Ludacris’ celebrated 2000 album, Again For The First Time, is about to be reissued on vinyl to rejoice its twenty fifth anniversary.
Launched on October 17, 2000 Luda’s sophomore effort and main label debut cemented him as some of the authentic voices in hip-hop. That includes star studded manufacturing from legends like Organized Noize, Jermaine Dupri, Timbaland, The Neptunes, and Ludacris himself, the document grew to become an prompt traditional.
Again For The First Time contains hit singles “What’s Your Fantasy” and “Southern Hospitality.”” This new vinyl version is now accessible on a normal black 2LP vinyl in a gatefold fold jacket.
“What’s Your Fantasy?” grew to become a serious hit nationally, peaking at quantity 21 on the Scorching 100, and the follow-up single, “Southern Hospitality,” was equally common, charting at quantity 23. The album climbed all the best way to No.4 on the Billboard 200.
Although the mission is now an authorized traditional, it was initially launched below a special title totally. In 2000, the Atlanta-based rapper signed to Def Jam’s newly established Southern rap subsidiary, Def Jam South, and have become the label’s preeminent ATL artist. Def Jam re-released his underground album Incognegro below its new title, Again For The First Time, led by the hotly-tipped single “What’s Your Fantasy?”
Ludacris was first found two years earlier when Timbaland featured the rapper (then billed as Ludichris) on the track “Fat Rabbit” from his 1998 album Tim’s Bio. Luda then wrote and recorded Incognegro, which he launched himself, on the label Disturbing tha Peace. Incognegro offered effectively sufficient to interrupt into the Billboard 200, and Ludacris was approached by Scarface of the Geto Boys, who was a consultant of Def Jam on the time.
In late 2000, Def Jam added a couple of songs to Incognegro and launched it as Again For The First Time. New tracks included a U.G.Okay. collaboration (“Stick ‘Em Up”), a Neptunes manufacturing (“Southern Hospitality”), and a remix of his beforehand launched track with Timbaland (retitled “Phat Rabbit”).
Order Ludacris’s Again For The First Time on vinyl now.
