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March 31, 2004 - Ludacris and Kayne West performed live at the Boost Mobile Pro Snowboard event held at Soldiers Field Grounds in Chicago, Illinois on Saturday (March 27). Check out pictures from LFI.

March 29, 2004 - Usher, Ludacris and Lil' Jon stopped by MTV's Total Request Live on Tuesday (March 23) at MTV Studios in New York City to perform 'Yeah' live. Watch a replay of the performance online at MTV.com.

March 29, 2004 - Jay-Z, Fabolous, Busta Rhymes, Carl Thomas, Ryan of City High, De La Soul, DJ Clue, Fabolous, J-Kwon, Ja Rule, Jadakiss, Joe Budden, Lil' Jon, Little X, Ludacris, Vinnie of Naughty By Nature were on hand for the AOL Music Broadband Rocks Live Concert with Usher at Webster Hall followed by an afterparty at Boulevard in New York City on Tuesday (March 23). Check out pictures here.

March 25, 2004 - Usher, Ludacris and Lil' Jon stopped by MTV's Total Request Live on Tuesday (March 23) at MTV Studios in New York City. Check out pictures from FilmMagic, GettyImages, and WireImage.

March 25, 2004 - To celebrate the release of his new album 'Confessions', Usher came in to hang out with Dave Pearce on Radio 1's Late Drive. During the interview, he talked about collaborating with Ludacris on his smash hit 'Yeah'. "Having such a hot record, I wanted to put some rapping on it, Usher explained. "So we reached out to Ludacris who's one of the hottest cats in Atlanta and we made it happen." Listen to the entire interview here.

March 25, 2004 - Ludacris and Chingy performed on the 'Chicken 'N Beer' Tour 2004 on Sunday (March 21) at The Wiltern LG in Los Angeles. Check out pictures from WireImage.

March 22, 2004 - Ludacris performed in concert at the Fillmore Auditorium on Wednesday (March 17) in Denver, Colorado. Check out pictures from WireImage.

March 11, 2004 - Ludacris performed in concert at the State Theater on Sunday (March 7) in Detroit, Michigan. Check out pictures from WireImage.

March 11, 2004 - Ludacris tells MTV News fans forced him to put out his new video 'Southern Fried Intro/ Blow It Out' only a few weeks after 'Splash Waterfalls' aired. "I tell everybody that if it was up to me I would shoot a video for every song off the 'Chicken-N-Beer' album," he beamed. "I had to do it, man. You go with the street buzz. Everybody tells me how much they love the intro to the album and 'Blow It Out.' [When I recorded it,] it was a time when a lot of political people and people on television were going against me. I'm here to let them know I built a strong foundation for for myself and I ain't going nowhere. I felt I needed to do it." Read more.

March 8, 2004 - Ludacris and Chingy's performed in concert at Hammerstein Ballroom on Thursday (March 4) in New York City. Check out pictures from WireImage.

March 5, 2004 - No to Jesus, yes to "gangsta rap", that was the subject of 'The O'Reilly Factor's' 'Talking Points' on Wednesday. Bill O'Reilly blasted columnists critical of 'The Passion', while giving people like Ludacris a pass. Watch Bill's commentary here.

March 5, 2004 - Ludacris appeared on MTV's 'Total Request Live' at the MTV Times Square Studios on Tuesday (March 2) in New York City. Check out pictures from here.

March 5, 2004 - Ludacris performed live in concert at Assembly Hall in Champaign, Illinois on Monday (March 1). Check out pictures from RexFeatures and MediumPhoto.

March 3, 2004 - Fans of Ludacris may have cringed last week following reports that the National Alliance, a white-supremacist group in Casper, Wyoming, was passing out flyers and lobbying to ban the city's Disturbing Tha Peace tour date. Luda, however, says he's getting too much love in other area codes to devote energy to the ignorant. "Yeah, I heard about it. Ain't nothing new," Ludacris told MTV News. "[Stuff] like this has happened on tour before. All we do is make sure we're prepared for anything that's going to happen, do our show and get the hell on. Ain't nothing new to us. We've had opposition in a lot of places over the past four years, so this ain't no surprise." Read more.

March 3, 2004 - Shawn Tully of Fortune magazine was on 'The O'Reilly Factor' to discuss whether Anheuser Busch was making a mistake using Ludacris to sell beer, as Bill O'Reilly continues his assault on hip hop, primarily focused on Ludacris. O'Reilly wondered why they don't hire a mobster like John Gotti instead. Watch the interview here (click the 'options' button).

March 3, 2004 - Ken Capobianco of the Boston Globe spoke with Ludacris about the wealth he's created since moving from struggling DJ to one of hip hop's leading rappers. "I can't say that I don't look at record sales because I do," he said with a hint of pride. "You want to be respected artistically, but you also want to be heard, and I want to sell as many records as I can before I'm through. Always taking it higher, never resting on what you've done and always looking at how to make the next song hotter than the next. Ask any MC, that's how you sell records." Read more.

March 3, 2004 - The Anheuser-Busch Corporation has signed a deal with rapper Ludacris, paying him big money to sell beer, and Bill O'Reilly of 'The O'Reilly Factor' went after him on his 'Talking Points' segment. Watch the commentary here (click the 'options' button).

March 3, 2004 - Matthew Lurie of the Chicago Tribune reviewed the Ludacris, Chingy and David Banner gig at the Congress Theater on Saturday (February 28). Lurie writes, "Ludacris might have been the biggest act of the evening, but he was anything but complacent in his headliner slot. He spent the first half of his set alone onstage, relying on only himself and an uncomfortably blinding light show to rally the audience, and then decided to eschew the commonplace vocal backing track that often picks up most mainstream rappers' slack." But he added, "It was David Banner, though, who was by far the most remarkable performer of the evening." Read more.

March 1, 2004 - Bill O'Reilly of the Fox News Channel is again going to be going after Ludacris in 'The O'Reilly Factor', questioning his endorsement deal with Budweiser. The show airs at 8PM ET.

March 1, 2004 - Ludacris performs on MTV's 'Total Request Live' on Tuesday.

March 1, 2004 - Ludacris performed on His 'Chicken and Beer' Tour on Wednesday (February 25) at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas. Check out pictures from WireImage.

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