In the hip hop game, much has been made of the top-notch emcee’s ability to paint word-pictures so vivid that they make listeners feel as if they are enjoying not just a pop song but a full-blown cinematic masterpiece. From Lil’ Weezy, who has claimed an ability to “spit movies like a VCR,” to Ice Cube, who parlayed rap stardom into a series of tremendous successes as a thespian, rap artists today think of film as both a conceptual jumping-off point for hot rhymes and a career move that can result in considerable expansion of one’s sphere of influence. Most hip hop heads, however, would agree that the man most uniquely suited to bring these two art forms into ear and eye-pleasing harmony is Chris “Ludacris” Bridges.
With performances in high-profile films like 2004’s Crash and the recent Max Payne under his belt, Luda has set out to bring the silver screen to the earbuds of listeners everywhere with his sixth studio album, Theater of the Mind. Thus far, the reviews h
