Music

Slope Interviews Ludacris: Transcript  

by melissa.major 10 months ago

Melissa Major, from Slope Radio’s “Patron on Ice”, sits for a chit-chat with Luda.  Blueberry yum-yum included:

Melissa: Is there anything else you can’t do?

Ludacris: What can’t I do? I can’t cook very well, so I’m learning how to cook.  Even though I have my own restaurant, doesn’t mean I’m in the kitchen.  That’s something that I just started learning how to do, to cook.  Only thing I know how to cook is tacos.

Melissa: So describe your writing process for us—do you write the verses first, or do you have to hear the music first?

Ludacris: Mostly hear the music first because the music lays the foundation or atmosphere for the right emotion that I want, and that’s how I write, I write to how the music makes me feel.

Melissa: It inspires the words for you?

Ludacris: Exactly

Melissa: So we just saw Shawnna, she opened for you. You guys collaborated on What’s Your Fantasy.  Are you guys good friends?

Ludacris: Absolutely, that’s my own project.

Melissa: Really? That’s good.  Who would you say is your favorite person to collaborate with?

Ludacris: Favorite person to collaborate with, probably between Snoop Dogg and maybe Missy.  But I think Snoop Dogg holds the title.

Melissa: Yeah, I see that.  And if you could perform with any artist dead or alive who would it be?

Ludacris: Probably Tupac, just because he brings it out in people.  He even still now, may he rest in peace, still brings it out in people.

Melissa: Yes, still inspiration.  So what’s the difference between rapper Ludacris and actor Ludacris?

Ludacris: Rapper Ludacris, no holds bar, no rules.  There’s rules to the actor Ludacris.  You gotta follow somebody else’s rules and be on time to set.  Rapper Ludacris, I pretty much make my own rules.

Melissa: So they’re very different atmospheres?

Ludacris: Yeah absolutely.

Melissa: So do you have any advice for college kids like us?

Ludacris: Just continue.  You know, life is all about competition so whoever wants it the most, just continue to persevere, stay consistent, work hard, and you know, fight for the top spot.

Melissa: The number one spot?

Ludacris: Yes, exactly.

Melissa: So, where do you get your inspiration for your music videos because they’re pretty funny, humorous a lot of the time?

Ludacris: I don’t know where I get it from; I just love to have a good time. I like to have fun, I love to laugh, and it just kinda comes. I just like expressing my personality throughout videos, it’s as simple as that.

Melissa: Ok I’m going to ask you four questions and I want you to tell me the word that comes to your mind right away.  What is your favorite drink?

Ludacris: Blueberry yum yum.  We made up a drink called blueberry yum yum in my restaurant, and it is currently my favorite drink.

Melissa: Oh, I didn’t know that blueberry yum yum was a drink.

Ludacris: Yeah, it’s a drink also.  It started out as a drink.  And now it’s a drink so that answers two of my beer questions.

Melissa: Yeah, we watched your music video for Blueberry Yum Yum the other day.

Ludacris: Good stuff good stuff.

Melissa: Oh Yeah, we loved it.

Ludacris: Glad you liked it.

Melissa: Boxers or brief?

Ludacris: For me?  I would say boxers when I’m just chilling but briefs when I’m working out. I wear both.

Melissa: So Keystone Light or Natty Light?

Ludacris: What?  What the hell?

Melissa: I guess you don’t go to a lot of frat parties.

Ludacris: There’s no light on any of the equations on anything I ever drink.  Take the lights out.

Melissa: Ok Keystone or Natty then.  Neither?

Ludacris: Uhh I don’t know.  JB help me out on that one.  Ted, I know you know.

Ted: Definitely Natty.

Ludacris: I don’t drink any one of those; I’m a corona guy myself.

Melissa: And what is your favorite word?

Ludacris: Shit.  I don’t know my favorite word.  Money.  That’s a great word.

Melissa: Well I think that’s it. Thank you very much for sitting down and talking with us.

Ludacris: What up, this is Ludacris right now, you’re watching slope TV

The Slog

The Slog – Vol. 2, Iss. 6  

by Losh 10 months ago

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Chit Chat with Kit Kat

Chit Chat with Kit Kat- Season 2 Episode 5 (11/10)  

by Kit Lyman 10 months ago

Helllooooo everybody!! Today I talked about people who ruin your day from the start, the unnecessary amount of sanitizers on campus, dumb websites that try to evaluate your psychological state, "baby" names, DDs, and some outrageous news stories. I was blessed with funnyman Jarvis Veira as a guest on my show. Yes ladies, THE Jarvis Veira, the only straight man in fashion, with looks that kill and style that sizzles. Ok, sizzles is a weird word, but I'm in an uncreative mood at the moment. I grilled him with tough questions, he delves into the female creature and we find out that he really is as vain as we thought he was. Tune in and enjoy! Skip to 7 minutes in for the talking to begin. I'll be back next tuesday at 4! Love you all!!!! Kit

Pop Critiq

You Should Have Known  

by oliver.beach 10 months ago

POP CRITIQ IS BACK WITH A BANG THIS WEEK. MUSIC FROM SUPERSTARS SUCH AS DAVID GUETTA, LEONA LEWIS, FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE, ALICIA KEYS, BLACK EYED PEAS AND MORE UNRELEASED TRACKS. WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE GOSSIP GIRL THREESOME, BOSTON, TURNING 21 yes!, AND RIHANNA'S TELL ALL INTERVIEW AND FAMILY GUY MAKING FUN OF DEAF PEOPLE. TUT TUT AND OBVIOUSLY GAGA.how could i forget! ENJOY TOMORROW. xoxo

The Slog

The Slog – Vol. 2, Iss. 5  

by Losh 11 months ago

BEAUTY IS NOT IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER. IT'S IN THE EYES OF THE SLOG

Cyber Sex

Excuses  

by Losh 11 months ago

Recently, I feel like I’ve heard a hundred stories about Cornellians using rape as an excuse to cover up cheating or promiscuity.  While I’d like to think our peers are above trivializing rape, unfortunately, it seems that this is not always the case. I’ve heard about numerous sorority girls who hook-up in frat bathrooms, but tell their friends they were raped so their boyfriends won’t think they cheated.  And I’ve chatted with guys who are so embarrassed by the chick they picked up at the Palms that they defend their pride by joking, “Dude, she totally raped me”.

These common college tales might not seem like a huge deal.  In the grand scheme of things, they probably aren’t.  Nobody got hurt.  Nobody went to jail.  But when I start to think about real rape situations, these trivializations put a bad taste in my mouth.  Specifically, after reading about a recent California gang rape, I became increasingly frustrated by the number of Cornell students who think of rape as a joke or as distant phenomenon that couldn’t penetrate our ivy-covered gates.

For those of you who aren’t up to date on your New York Times, I’ll give you a quick recap.  On Saturday night, a fifteen-year-old girl from Richmond High School (Richmond, CA) was sexually assaulted and rape while leaving her homecoming dance.  Local police reported that “[she] was walking to meet her father for a ride home when a classmate invited her to join a group drinking in the school courtyard”.  After becoming severely intoxicated, the unconscious girl was raped by a number of young men in the group.  The Richmond Police Department was tipped off about the assault after overhearing a number of students bragging about the incident in a neighborhood restaurant.  A few hours later, they discovered the female student semiconscious and naked next to a school picnic table.  As of now, six men ranging from fifteen to twenty-one years in age have been arrested on charges of rape, sexual assault, battery, and robbery.

By now, you’re probably wondering why I’ve chosen to discuss this case instead of talking about something a bit more light-hearted and entertaining.  The truth is, I think that rape—and particularly the way New York state law defines sexual offenses—is something that college students know too little about.  Of course, I can’t remedy this lack of knowledge in a single blog, but I can better inform those of you who have followed me this far.  Listed below are several critical components of New York state laws regarding rape:

  1. Only a male can be the perpetrator; only a woman can be the victim.
  2. The act must be committed against the victim’s will and without consent.
  3. Consent cannot occur if the victim is under seventeen, threatened, or drunk.

I’d imagine that these laws surprise many of you.  I’d even go as far as to say that some of you are starting to think, “Well, I’ve had drunk sex.  Does this mean I’ve been raped?”  The answer is no.  These laws do not mean that you should feel violated or report every

incident of drunken sex to the Cornell PD.  It does mean, however, that many males and females on our campus are consenting to sex that they aren’t legally capable of consenting to.

Although drunken one-night stands many not seem as extreme as the aforementioned case in California, they are still extremely serious and may legally qualify as an incident of rape.  So the next time you’re leaving the bars with a potential partner who looks like he might not make it down College Ave., I encourage you to consider whether or not this is kind of sex you really want to consent to.

Cyber Sex

Goal Setting  

by Losh 11 months ago

I don’t think I have to tell you that Cornell students are goal-oriented.  You all know the pre-med junkies who set goals about beating the mean on an orgo prelim.  Or the frat stars who set rigorous goals about winning their next intramural flag football game.  Even the library faithfuls set goals about how to run into that cute guy (or girl) late-night in Olin Café.

But there are some goals all of us orient towards that we aren’t consciously aware of.  These subconscious goals are, of course, sexual goals.  No, I don’t mean the type of goal you make about how many girls to bang after a weekend at Johnny O’s.

I mean the ultimate sexual goal: the orgasm.

Think back to your last hook-up.  Did you or your partner grunt, “Are you close?” or “Did you come?” at least once in the heat of the moment?  I’m gonna have to guess that yes, you did.  Now, I’m not asking you this question to criticize your sexual habits or to make you question your lusty pillow talk.  I’m simply asking to reinforce the important point that this is a pattern we as goal-oriented college students tend to fall into.

The truth is, the majority of us—and by us, I mean virtually every sexually active human in the world—have come to believe that orgasms are the be all end all of sex.  Obviously, this makes perfect sense.  After all the thrusting, humping, grinding, and groping, it’s rewarding to see the light at the end of the tunnel; to feel the instantaneous calm that comes over your body with those perfectly located muscle contractions.  But in focusing on achieving the final goal of the orgasm, are we actually missing out on a lot of the pleasure and toe-curling fun we could be experiencing along the way?

Sociological research hypothesizes that Americans’ preoccupation with the orgasm grew out of our founding father’s Protestant work ethic.  Based on this stringent work ethic, it was believed that nothing could be enjoyed for its own sake.  Thus, all types of physical and mental work, including sex, had to have a marker of success.  As you can guess, the mark of sexual success inevitably became the orgasm.

Consider contemporary sexuality.  There are undeniable pressures to be a rock star in the sack.  Guys talk to their friends about performance anxiety and what girl’s might say about their sex savvy.  Girls’ sexual self-worth is completely measured in terms of whether or not they can have an orgasm—or several—in a four-minute sexcapade.  However, when we measure our sexual success by whether or not we “get there”, we’re discounting other activities that might not necessarily end in orgasm.  Activities like touching, kissing, or caressing may not get you to the big “O”, but they are definitely legitimate and enjoyable aspects of any pleasurable hook-up.

So what does this mean for you and yours?  First and foremost, stop asking you partner “Was it good for you?” immediately after you pull-out.  This not only kills the mood, it also kills any intimacy that may have sparked between the two of you.  Instead start thinking in the moment.  Enjoy every look, every touch.  If you come right way, great.  If you don’t, stop freaking out.   In your search to stay in the moment, you may even discover some bed-shaking moves that you’d completely missed out on along the way.

Long Story Short

Long Story Short Episode 6  

by andrea.sanders 11 months ago

Things get crazy on LSS this week when our newly formed facebook group sky rockets to 138 members. Topics discussed include transportation on campus, part 2 to the illusive buttery pasta story, massages by andrea, event overload on facbeook, the mysterious three periods of hockey and ryan's famous purrel theory Playlist 1. Hey Ya - Outkast 2. Santeria - Sublime 3. J'ai Ho - Slumdog Millionaire 4. Curbside Prophet - Jason Mraz 5. I Summon You - Spoon 6. Cabron - Red Hot Chilli Peppers Event Updates: Llenroc and KD Haunted house, as well as Pi Kapp haunted house with AXiD bakesale 7. Pink - Key Elements Last Song: A-punk - Vampire Weekend

The Slog

The Slog – Vol. 2, Iss. 3  

by Losh 11 months ago

Volume 2 Issue 3

Music

What’s Ur Fantasy?  

by erinn.cawthon 11 months ago

The shouts of, “LUDA, LUDA, LUDA!” resounded around the halls of Barton Hall on February 28, 2009. Too bad for the “I’m-too-cool-to-pay-for-a-ticket-this-early” fans, who attempted to pay over $50.00 for a ticket over Facebook, hours before the show (cue the Fbook status of: “If anyone has extra Luda tix, message me plz!!!”).

Hoping this concert would not be a repeat of last year’s pathetic attempt to put T-Pain on a stage, replace the featured artist with DJ-not-so-Unk, and moreover confuse the crap out of the dancing crowd by playing the only 20 seconds (or less) parts that T-Pain raps to, mostly everyone was relieved they could actually enjoy the concert.

Opening act Shawnna, from Ludacris’ “Disturbing the Peace Records”, wowed the crowd with her crazy curly hair, “Wasted Youth” tank top and black tights. Shawnna is best known for rapping in Ludacris’ “What’s Your Fantasy” and “Gettin’ Some.” Shawnna was especially favored towards the female audience as she paraded seemingly girl-power antics about being a female rapper. Following this act, her dual microphone battle evidently proved her ability to try and rap just as fast as the legendary Twista.

After Shawnna and her booty-bouncing backup dancers said their farewells, the audience waited for the real concert to start. Surprisingly, the DJ’s mix of interlude songs provided the audience with the utmost current songs as the crowd started to “fly like paper…”(some getting high like planes), while others chose to rock out to the beat of Lil’ Wayne’s “Lollipop (remix).”

As promised by our faithful DJ, Ludacris defiantly strolled across the stage. His opening act of “Number One Spot” ended as members of the audience proceeded to curse at Ludacris for being so tardy to start his own concert (instructed to do so by Ludacris himself). Screams erupted as Ludacris busted out with “Southern Hospitality,” “Act a Fool,” “What Them Girls Like,” “Money Maker,” a brief rap section in “Yeah!” and finally the more recent “One More Drink.”

The rapper took the audience back to one of his first songs, “What’s Your Fantasy” as Shawnna re-entered the scene, bringing the two acts together to the elation of fans. Intertwining all these songs with funny interludes and comments, Ludacris certainly captured everybody’s attention with his comical character, profanity, and upbeat sounds.

However, the whole concert would not be anything without the organizations that helped manage it. Joseph Scaffido, advisor of the CCC (Cornell Concert Commission), shared with us a few words regarding the process of having a successful concert.

“The concert itself was sponsored by MCFAB [Minority Concert Finance Advisory Board]. They started getting it together in November, but actually secured Ludacris in December.”

Scaffido then went on to talk about how the organization actually decided to choose Ludacris.

“ALANA [African, Latino, Asian, and Native American Programming Board] is charged with of getting a primary list of available acts together that would be appealing to the minority community, then they work with CCC to determine those that would work best based on price, routing, etc. Once Ludacris was confirmed, they decided on the opening act. Not a lot of people want to travel to upstate New York in February, you know…because it’s cold. The fact that Shawnna and Ludacris are on the same label certainly helped.”

As Scaffido and others from the Concert Commission also assist with wrapping up the year with the Girl Talk concert, we can only hope that Slope Day, with those infamous Pussycat Dolls, will be equally tasteful.

Author: Erinn Cawthon

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