Chicken-n-Beer: Where Are They Now?
The double platinum LP celebrates its 10-year anniversary.
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Chicken-n-Beer, Where are They Now? - Ten years ago, Ludacris released his double platinum LP Chicken-n-Beer, LP, which blended party-rockin' rhythms with elastic monster rhyming and raunchy adult humor. Here's a look at the players behind the album and what they've been doing since Luda's third LP. (Photo: Courtesy of Island Def Jam)
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The Neptunes - Famed production duo The Neptunes crafted the rhythm for the track "P-Poppin." Since then, Chad Hugo and Pharrell have maintained the Midas music touch. Recently, Mr Hugo did production for Earl Sweatshirt's debut LP Doris. And Pharrell produced the smash title track for Robin Thicke's LP Blurred Lines. He also co-wrote Daft Punk's summer hit "Get Lucky." (Photo: Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic/Getty Images)
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Erick Sermon - On "Hip Hop Quotables" Ludacris verbally rode the funk shaped by hip hop vet Erick Sermon. The former half of rap duo EPMD, Sermon has equally maintained his music career as a producer, crafting tunes for iconic artists like Redman, LL Cool J and Mary J. Blige. While he still keeps his hand in the game, E Double has maintained a low profile after suffering a mild heart attack in 2011. (Photo: Ben Gabbe/Getty Images)
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Kanye West - Kanye West built the bombastic beat for the LP's hit single "Stand Up." Needless to say life's been busy for the self-described musical genius. Along with co-authoring last year's Watch the Throne (with Jay-Z) and producing his own iconaclastic LP Yeezus, he's become a dad. (Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images for MTV)
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Carl Thomas - Former Bad Boy crooner Carl Thomas lent his pipes to the track "Hard Times." Following his appearance on Chicken-n-Beer, the R&B star released his last LP, 2004's Let's Talk About It, for Diddy's label before jetting to Bungalo Records and releasing his third album So Much Better. In 2011, after signing to Verve he put out the LP Conquer. (Photo: Courtesy Verve Forcast Records)
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Snoop Dogg - Appropriately, Snoop Dogg dueted with Luda on the cut "Hoes in My Room." Well, Snoop has grown both spiritually and musicallyl since then. Earlier this year, he unveiled his new spiritual kinship with Rastafarianism, growing dreadlocks, rechristening himseld Snoop Lion and releasing his much talked-about reggae LP Reincarnated.
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Chingy - A decade ago, the St. Louis MC played Robin to Luda's Batman. His debut album, Jackpot, released in July2003 was a triple platinum success. Since then, however, Chingy wasn't albe to reach those heights again and has since parted ways with DTP. He was last seen on the VHI reality show, Couple Therapy.(Photo: Maury Phillips/BET/Getty Images)
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2 Chainz - Going by the name Tity Boy, this future hip hop mega-star offered a verse to the LP's callabo cut "We Got" and the song "Eyebrows Down." And the rest is history. Tity B left the rap duo Playaz Circle, changed his Moniker to 2 Chainz, released his gold-selling debut LP Based on a T.R.U. Story and became a hip hop power player. Currently, he's fighting a possession of control substance charge after marijuana was found in his bag at an airport. (Photo: Christopher Polk/Getty Images)
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Juicy J - This Memphis hip hop trailblazer co-produced Chick-N-Beer's "Diamond in the Back" and "We Got." Always known as one third of Three 6 Mafia, Juicy and his cohorts made hip hop history in 2006 when they won an Oscar for the song "It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp." In 2011, Juicy starred in the reality show Famous Food and last year he released his solo LP Stay Trippy. (Photo: John Ricard/BET)
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Shawnna - On the LP, the Chicago-born femcee shared vocals on the tracks "Stand Up" and "P-Poppin." Following her appreance, Shawnna tried to launch her rap career, releasing two LPs, Worth tha Weight (2004) and Block Music (2006). But she only found modest success. But she has been busy on the mixtape circuit releasing her latest, She's Alive, last year. (Photo: Courtesy of Nappy Boy Entertainment)
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