Moreover, Ludacris established himself as a versatile actor, notably appearing in such mainstream films as 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Crash (2005), and Fred Claus (2007), among other films and TV series. Plus, Ludacris became a reliable featured guest, gracing Top Tens for Missy Elliott ('One Minute Man,' 'Gossip Folks'), Mariah Carey ('Loverboy'), LL Cool J ('Fatty Girl'), Chingy ('Holidae In'), Usher ('Yeah!'), Ciara ('Oh'), Jamie Foxx ('Unpredictable'), Fergie ('Glamorous'), and others. The song soon became a national hit, beginning a long string of hits that would include Billboard Hot 100 number ones ('Stand Up,' 'Money Maker') and Top Tens ('Move Bitch,' 'Splash Waterfalls,' 'Pimpin' All Over the World,' 'Runaway Love'), as well as a bunch of Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Top Tens ('Southern Hospitality,' 'Area Codes,' 'Rollout ,' 'Saturday ,' 'Get Back,' 'Number One Spot'). Def Jam repackaged his underground album Incognegro (2000) as Back for the First Time (2000) and issued 'What's Your Fantasy?' as its lead single. In 2000 the Atlanta-based rapper signed to Def Jam's newly established Southern rap subsidiary, Def Jam South, and became the label's flagship Dirty South artist. (See what I did there? Clever, right?) I also realize that I've gone through this entire paragraph without mentioning that motherfucking Ron Browz, a boil on the asshole of hip hop, produced this song.When the Dirty South movement broke nationwide at the turn of the century, Ludacris rode it to immediate widespread popularity, becoming arguably the most commercially successful Southern rapper of the time. Since Pepsi tastes like battery acid anyway (except for the Throwback version, which should just be added to their standard repertoire anyway the addition of high fructose corn syrup has truly fucked up Pepsi's flavor for the worst), I'm not really shocked: everybody knows that rap artists love Coke anyway.
There are a couple of interesting points to make, though: he claims his fans are racially diverse and embraces them (everyone except for Asians, who apparently don't exist within Luda's universe, or at least none of them listen to any of his records), and our host also throws shots toward both Bill O'Reilly, who infamously got Luda dropped from a Pepsi campaign for being a black rapper (there was probably a little more to it than that, but tell me that the guy isn't a bit racist), and Pepsi themselves, for acting like pussies and actually cowing to O'Reilly's demands. There isn't much imagination to be found on here, but this was still a hit on the radio regardless.
For the first true song on Chicken-N-Beer, Ludacris goes back to the “Move Bitch” well, molding several verses around a song title that doubles as a stadium chant-slash-something you yell out loud at other drivers.
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