Ludacris’ DJ Experience Helps Balance Him Out

Experience as a DJ has helped Ludacris navigate the politics of the music business, he tells Doug Elfman of the Las Vegas Review Journal. “It balanced me out. Before, I couldn’t stand songs that were played on the radio. I was all about being underground,” he says. But now “I understand what went into rotation, and things of that nature.” Does that mean Ludacris developed a formula for making a hit song? “Not necessarily a formula,” he says. “But I do know what people want to hear.”