Southern Hospitality
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| "Southern Hospitality" | ||
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| Single by Ludacris | ||
| from the album Back For The First Time | ||
| Released | Oct 17 2000 | |
| Recorded | 2000 | |
| Genre | Hip hop | |
| Length | 4:40 | |
| Label | Def Jam | |
| Writer(s) | C. Bridges P. Williams |
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| Producer(s) | The Neptunes | |
| Chart positions | ||
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| Ludacris singles chronology | ||
| What's Your Fantasy (2000) |
"Southern Hospitality" (2000) |
Area Codes (2001) |
Southern Hospitality is the second single released off Ludacris's album entitled Back for the First Time released in 2000. The song was composed by The Neptunes. The song showcases the term Throw Dem Bows.
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[edit] Video Summary
For the beginning of the video, the camera shows 'Welcome to Atlanta in red on a doormat, which leads to some steps that Ludacris and his associates walk out from. Coming out of the house, Luda and his friends strut as the music plays. To the start of the music, Luda raps in a black background.[1] The two scenes switch back and forth rapidly with the fast pace of Luda’s flow. Next, some local men are seen walking to the three car garage, and each person lifts up the top. One of the garages reveals a black Cadillac.
This scene is interrupted with Luda rapping alone continuously. Ludacris who raps in a red and yellow jacket raps apart the Cadillac’s grills and wheels, while the camera shows Ludacris driving the car with a woman inside and the wheels and grills of the car. [1] When Ludacris says spills, the camera zooms in on a spill of black ink. The backside of a silver Escalade shows.
Following this, three women are dancing slowly in a black background close to each other. Ludacris next appears with one of the women; he is shot close up while rhyming. Then he is back in the escalade.[1] Afterwards, the two women walk slowly down the block; supposedly Ludacris's sees them sense his facial expression shows his eyes drop. In one scene, two men are seen hanging out. Then in another, four women stand in front of a place called the Rib shack. Then several women appear in the black background dancing. This changes from three dancing women back to about seven women dancing continuously. Following this, Ludacris again is shown driving; he sticks his head out the window, while raps. The dancing women appear after this verse. Note that Ludacris's gestures pertain to his lyrics when he says Anyone who calls and a cell-phone is in his hand.[1]
The scene in which he drives stops, when him and a group of associates pose in front of a Rib shack. Ludacris pops the collar of his jacket. His friends dance slowly, as Ludacris passes by them popping his shirt. Him and his friends walk down the street with assertive body language. Odd enough the video so special effects of Ludacris's arm duplicated several times.[1]
Continuing on, a random line of local people appear to be dancing.[1] Random actions occur from the people around, including a woman who wildly swings her arm showing off and his friends point at her. The camera then turns back over to Ludacris shortly, then on of the people is shown offering a plate of catfish, but the camera doesn't show who since it is a close-up.[1] Now, Ludacris and his friends wildly walk through the streets. Randomly, he and another woman (who dances fastly) appear in the black background shortly. This scene appears seconds later this time with three women, then Ludacris alone rhyming. The camera shows Ludacris’s left side of his face rapping (which appears huge), and him raping in the distance several times. Then the camera shoots Luda's friend looking up at them, in one instance they are horse playing, then they are shown wearing suits and standing up straight.
Ludacris then goes back on screen in the black background, when se says gold, he wears some mouth wear over his mouth. Then quickly and wildly, he and his fiends walk around the block, strutting, acting with megalomania on the block.[1] Then a different woman, is shown in the dark background with Ludacris. He's shown with the shark-like mouth wear a few times. Several times Ludacris looks at the woman dancing right in front of him while he raps. Then he and his fiends are shown doing their usually playful gestures. His fiends for the first time in the video appear with him in the dark background, then they all show back and forth in front of the rib shack, and walking with Ludacris. In addition, the camera shoots up at a shirt of women dancing. Then a small crowd of people near a barbershop appears having fun. The people around constantly dance unexplainably.
Those scenes constantly intervene each other as Ludacris and his piers walk around. Ludacris uncannily lifts up one of his friends legs; in the dark background the camera again shows him duplicating himself in a gradual sense.[1] Women next walk down a random place in the neighborhood. A friend of Ludacris and himself watch. Then the camera, shows Ludacris and some girls behind him running around a building. Then Ludacris runs out into the streets. Instantaneously, he sees a black tour bus meet up with him with Def Jam on the bottom. The vehicle passes by. This creates an illusion of Ludacris getting hit.[1]
Here's what happens, the women who were running with him stop and stand on the sidewalk. Afterwards, Ludacris in a bush is shot upside down rapping.[1] During this instance, a random shot of his friend's passing by shows. He says afro picks (a man picks his hair), afro chicks to a black woman in a bush and tan coat. Ludacris shakes a passing man while upside down. Luda and his fiends going down the street randomly show. Once more, strangers dance to the music. A random shot shows Lil Jon, wearing black shades and his friends acting wild at the rib shack.[1] Images of women and Luda in the dark background randomly appear as well as his friends walking down the street. An original scene of Luda and his friends showing off near the rib shack shows. Most of the video sees people dancing and strutting unexplainably at random times. [1] However in one scene, a group of boys with similar clothes of Luda and his friends appears.[1]
The video and song overall displays how the people in the south react to each other and how they look act, and dance.[1]
[edit] Billboard Chart summary
Southern Hospitality did very good as well for Ludacris, though it’s to success can be credited to the Rap charts alone. He had peak positions of 5 and 6.[2]
[edit] Billboard charts
| Chart | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 23 |
| U.S. Hot Rap Tracks | 5 |
| U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | 6 [2] |
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o The Second Single is in the South. Retrieved on December 6, 2006.
- ^ a b Back For The First Time song positions. Retrieved on December 6, 2006.
| Ludacris |
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| Discography |
| Albums |
| Incognegro • Back For The First Time • Word of Mouf • Chicken-N-Beer • The Red Light District • Release Therapy • Theater of the Mind |
| Singles |
| "Whats Your Fantasy" • "Southern Hospitality" • "Area Codes" • "Rollout (My Business)" • "Move Bitch" • "Saturday (Oooh Oooh)" • "Growing Pains (Do It Again) Remix" • "Act a Fool" • "Stand Up" • "Splash Waterfalls" • "Diamond In The Back" • "Blow It Out" • "Get Back" • "Number One Spot"/"Potion" • "Pimpin' All Over the World" • "Georgia" • "Money Maker" • "Grew Up a Screw Up" • "Runaway Love" • "Glamorous" • "Slap" |
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| The Wash • 2 Fast 2 Furious • Crash • Hustle & Flow • The Heart of the Game • Ballers • Fred Claus |
