Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 2: Breakfast Club Morning, everybody's the dej MV Jess, Hilarry Schela
Speaker 2: mean the guy. We are the breakfast Club. We got
Speaker 2: a special guest on the line, on the zoom, on
Speaker 2: the whatever you want to call it, Luda Chris. Ladies
Speaker 2: and gentlemen, what.
Speaker 1: Up, Luda? What up?
Speaker 3: My family was going on. Congratulations Jess, How you doing?
Speaker 2: Jess is actually she's pregnant, so she in and out
Speaker 2: the room, so she probably in the bathroom throwing up
Speaker 2: maybe right now.
Speaker 1: But yes, well, congratulations twice. Good it is.
Speaker 4: Lutera is hosting the iHeart Radio Music Awards on April first.
Speaker 1: That's not April Fool's joke. Is actually happening. I was
Speaker 1: gonna say that same thing, but you beat me to it.
Speaker 3: Yes, I cannot wait to do this, miss, my first
Speaker 3: time hosting the Ieheart. Has been a minute since I
Speaker 3: hosted something. But you know, I'm a big kid. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna have a lot of fun. We're gonna bring a
Speaker 3: lot of energy, not an April Fool's joke whatsoever, because
Speaker 3: I like to joke around a lot too.
Speaker 1: But this ain't no games, no game.
Speaker 3: It's fit factor the last than yoursen Nah, I think
Speaker 3: the Billboard Award if I'm not the Billboard Awards three
Speaker 3: years in a row.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, Now, did you have more
Speaker 2: fun at the Super Bowl or when you performed in
Speaker 2: Atlanta when you was hanging from the ceiling sliding all
Speaker 2: the way down?
Speaker 1: Which one did you have more fun? Envy? That's a
Speaker 1: that's a hard that's a hard question.
Speaker 3: But you know when I was sliding down the you
Speaker 3: know when I was, when I was repelling downe it
Speaker 3: wasn't over one hundred million people around the world watching me.
Speaker 3: That was just kind of a certain amount. I would
Speaker 3: have to say the Super Bowl, man, because that was
Speaker 3: just one of those moments in time where I was
Speaker 3: I was nervous for my friend. This boy was on
Speaker 3: roller skates and all type of stuff, and we know
Speaker 3: that he practices these things, but that was it was
Speaker 3: a little different, man. And uh, I just felt the
Speaker 3: energy from around the world on that day a little
Speaker 3: bit more than I felt on that repelling down from
Speaker 3: the Georgia Dome.
Speaker 2: Do you ever get nervous? And I know you perform
Speaker 2: every weekend and you've done these shows like that one
Speaker 2: time the biggest stage and you forget a word or
Speaker 2: you stutter or did you did that ever cross your
Speaker 2: mind at all?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: So you know what Little John asked me that before
Speaker 3: we went on, And I'm gonna say something that probably
Speaker 3: no artists probably ever says, absolutely, Bro, I getting nervous
Speaker 3: all the time. The moment you stop getting nervous is
Speaker 3: the moment that you don't care. And you know who
Speaker 3: told me that, may he rest in peace. DMX said
Speaker 3: that to me, man, and I took that the heart
Speaker 3: ever since. I'm always nervous right before I hit stage
Speaker 3: because I care so much. But as soon as I
Speaker 3: hit that stage, as soon as my voice comes on
Speaker 3: that mic, all the nervousness goes out the way.
Speaker 1: But always always nervous. You know.
Speaker 4: Lude we're on zoom, but you know, I can see
Speaker 4: who's on the zoom and I see the good brother
Speaker 4: Shaka Zulu on the zoom. Man, it's incredible to see men,
Speaker 4: especially Black men, have such a long, healthy relationship like
Speaker 4: like y'all have.
Speaker 1: What do you mean to still have.
Speaker 4: Shaka in your life after, you know, especially after what
Speaker 4: he just went through.
Speaker 1: Man, Listen, Shaka is my mentor.
Speaker 3: I don't know if y'all saw when I received my
Speaker 3: Hollywood Walk of Fame, Man, but it occurred to me
Speaker 3: at that moment that Shaka and his brother Jeff for
Speaker 3: like the fathers that I've had since my father passed.
Speaker 1: Away, Man, and I started breaking down in tears.
Speaker 3: So I can say a lot of things, but I
Speaker 3: hope that makes you understand how much it is how
Speaker 3: much it means to me to have someone like Shaka
Speaker 3: in my life man, as a mentor, as a guid
Speaker 3: as a as a friend, as a as a figure
Speaker 3: that just continues to keep me on my best behavior
Speaker 3: and keep me on my toes.
Speaker 1: Man, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: We've been in the game over over two decades and
Speaker 3: been rocking with each other. No contract. It was a
Speaker 3: handshake and it's been like that of a since And.
Speaker 4: That started at radio right how long?
Speaker 3: Seven nine yes, and ninety seven five at the time.
Speaker 3: So man, this is a it's a radio family thing, man.
Speaker 3: And like we said, this was in Atlanta. We just
Speaker 3: sold this to be et by the way, this whole story.
Speaker 3: So man, it's for all the radio people.
Speaker 1: Have they got the official green light. I know you
Speaker 1: got the BT Plus series, It got the official green light.
Speaker 3: We got the official greenlight. Man, I'm gonna do everybody proud.
Speaker 4: Have you picked to playing you who, playing Shaka Who?
Speaker 4: Playing Jeff Who playing a young Outlid?
Speaker 3: Maybe I don't know, not yet, but we ain't got
Speaker 3: to that stage yet. But we're taking all suggestions. We
Speaker 3: know you out there producing stuff too, so man, you know,
Speaker 3: give us your list. We gotta we gotta figure this out.
Speaker 3: We got to match the right people, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. It's got to be as real as possible.
Speaker 1: That's right. You know. It's funny.
Speaker 4: I got my new book coming out, and I wrote
Speaker 4: about you in the book because I was a young
Speaker 4: intern at the time. But I remember when you was
Speaker 4: at Z ninety three Jams and Charleston and even though
Speaker 4: even though What's your Fantasy was popping, you came in
Speaker 4: and ran your own board, and yes, and I'll never
Speaker 4: forget that, like you were doing the interview, but you like, now,
Speaker 4: let me run the board, and I'll never forget.
Speaker 1: I just don't. I never forget that, bro, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: I never forget that.
Speaker 3: And by the way, you know, I don't just say this, man,
Speaker 3: because I follow y'all on social media, but.
Speaker 1: My your first book. It was an amazing just piece
Speaker 1: of art and a piece of work. And I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm proud.
Speaker 3: Of you because I know this ain't your This is
Speaker 3: like your third or fourth one. So man, congratulations on that.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to read it now, especially not on
Speaker 3: that I'm in the them.
Speaker 1: Yes, bro, yes, sir.
Speaker 2: Now, I gotta ask you. Know you're a lyricist and
Speaker 2: you will bite back anybody that mentions your name. We
Speaker 2: see you with Cat Williams. But now that you're seeing
Speaker 2: the shots going back and forth with these these lyricists,
Speaker 2: do you enjoy it? Because you feel like hip hop
Speaker 2: got a little too everybody's too cool with each other.
Speaker 1: Listen, I don't care where hip hop is it.
Speaker 3: I enjoy anytime people are coming at each other's next,
Speaker 3: like in the right way. I absolutely love what's going on.
Speaker 3: Like I was just saying that we're witnessing you know,
Speaker 3: you just talked about the Super Bowls. Super Bowl is
Speaker 3: all about who wants it the most. We just we
Speaker 3: witness in March madness live about who wants it the most.
Speaker 3: That competitive we witness in history with Lebron James doing
Speaker 3: amazing historic things and everybody always talks about who's the
Speaker 3: greatest and who's the best, and the debates. I love
Speaker 3: and hip hop is of no exception. I love in
Speaker 3: hip hop when people just try to prove to each
Speaker 3: other and you got the best of the best, and
Speaker 3: you know, I'm loving what's going on.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to how this plays out.
Speaker 4: Well, Louda, what you're saying that, you know Nelly, mav
Speaker 4: and Paul was just up here, like literally just walked
Speaker 4: out talking about the shop. But you know, Nelly was
Speaker 4: on the shop and he said that his era of
Speaker 4: rap was the toughest and most competitive, like, so that
Speaker 4: was your era to yeah, j m Wayne fifty and
Speaker 4: lud he said that, you know, you actually said your name,
Speaker 4: If I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't be at all mad at that statement
Speaker 3: because I was just on drink Champs and I was
Speaker 3: literally talking about how you know that I went to
Speaker 3: the award shows and the Grammys obviously year after year
Speaker 3: after year for the first decade. I mean, I'm over
Speaker 3: here out selling a lot of these artists and I'm losing.
Speaker 3: And what I mean by that is I was up
Speaker 3: against DMX, I was up against jay Z, I was
Speaker 3: up against eminem in these categories every single time, and
Speaker 3: I just you know, I had to keep.
Speaker 1: My head, my head held high.
Speaker 3: And uh, you know, after about a decade or so,
Speaker 3: I finally started winning. But yes, I would say in
Speaker 3: terms of competition, in terms of going at each other,
Speaker 3: in terms of subliminals flying, in terms of direct lyrics flying,
Speaker 3: it was just extremely competitive. Now, I'm sure anybody in
Speaker 3: their era is going to say that's the toughest era.
Speaker 3: But I can't be mad at that statement. I feel
Speaker 3: the same way.
Speaker 2: How important is is family and your wife to you
Speaker 2: and keeping that that that bond fresh, spicy and new
Speaker 2: like I've seen recently when you gave her I'm not
Speaker 2: sure what Holliday was. I think it was her birthday
Speaker 2: or Christmas when you made her do obstacle courses to
Speaker 2: get a bag and she had to shen't get it,
Speaker 2: she couldn't climb. But how how important is that for
Speaker 2: you and your relationship?
Speaker 1: It's extremely important to keep stuff fresh? Man.
Speaker 3: You can't do the same things over and over again.
Speaker 3: You gotta keep that's That's just one thing that's in
Speaker 3: my nature.
Speaker 1: Though. Man, I love constantly, Uh.
Speaker 3: Just you know, I love constantly trying new things, especially
Speaker 3: when it comes to exciting my wife, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. So I think it was Valentine's Day again
Speaker 3: that you're talking about, and I made her do a
Speaker 3: little obstacle.
Speaker 1: Course, I hate doing the same thing over and over.
Speaker 1: He made it do.
Speaker 2: Obstacles I don't think nobody could do. He made a
Speaker 2: climb rock walls after climbing rock walls like you, made
Speaker 2: it do a lot like damn.
Speaker 1: He hosted Fear Factor, So that's on brand. That's on brand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm an innovator, man, I got to innovate in
Speaker 3: all walks of my life.
Speaker 4: One question I got to ask you for you go,
Speaker 4: was Kat Williams ever really offered your role in Fast
Speaker 4: and Furious?
Speaker 1: No? He never, He never, I don't, not that I
Speaker 1: know of. You said, was he offered a role?
Speaker 4: Because he said, If I'm not mistaken, I could be
Speaker 4: misquoting this. I thought he said on Club they offered
Speaker 4: him to roll, but he didn't take it because he
Speaker 4: wasn't willing to do what okay, the compromising things that
Speaker 4: they needed allegedly allegedly.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And to answer your question, I wouldn't be the
Speaker 3: right person to ask that question. I have no idea
Speaker 3: if he was offered a role in The Fast or not.
Speaker 3: I do know that I saw him at Rick Ross's
Speaker 3: crib some years back, and everything was perfectly fine.
Speaker 1: But he's a comedian, you know, he tells jokes, So
Speaker 1: it is what it is.
Speaker 4: You didn't take you didn't take offense to nothing. Even
Speaker 4: when he was saying things like, oh, you know, it's
Speaker 4: about seven people.
Speaker 1: With ugly light skin wives.
Speaker 4: If you do this and you do that, you get
Speaker 4: an ugly light skin wife and movie.
Speaker 3: Rolls or chala mane. It was so laughable what he
Speaker 3: said that I was to me, I was I was
Speaker 3: just like, I couldn't believe what he was saying.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, I don't.
Speaker 3: I took it as laughable because he's a comedian, and
Speaker 3: that's why I kind of responded with some laughing little stuff.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, could you beat him?
Speaker 2: Could you beat him in a foot race?
Speaker 1: You know what? That's a good question, that's a great question.
Speaker 1: I don't know. We got to see because he is
Speaker 1: fast out there. Sure well.
Speaker 2: Tonight April first, Luther Chris host the iHeart Radio Music Awards,
Speaker 2: and we got to get you up here in person.
Speaker 2: I know you're running around doing your thing, but next
Speaker 2: time you're in New York, you got to stop through.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be on Fox tonight. Absolutely, I'll see y'all.
Speaker 1: Let the Awards show man all love for much.
Speaker 2: Is Ludacris just the Breakfast Club, Good morning.
Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club.