(audience cheers)
How you doing?
I'm good. How are you doing?
I'm doing fine. Thanks for being here.
Thanks for having me, man. It's my first time.
I know, it's good to have you.
Did you check out my,
you could sample my singing if you ever want.
You can just put that on and rap, right?
(sings in a high pitch) Ha!
A little of that in there or something?
Sorry, man (drowned out by Conan)
Not gonna happen. I didn't think so.
(audience laughs)
(Conan laughs)
(audience sighs sympathetically)
Come on! He's got to make a career here!
(audience and Ludacris laugh)
"Aw, ruin your career for Conan!"
Now I have a question for you.
You have a very exciting life
and you obviously like performing these,
these crowds that are just so excited
and you get so much energy from them.
Now you're making films.
And this is good news. You have a great film career.
It's such, people don't understand
making films is so boring.
You know, there's so much downtime.
There's so much that's not happening.
How do you handle that?
It's a lot of downtime.
I have to do something with my time.
It's funny you should ask that
because actually on the set of 2 Fast 2 Furious,
it was so much downtime that I actually
I had to turn my trailer into, like, a club.
And invite extras over.
(audience laughs) Yeah, man.
Well, wait a minute.
What did you do to your trailer to make it into a club?
I called it Club Luda.
You see, I went to Walmart, all right?
I got as many different Christmas lights,
got a little strobe light, man.
And just used every, every
amount of juice, electricity that you could use
and just turned my trailer into a club, man.
So you had music, you had a good time?
I had music going on, there was CDs.
I had a security patting people down at the front door.
(audience and Conan laugh)
Had it all!
This sounds like a very cool trailer.
I wish I'd come by.
Oh, man. You see, you missed Club Luda, man.
I blew it. I blew it.
But when you and I are working together
on my album, we'll spend time together.
Right, right, right.
Now I've heard that you are a aficionado of strip clubs.
That you consider yourself an expert on strip clubs.
Is this true, first of all?
Well you see, I've been to,
I've been all over the world. You know?
Yes. I've traveled quite a lot and I've come to--
I like how that has to mean strip clubs.
Yes. I've come to the conclusion that
Atlanta, Georgia, where I'm from,
has the best strip clubs.
(audience members cheer)
See? They know! (Audience laughs)
They got the best strip clubs in the world!
Yeah. But just hoping we don't cut to them.
(laughs)
Yay! I mean, I wouldn't know, uh.
What is this strip club you speak of?
(Ludacris laughs)
Okay. What is it that you look for
in a, in a, in a strip?
What do you, what do you want?
Right. I mean, of course the women, first and foremost.
The curves, you know, how they shake.
They get it down to a science.
You hear the newest music in the club in Atlanta, Georgia.
And funny enough, the food is great.
(laughs) But the food?
Yeah, man, I'm telling you--
Who's going to a strip club for the food?
I'm telling you, I know it's--
Get your breasts out of the way!
I'm trying to eat some lasagna!
(audience laughs)
(grunts)
You can say that until you come to the strip club
and check out one of the dishes, man.
You got me, I gotta go!
(audience laughs)
My wife will say, "You are not going."
"I'm going for the food, honey."
Exactly. You can tell her that. For real.
They have a vinegarette there I have to try.
(audience and Ludacris laugh)
All right. Now you talked about the curves.
What do you, people want to know,
what do you look for in a woman?
Of course, intelligence, confidence.
You know, I kinda know when I see it.
But the most important thing is
you got to have pretty feet.
Are you serious? Pretty feet?
Yeah!
Not a lot of guys say feet.
They don't go right to feet, but you like feet.
I love feet.
It's like, if your feet are messed up,
then just wear boots. Please!
(audience laughs loudly)
That's all I ask!
You know what I'm saying?
Don't have them out if they not right.
(Conan laughs)
Okay. All right.
What if a woman's just drop dead,
unbelievably gorgeous, smart, talented,
but then her feet aren't happening.
We gotta, I can't really do much with that, man.
We gotta work with the feet somehow.
Okay. Let's say Halle Berry had bad feet.
What if Halle Berry unfortunately
had feet that weren't so great?
Aha, but she doesn't.
And that's what you don't know.
She has great feet.
I peeked it out, man. Everything.
Are you sure? Are you sure?
How do you know she has great feet?
Cause I know! You could look--
What do you mean, you peeked it out?
What do you mean, you hired people?
Your job is to check out Halle Berry's feet.
Now get going!
It goes so bad, even if you look in the magazines
and they have their toes out,
you can look and see it.
No, but they can airbrush!
That's, you can't tell that way!
I've hear of people airbrushing,
you know, facial features.
I've heard of them airbrushing curves.
But I've never heard of them airbrushing feet.
So you know what? You might be right.
We have one way to figure this out,
which is Halle Berry was on my show couple years ago.
And she'd been, she's been on the show a lot.
She was just on the show recently for X-Men.
But she was on the show a couple of years ago,
and she didn't wear shoes during her appearance.
See go a head and show 'em. I'll watch.
And we can actually show that
and we can see what her feet looked like.
Let's get, there at her feet right there.
Are those pretty feet? You think?
Let's zoom in a little bit. Get close on those!
Let's see how those look.
(Audience roars with laughter) See?
It's not good.
(Ludacris giggles)
It's just not good.
That was a special effect!
That's a very good technology we have.
Yeah, we have very good camera work here.
(Ludacris giggles)
Now, I know I would give,
I would just give my left arm if I could write a song
where...and I can't.
But I would love to do that.
Where do you write your music?
The majority of my music is written inside vehicles.
Actually while they're in motion, while I'm driving.
While you're driving.
So you can...
But what if you get a really good idea
for a lyric and you, I mean, you're driving.
Yeah. I mean, I drive with my knees, man.
You know, I can drive with my knees and write.
I know it's dangerous, but it happens.
A lot of the songs that
you all love today. So literally you'll just
be there driving with your knees, writing a tune.
Writing a tune.
You know, and if it's, if it's that serious,
then I just pull over.
You know what I'm saying? For a little while.
I hope so, yeah!
Yeah. You're like, I'm just going to pull over right here.
I'll just turn.
I'm telling you, gotta get,
you gotta get it down to a science, man.
Knee driving is getting very popular these days. (laughs)
Well, the cops are looking for you now.
that's for sure. (Ludacris laughs)
Be on the lookout for the knee driver, Ludacris.
Exactly.
All right. Well, you were talking about cars.
In 2 Fast 2 Furious,
you know, you get to be around all these fast cars.
Do you like to drive fast?
Man, I drive fast all the time.
[Conan] Really?
Yeah, I love to drive fast. I can't help it.
Right. Well, okay.
What's the fastest that you've driven?
About, like on the Autobahn, whatever.
And that's 200--
In Germany, can't you go.
There's no speed limit there? Is that right?
Nope. Not at all.
I think I went about 280 kilometers
which I think is about 180 miles per hour
if I'm not mistaken. Somewhere around there.
It's just cool to say I did 280
and leave out the kilometers.
(audience and Ludacris laugh)
What'd you do? About 280.
(speaks in a high voice) Kilometers.
(Audience laughs)
Yeah.
Wow. Two, I mean, wow. Okay.
Yeah. I mean, I've gotten a speeding ticket before
and basically I was going over a hundred.
I was in Atlanta, Georgia.
The guy gave me a ticket.
I actually had to go to traffic school because of it.
And I didn't want to sit in traffic school
with, like, a bunch of strangers.
So I had to recruit all my friends to come sit
in traffic school with me.
And they all came with you?
They all came with me.
They all took the day off from work
and just was like, all right?
We're gonna go help him out?
I got, I got friends that love me, man. You know?
[Conan] That's nice.
So they came and sat with me,
and you know, through the long time period
and we made it happen.
That is real love when people
will go to traffic school with you.
It really is. Thank you,
everybody who came to traffic school with me.
(laughs)
Now the, the heart of the game,
you're narrating this.
And okay, Why do you think they chose you to narrate?
Man. You know, I I've been told I have
a very powerful voice, you know, that demands attention.
A very good voice, so they came to me.
I laid it down, made it happen with no problem whatsoever.
Very nice. Okay.
So yeah. And it must be nice
going through life with a voice like that.
Oh, definitely.
You know, I use my voice
as an instrument and as a tool all the time.
Right.
But also just when you're talking to the ladies
it must be nice to have a voice like that.
Of course! I mean, I don't know.
Ladies, what do y'all think?
(audience cheers)
See? They like it!
My voice is always
(speaks in a quick, high voice) you know, kinda way up here
when I get talking fast.
See, I peeped it out.
I peeped your voice out when you were singing over there.
Yeah. So yeah, you know, yeah.
When I was in, like, high school and stuff
and I'd talk to girls and be like,
Hey, do you wanna go to the prom?
What do you think?
Did it work?
It was way up there. Uh, no. It didn't work.
(audience and Ludacris laugh)
Then I'd knee drive home and it was sad.
You gotta knee drive, man.
(laughs) No, kids. Don't knee drive.
Ludicrous says you gotta knee drive.
The Heart of the Game opens Friday in select cities.
And thank you so much for being here.
(audience cheers) Thank you for having me, man.
Chris "Ludacris" Bridges.
We're gonna be right back. Van Hunt! Stick around.