Wire Talk: Ludacris Searching For New Unsigned MC’s

According to XXL Magazine, Ludacris is looking for unsigned MC’s to guest on “Undisputed”. This might be your chance to shine. You could end up on a track with Ludacris.The Atlanta MC has just launched (11/05) “The Undisputed Open Mic Throwdown,” a nationwide MC Competition via his new social networking web site wemix.com. Competing MCs will get the chance to land a guest verse on the official remix to “Undisputed,” Ludacris’ first single off his forthcoming Theater Of The Mind.

Each contestants must record a 16-Bar verse to enter the competition. Ludacris will handpick five finalists while the prize winner will be selected by the wemix.com community. The winner will be revealed in early December.

“I just want artists to be themselves and try not to sound how they think I want them to on the track,” Ludacris said in a statement. “Just be natural and deliver your absolute best.”

The winner will also take home a Sony Acid Pro 7 music production software package with 10 loop packs. The runners-up will receive the Sony Acid Music Studio package with one loop pack.

Ludacris’ Theater Of The Mind is set to hit stores November 25th.

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Exclusive!: Kat Von D. Gets Personal with Latina Magazine

The star of LA Ink, Kat Von D. gets up close and personal with Latina Magazine on overcoming her addiction, and a painful past. Check out her interview below.

In just a few short years, LA Ink’s Kat Von D has catapulted from an average LA tattoo artist into an icon, a brand unto herself, and a true badass in every sense of the word. But behind the blood-red lipstick, the piercings and the body art, we discovered a soft-spoken girl ready to shed her skin as a consummate bad girl and reinvent herself as a strong young woman in love. In the November issue of Latina, Kat riffs on the power of self expression, the memories of her troubled past and how she turned a love of body art into real world success and stardom.

On getting over alcohol abuse and the pain in her past:
“For a long time I felt like there’s no God, there’s no karma. Meeting Nikki (boyfriend, Motley Crue’s Nikki Six) was an eye-opener. He helped restore my faith in general. I’ve taken an oath to be honest and open with my life.”

On her drinking problem, a result of a divorce that was chronicled during L.A. Ink’s first season:
“I found myself drinking in the daytime, and that’s when I realized that it was for function versus fun. I was gaining weight. I was hung over all the time. I couldn’t remember anything. But I always had a rule: If anything ever got in the way of my art, then I would delete that. One day I woke up and said, ‘I don’t wanna drink anymore.’”

On embracing her life as a tattoo artist:
“It took a decade and a TV show, but now my parents realize what I do. For a long time they just thought I hung out with bikers and drug addicts. But tattooing was a lifestyle for me. It was a form of self-expression. When I started, I didn’t even know it could be a job. Now I’m constantly feeling honored that someone wants me to permanently mark them for the rest of their life.”

On her Latin roots:
“Most people don’t even think I’m Latin,” she says. “They just think I’m a white girl. But I don’t consider myself Mexican. I don’t consider myself Argentinean. I’m definitely not Caucasian. I just consider myself Latina. And without sounding sentimental, it’s a big f–king honor. People don’t realize how much my heritage contributes to my art.”

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