Not only is our first guest a three-time Grammy-winning
rapper, he's also a father and actor, and an entrepreneur.
Please welcome, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges.
Hey, what's up?
Luda.
What's going on?
You look like you're about to be on a roller coaster
at a theme park.
Where are you?
I'm in the studio.
This is my home studio here.
As you can see, speakers, keyboards,
everything in the background.
Oh, I see.
I get it.
It's where I have to come to because I have
nothing but women in my household,
so I have to come in here and lock the door so
that no one bothers me.
It's like the only place in my house
that I can 100% concentrate.
That's why I'm here.
Well, we don't mind that because that means more music from you.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
There you go.
That's the whole point.
Something of new music coming soon, for sure.
I can't wait.
It has been a few years since I've seen you.
But you came over to my-- the last time you're here,
you came over to my house after.
Oh my god.
You've given me bragging rights for a lifetime.
So I text Ellen and all of a sudden, I'm like,
can we go meet up somewhere?
She's like, yeah, just come to the crib.
I come to the crib.
First and foremost, everything is immaculate.
Your living room is bigger than my 15,000 square foot home
that I have here in Atlanta, Georgia.
Huge windows that at any moment I'm thinking a giraffe
is going to stick his head in there.
I'm going to have to feed him.
I was mind-blown just completely mind-blown.
Thank you for inviting me to your home.
I never expected that.
As a testament to how just heartwarming and just
hospitable that you are, so love [INAUDIBLE]..
Oh, well.
Well, I just like you a whole lot,
so you can come over anytime you want.
I like you, but you're in Atlanta.
And I don't know what you're talking about.
Your house is-- you've got so much
more going on at your house.
There's lots going on there.
Tell everybody what you've been doing there.
There is.
So because of quarantine, this is probably
the best property to quarantine at, besides your house.
Of course, I have like 22 acres of land.
I'm so used to traveling and never being here,
so I'm finally able to enjoy the fruits of my labor.
I'm finding things in my home and on my property
that I never even knew were there.
I actually have a tennis court, if you could believe it or not.
I didn't even know that this was on this property--
tree houses, saunas that I'm finding.
That's how much I was gone.
But I'm literally enjoying myself
because I'm able to finally relax and enjoy
this property that I've spent so much money on.
Yeah, well, that's the whole point.
It's not about work, it's about-- look at you.
That's dangerous what you're doing there.
You don't even have a helmet on.
Listen, let's not get into the safety of things.
You are 100% correct.
I really need-- listen, I'm never
riding without wearing a helmet anymore.
You're 100% correct.
I have no excuses for that.
That's all bad.
It's ludicrous.
I was going to say that.
So you have three girls, you said--
a house full of women.
And let's look at this video that you sent of--
you just let them do anything to you.
You know they say sand is a natural exfoliant for the skin.
Well, what do I know?
I'm just a dad that's on spring break with his kids.
[INAUDIBLE]?
It is a great exfoliant.
It's a great exfoliant.
But when you have daughters and they ask you for something,
and they put on that daughter face,
it's very difficult to say no, no matter what I do.
That's why I've locked myself in the studio.
I can't even go by their room without getting pulled
into a tea party and crumpets.
It's the craziest thing in the world.
They literally have me wrapped around their finger.
Well, they're precious.
Look at that, in their little G Wagon.
That's hilarious.
So you started rapping at a really young age
and is your youngest or any of them musical?
So they love that daddy is a musician and entertainer.
They hear my songs on the radio all the time,
so they like to try and come up with their own songs.
They have piano lessons and everything.
And now, recently, they're starting to put together
the original song.
Because at first, they love to sing everyone else's songs.
And they know that daddy creates original songs,
so they're trying to put rhymes and stuff together,
along with doing the piano.
Pretty soon, we'll have some little Alicia Keys around here,
hopefully.
But it's very entertaining.
I wish I had a video.
So next time I'm on The Ellen Show, I'll make sure I record
and document some of this stuff so you
can see them trying to come up with their own music.
I can't wait.
That's so cool.
Now they probably can't listen to a lot of your music
because you have some explicit language in there,
so you probably don't play a lot of your stuff.
I don't, but that's the exact reason why I came up
with the KidNation platform.
That's actually out.
That's what I came to show you at your home.
Because I have to balance out.
Yes, Ludacris makes all this adult content.
So now, we're making enriching content for kids.
So there you go.
As long as we balance-- life is about balance.
There you have it.
Right.
Right, and it's a smart idea.
I saw a video of you flying a plane.
When did you get your pilot's license?
I'm just as surprised as everyone else.
Internet just ran with the fact that I have an official pilot's
license when they saw this video.
I never said that.
But who am I to correct the internet?
The internet believes what they want to believe, right?
That's something that's called a nickel ride.
That term goes back to the military day.
So it's my first time actually really flying.
I actually own a plane.
But for all of these years, I've never
wanted to become a pilot because you can't drink alcohol
within eight hours of you flying.
So who would want to go on a vacation
and actually not drink before they're about to leave.
It's ridiculous.
It's ludicrous.
So long story short, that is the first of many.
But I do plan to get my pilot's license soon.
Wow.
So, it's a work in progress.
It takes some time.
Very cool.
You can fly your own plane now.
Exactly, but I can't drink eight hours before,
so I'm still trying to figure this out.
Yeah, it's a tough one.
It's a tough call.
You look great.
I can tell just looking at you.
But I heard that you said you were in the best
shape of your life right now.
What are you doing differently?
What specifically are you doing because you look great.
Thank you.
Now, people will tell you all day it's really about diet.
I have to learn how to cook for myself.
My wife is an amazing, amazing cook.
But I stay in the gym.
I do all different types of exercises.
You have to confuse the body.
I think that's one of the most important things.
Between diet and doing different exercises
and confusing the body, that is what
is going to lead you to your greatest goals
when it comes to exercising.
Wow, look at that.
You look incredible.
Well, I don't know.
My body is confused, and it doesn't look like that.
We're back with Chris "Ludacris" Bridges.
That's a clip from your new movie F9.
It's the next Fast and Furious.
So it was delayed because of COVID.
And finally now, people are going to get to see it.
You must be so excited.
I'm more excited than anyone else
because I actually have a check attached
to when the movie releases, and they kept pushing it back.
And as you know, I have 22 acres of land.
I have all girls.
That's a lot of nails.
That's a lot of hair.
I need this check, so can they please
stop pushing the movie back?
I need it to release.
That's why I'm excited.
I hear you.
So this is your sixth one.
Tell us what this one is about.
That's kind of a trick question these days
because there are so many Fast and Furious
movies that, at this point, I don't even
think that they've given the biggest plot of this movie
away yet.
Everything is a surprise.
I actually got in trouble for saying something
that I should not have set, revealing too many secrets.
At this point, people have to love this franchise enough
to just trust that it's going to be even
better than the previous one.
That's all I can say.
I don't even know what I can and can't say anymore.
But it's going to be great, and I'm
going to get a check when it releases.
That's all that matters.
I trust that it's going to be great.
They're always great.
All right, before you go, you've been posting videos
about Random Thoughts by Luda.
So I'm going to give you a couple of things.
I want to hear your thoughts before we go.
Group texting.
Oh my god.
I absolutely cannot stand group texting.
Because anybody that knows if you're in a group text
and two of the people that are in the group text
start telling each other and talking to each other,
and it's just them two and no one else has to hear it
but you have to be involved in all
of the things that your phone--
I absolutely cannot stand it when two people start talking
to each other.
They just need to call each other.
Stop doing it on the group chat.
I can't stand it.
Yeah, or just start your own chain.
What about poker?
Do you like poker?
Poker-- I love.
I actually won $30,000 on my 30th birthday in Vegas.
And guess what I did with the money?
You'll never believe this.
I put a playground on my property for the girls.
They probably played on it maybe three or four
times their entire existence, so I
don't know if the money went to good use or not.
It's ridiculous.
Well, I'd like to play--
I love poker.
I'd love to play with you sometime.
OK, stretching?
That's got to be good for you.
You must love stretching.
I hate stretching, which is crazy because I actually
made fun of somebody years ago before I
started really exercising hard.
And I asked what they did for exercise and they were like,
I stretch.
And I was like, that's not a real exercise.
Fast forward all these years later,
if you do not stretch, then, obviously,
you're not going to be able to move.
And as you get older, stretching is the most important part,
and that's how you increase your muscle strength.
So I feel sorry.
I'm not going to apologize live on The Ellen
Show for the person that I said they're not
exercising by stretching.
But it's a great thing.
But I still hate it.
I don't like.
Yeah.
No, but it's so important.
The older you get, that's what keeps you young
is being able to stretch.
Flat Earth Theory?
Flat Earth?
Listen, I can't stand in the Flat Earthers.
I don't know if there are any in the crowd, virtually.
I don't know.
I don't want anyone to get upset at me,
but you guys have got to stop with these theories.
We all, at this point, know that the Earth
is round like my Afro.
Please, stop.
It is ridiculous.
All right.
Hey, listen, I miss you.
I hope to see you again soon.
Man, I hope to see you, and you've
invited me to your house.
So if you're ever in Atlanta, Georgia,
you know damn well that you're invited to my home
here that I'm discovering new things every day as well,
so door's open.
Thank you so much.
I'm going to come play on that playground
that you built for your girls.
Sounds like a plan.
All right.
All right, F9 is in theaters starting June 25.
Everybody is going to rush to see that so you
can get your paycheck.
We'll be back.
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