Scarface
2.Bun B
3.Chamilli
4.Ludacris
5.Young Jeezy
6.Outkast
7.T.I.
8.Lil wayne
9.Slim thug
10.Devin the Dude
Wow. You actually put some rappers on there that ARENT from Houston. I respect the list.
stat quo nice too
u could politely remove lil wayne tho
a luda and eminem track would be crazy. hip hop comin strong this year wit LAX and recesion jus dropped recently and we got paper trail and theater of mind you already kno im coppin both.
did anyone play max payne??? the games were good that movie should be fire wit marky mark and luda
on that list luda def beats out Chamillionaire, and could @ least tie wit Bun... i don't really wanna put him past them dudes tho off tha strength of they came earlier in tha game then him, but Luda is a top 10 artist dam near since he came out, simply because he kno how 2 be different.
Luda is one of da smartest dudes in tha game and one of tha few that hav my full respect.
luda is top 5 real talk.....
Max Payne is a bad ass videogame hopefully they dont screw up the movie.
Luda don't never retire
Tru king of da south