definitely feel a spice yeah trying to keep my composure these sideburns are for a reason these sideburns say you better make it till the end this is what they say to the camera hey what's going on everybody for first we Feast I'm Sean Evans and today we deliver you a very special episode of hot ones brought to you by Stella artad
the official beer of hot ones summer when we'll be bringing hot ones live to the city of Chicago but first things first you're watching the show with hot questions and even hotter wings and today I'm thrilled to be joined in the studio by ludicrous yeah man it's crazy cuz we met in New York at the Stella event last year and first time now it's
all come full circle it's you're trapped on the show and there's no Escape you know why it's taking me so long to be on the show because I was pissed that I didn't think of this concept and do it myself right well now it's beer and chicken you were really ahead of the curve on that one oh for sure CH and beer is my lifestyle and everything that
entails ludicrous so this goes right along with my lifestyle [Music] man all right ready to just get into this let's get it let's do it all right so this first one is the classic Buffalo and then you'll start over there at the handle start at the handle [Music] uh-huh that's actually pretty damn good there we [Music] go the hip-hop 50 celebrations of the
last year really solidified the idea of a legacy act in hip-hop do you think rap is still a young person's game or have things changed that's a great great question man it's funny you say that because every time when I'm on stage especially over the last year as we've been celebrating 50 years of hip-hop it's made me realize how young hip-hop
is compared to a lot of other genres because people thought it was going to be here today and gone tomorrow and look at what it's done it's a permanent staple you know it's the biggest genre of music there is and so do I think it's a young people's game I feel like that was the stereotype and I I feel like people are defying that stereotype each
and every day because people are growing older with hip-hop I just saw I want to say like rock the bills concert you had all of these foundational hip-hop artists and it was at a soldout Arena so that lets you know that there is a fan base still that cares so much and it's so passionate and I think it's it's just about him coming out with projects that
are meaningful and are honest and you do that you can relate to anybody it's it's ageless jalapeno hot sauce it's complex that's what I was going to say very slow and then now has some layers to it you know what I mean when you think you know it it has another gear shift that it pulls on you you I agree I love uh smoking Cuban cigars when you smoke the cigar it has
you know the ones that are complex and they have different layers and you smoke them you know in thirds that's kind of how you define certain cigars and same thing with wines as they get better with age and some more complex and so the Finer Things in life and continuing to learn is what I'm all about man cigars wi and hot sauce cigars wine and hot
sauce but mostly beer chicken and hot sauce There we go can you pull back the curtain on all that goes into the execution of a Super Bowl halftime show like are there Marvel level security measures to make sure that your cameo doesn't leak yo listen it's definitely multiple layers to try to make that happen but it's so many uh tentacles to
this thing but when you got like it's thousands of people involved it's very I'm sure it's very difficult to not let something slip underneath the cracks so of course I was tight lipped but I started seeing all the rumors of who was and who wasn't I think it was so difficult that at some point Usher was like yes yes Lil John and Luda is going
to be there but at some at a certain point you don't know what to believe because it's been everything's diluted seven kinds of smoke exactly what are some of the unexpected Tech technical challenges of repelling down from the roof of the Georgia Dome while performing oh man the only unexpected challenges for me when I first rehearsed
before I actually did it was making sure that the antenna for the microphone was as powerful as it needs to be if you have areas where it's not reaching then you're going to have a messed up performance because it's going to be glitchy and you know your sound is going to come in and out and that was my most important thing I didn't want to do this
death defying phenomenal stunt and people not be able to hear me at full clarity of what ludicrous has to offer so I basically made them go and buy a hundred different antennas pointing in all directions making sure that we were [Music] good Stellar fuzz habanero that's my favorite so far so for my money the opening on red light district is one of the Great Rap intro
tracks of all time that's dope I think Timberland did that one so I'm glad you say that what in your mind is the goal or aim of a great album intro song man it has to capture your intention immediately it has to set the tone for the entire rest of the album you know it's the World Series whoever's first up to bat needs to set the tone for the
whole rest of the team for the stadium for the entire game you got to hit it out the park to me it's always been important to to have the best intros I'm glad you mentioned that because you know people's attention span these days are extremely short but if you just go back and listen to all of the ludicrous intros it should make you want to listen
to the rest of the entire album and that's the goal you know what I mean and then one of my favorite pieces of ludicrous lore is that when you made your album release therapy you did so with the explicit and specific goal to win the Grammy for rap album of the Year absolutely how was your game plan or your strategy for that particular
project different from the other ones the reason that this was is because for all of these years and I want to say it was a good 9 to 10 years I was in the same category of solo male rap artists as Eminem as 50 c as DMX as JayZ so I finally got to a point I was so consistent that I just built up this momentum and I finally had my time and I
set out to do it and it's just like that was probably one of the if not the best times of my entire career literally for setting out making sure I had a goal and accomplishing that goal and just knocking it out the park as we say man it meant everything to me love hearing that story from behind the scenes do we crack our Stella R2 what are we doing
here man we got to make it happen yeah little Stella cheer to that [Music] man scente ver [Music] so Nelly recently made a headlines with his claim that the 2000s was the hardest era of hip-hop ever did that at all resonate with you like did you agree with that statement it was literally piggybacking off of what I just told you in a sense of what I was up against
trying to win that Grammy album of the year when I was like I'm always in the category with all of these heavy Heavy Hitters and Nelly was another one of them and I would have to agree with him I know that's objective depending on what era you're from because I feel like anybody in any era is going to say that that was the toughest but you know um me
being in that and saying what I went through I feel I feel the same [Music] way queso s queso and a little bit of a jump I think at this one all of them are different y'all did a very good job curating what the hell is going on here that's such a compliment coming from you so your myology in the hip-hop game it's unparalleled so what I want to do is
just fact check some of the Larger than Life lore while I have you sitting across I love that cuz a lot of that stuff on Google is like all bad man don't believe everything that you when you Google on the internet there some crazy stuff on there we'll set the records right now Factor fiction Justin Timberlake cursed you out backstage at
the Grammys for celebrating too much I'm glad that you brought this up cuz the internet kind of like it they they went a little crazy with it he definitely meant it but it was no cursing out he was behind the curtain and I was celebrating so openly and I was so loud I think it was said more in fun but there was definitely some truth behind
it like okay Show's not over stop celebrating so openly I haven't won any yet you know but with a smile on his face type thing is it true that you buy a car off of The Fast and Furious set with every film absolutely until we started shooting in UK where the steering wheel is on the other side of the cars but the crazy thing is you go
look at Too Fast Too Furious there was this dodge rank that had the Louis Vuitton print on it that was the first one that I got I probably drove that around Atlanta for like 2 days before I was like I've got to paint this damn car cuz I everybody in Atlanta was following me like it's ludicrous look at bro I swear like I don't even know what I was
thinking did Ben Stiller personally seek your approval to use get back at the end of Tropic Thunder for that Tom Cruz dancing yo that's a I don't think anybody's ever asked me that's a great question not only did he seek a approval respectfully he invited us to watch the movie before it came out and it was literally just me him and my management
and we watched the whole movie just to see at the end for him to ask me is it okay to clear this and I was like absolutely I was more I'm such a been still a fan that I was more just happy that he invited me personally to come watch the movie before it came out bourbon maple Reaper intensely spicy definitely feel the spice yep trying to keep my composure these
sideburns are for a reason I have to go through all of these hot sauces I cannot quit no it's something that like if people can read these sideburns say you better make it till the end this is what they say to the camera no way yeah these are like them old school western movie sideburns I should have they used to eat spicy all day every
they go in the salon they order like the hardest whiskey you know I'm saying that's what these are come on let's go what are we doing I haven't drink the milk yet so during your Chris lovea laa days at Atlanta's hot97.5 what if anything did you learn about the radio station politics that go into getting your music played on air I felt it's all about the team the artist
could be one thing you can have a hot record but your record company your record company Representatives how they treat people how they come to the station the respect you know it's just like being humble understanding how the game is played because make no mistake if you're a part of a record company and you're one artist you got to understand
that when these representatives from your company come up to a radio station they're also trying to pitch all the other artists that have records coming out at that time so it's like the artist doesn't usually realize that they're trying to Pigg you back off of your number one record so I think that's one of the biggest things that I learn is
that record companies if you're very smart you're trying to politic in the means of okay we know we got one record here how do we help all of our other artists get on this rotation at this station based off of The Leverage that we have at this particular moment in time do you remember where you were when you heard what's Your Fantasy on the
radio for the first time the first time I heard my record being played where I knew I was I was going somewhere was when I was on the same radio slot and we were on commercial break and somebody texted me and said go listen to the other station your competitor station is playing your record and that's unheard of because in radio you're not supposed
to do anything that supports anyone or anything that they have going on at the other station and when I heard that I was like this is it we're here the forbidden fruit fruit I'm still enjoying this can you define dynamic Simplicity and then how do you think it's influenced the music that you've made man how do you know about that when did I say that man I love the
fact that you say Dynamic Simplicity I practiced this martial arts called 52 blocks and a lot of people don't really know much about it but it just I I mentioned that because you know you hear all the time and this can apply to anything but you should be more afraid of the guy that practic is one right hand punch a million times a day as
opposed to the person that practices full range karate you know one time a day so what I mean by D Dynamic Simplicity it's so Dynamic with that right hand and how you swing because you got it to a te like you've perfected it but it's very simple at the same time it goes into the music uh how I do everything you don't want to over
complicate stuff you have to keep the humanization in your music in in that can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people but there has to be a little room for error nobody likes perfect as crazy as that sounds you want to get close to perfect you want to get better you want to evolve you want to get good but when it's too perfect
nobody can really relate to it so that's kind of what I mean when I say Dynamic Simplicity there's this amazing scene in The Genius documentary where you're in the parking lot outside of the studio before recording Breathe In Breathe Out is writing in the car always been a part of your creative process absolutely it's like my safe Zone I can roll the window
down I can get sun on my face so you feeling the elements of the wind you feel the energy of whatever is going on around you but at the same time it's like you're in this protective box you got speakers everywhere front back side to side you can turn this up as loud as you want to you're not bothering anybody nobody can tell you to turn it down and
it's just protected and it's just that's where I get the best ideas because I'm just in this Zone when I'm driving and thinking and and kind of writing at the same time it's great because one is second nature it's like I don't have to think about it but it's also therapeutic for me to be able to drive and uh that's where all my best thoughts and all of my best music comes
of course hint move get out the way I wrote that in the car you know what I mean I I was in traffic I was in a traffic jam all of that man you know what I'm going to take a little milk just cuz I'm thirsty right now just I don't want anybody thinking that I just took a bite out of something and I need it I don't need it but I'm going to take
some right now just cuz I feel like drinking a little milk before I'll join you all right because coming up next is uh de bomb Beyond Insanity should I take my coat off before you know what let me just take my coat off cuz I want to show off this amazing chain that I just got you guys it is an amazing chain pretty cool Rockstar status ladies and
gentlemen the bomb Insanity here we go yeah yeah mhm oh yeah that's definitely hot mhm but good wo that's really good wow I mean like in this type of way like in these sideburns type of way right right like in a feel something feel alive kind of way woo that's kind of like that type of way you know what I mean I love that reaction
separate separate see this kind of reaction on this sauce woo just out of curiosity what's the craziest stunt you've seen performed up close and personal I'm the set of a fast and furious movie you know that's a good question because before like on two fast two furious they used to actually let us drive the cars and I just remember may
he rest in peace of course Paul Walker um doing this dope stunt and he it was such a hard stunt where he had to like 360 the car but it was also amazing because you know he had practiced it so much and he did everything he needed to do and I feel like he did the best D and he loved it he was thrill seeker you know just adrenaline and you can you you could
tell his love for cars and just his love for for all of that he talked about it all the time have you ever been to uh gibsy Hana that private Benny Hana in the backyard of Tyresa place yes I have does it like match up to like a Benny hanar it actually does cuz you know what he does he goes to actual Benihana and literally tells the chef that he'll hire
them for more money well he's done this he poaches he poaches and brings them to his house he steals Ben Hana chefs this is what he does I'm telling you it's crazy I got to say it's very rare that somebody looks to bomb right in the eyes oh yeah and stands 10 toes down the way that you have on that appreciate that bro listen and it's not I don't I'm not showing it
as much but it's very very very insane because I still I still you know what I'm saying but that's why I love it because I said the complexity of it it's not gone anywhere right it's still [Music] here Matos this is where it gets interesting I'm sure now nothing fun but after the last [Music] one right how you know almost like it takes its foot off the gas a little bit
and I like that you know what's dope that I didn't even mention is that um Queen Latifa we shot a movie with on with Netflix called end of the road and we shot this in Albuquerque New Mexico Albuquerque New Mexico as you know is like it's the chili pepper capital I truly enjoyed shooting that movie with Queen but also being in Albuquerque New
Mexico and trying all of these different Chili Peppers seems well it feel like it served me well cuz this is reminding me of of those times and that's what's special about the hottest of hot sauces is that is going to bring you to a moment in time in history where it comes in handy comes in handy music does that the best things that you know you're
going to remember for the rest of your life that's what this is about memories lifetime memories so I've heard you talk about Buster Rhymes and missel at as musical influences but I'm curious as one of the funniest lyricists and music video performers of all time who are your comedy icons a lot of people don't know this but Richard Pryor is like my
my fifth cousin believe it or not so I'm related to Richard Pryor you don't hear people say that often you don't hear cousins when it's like first cousin definitely say Richard Pryor would definitely say Eddie Murphy's of the world my friend Kevin Hart feel like he's up there with him um Dave Chappelle got to mention him uh man those are
those are just a few that come to mind what do you see as the role of comedy in hip-hop in hip-hop there used to be this stigma that you have to be hardcore all the time that you can't show a lighter version of yourself and people started breaking down those barriers over time I just saw Ice Cube say something about the song it was a good day about all his
homies were literally telling him he cannot put that record out because you know if you hardcore you ganger rap nobody wants to talk about having a good day and you think about that and him going against the grain and just being honest about his life and you see that record now as like one of the most timeless and classic records of hip-hop
history that should let you know you got to talk about all size you have to you can't not do it bro uh-oh let's go today was a good day until we had this last exam hot sauce on this table so this is the last dab we C the last dab cuz tradition around here to put a little extra on the last one you don't have to if you don't want to oh man come
on now what I tell you about these sideburns bro did I not tell you I told you about Sideburn I know I knew immediately what I was dealing with today oh oh yeah be careful that might not be a good thing H the last da let's go that's my favorite wo that's got a kick but the flavor though that's complex over here yes let's rock let's
rock and the good news is Luda the wings of death are behind us and to close things out you know there have been these debates raging online about your best features on other artist songs all right so here while your brain and mind melt in hot sauce I want to put them to rest from The Source all right I'm curious what to you is your Mount
Rushmore of Luda guest verses your top four of all time definitely Sierra o is going to be in that top four um Nas made you look remix hell yeah I got to say yeah verse for a feature just because it is going down in music history not just hip-hop or pop history we talking about music history number four is going to be very difficult cuz man it's you think
about it for a sec you know it's like it's coming to mind I don't want to be I don't want to repeat myself but I want to say Lovers and Friends man we talking about let's just say if they say usher you know Lil John and Luda had to do it again that Lovers and Friends record we never shot a video for and it went number one on the charts and it's like
for it to be slow song and for people to for it to resonate with people the way that it did I would have to put that as number four well set it in stone and look at you ludicrous taking on the wings of death living to tell the tale and before we roll out the red carpet I think it's only right that we cheers Stella she is Che Stella and by the way
you know Stella R has some great events playing you know cuz they have one in New York again we have one in Atlanta I had to let them know they have to bring it to my hometown of Atlanta so this summer is going to be amazing because we get to do this again and now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you this camera this camera
this camera let the people know what you have going on in your life cheers man I have nothing going on but the bomb the bomb hot sauce I'm taking this home with me that's all I got going on first one ever thank you bro yeah somebody told me behind the who killed it the most was like uh Billy eyh or something like that somebody was it was it Billy that like
didn't Flinch or some it was a woman a couple yeah like Jenna Ortega didn't Flinch I think that's what it was didn't Flinch how the hell did they do that um Hal Barry actually didn't Flinch she I was like oh so you have any idea what you're getting yourself into and she goes Sean I am here to eat dinner like that that's hilarious y That's