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In money-rappers-waste news, Ludacris hit a strip club to spend the amount of dollar bills that could pay the bills for a working-class family for six months.

This week, TMZ got pictures of the ATL rap star making it rain at Atlanta’s famed Diamonds, hanging out girlfriend Eudoxie, rapper Lil’ Scrappy and the singer Monica.

Reports say that Luda spent as much as $10,000 on the evening. No word of how much of that went in the dancing ladies’ g-strings.

How ever much it was, we’re sure it went to worthy life cause.

Earlier in the week, reports surfaced that Straits, the Ludacris-owned Asian/Singaporean fusion restaurant in Atlanta, failed a surprise health inspection.

According to the Georgia State Board of Health, Ludacris scored a 67 out of 100 at the end of January.

The violations included dirty “food contact surfaces,” a lack of “supplied and accessible” “adequate hand-washing facilities,” and dirty “nonfood-contact surfaces.”

But before you write off the popular ATL eatery, Sandra Rose reports that in a follow-up inspection Straits passed the test.

A reader wrote:

Hi Sandra!!! Just wanted to let you know that Straits was re-inspected today and scored a 98 out of 100. Guess someone at the Fulton Co Dept of Health and Wellness must read your blog!!

See, you can breathe again.

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Is there already trouble in paradise for Ludacris and his now ex-medical student girlfriend, Eudoxie?

Rumors are swirling that the two aren’t seeing eye to eye. One reader sent a first-hand account to Bossip – claiming the couple had an exchange while Ludacris was getting ready to perform at Florida Atlantic University’s Freaker’s Ball (don’t ask me why that’s the title, folks).

They said first Luda asked for condoms to be in his dressing room and that caused a rift. Then all hell broke loose once Ludacris went on a tour, found a classmate to uh, converse with, and Eudoxie went off.
Via Bossip:

As soon as she was out of the building Luda went over to one of the girls, who was a student, and started talking to her. She was all giggles. After about 20 minutes of whispering in her hear Luda and the girl went into his dressing room with one of his bodyguards standing in front of the door not letting anyone get too close to the door.

About 10 minutes later Euxonie came back, as I said small school, and she went to the door. By this time EVERYBODY knew that Luda was in the room with the girl, so Euxonie went up to the doors and attempted to bypass the guards, They wouldn’t let her in the room and she was screaming “CHRIS OPEN

THE FU*KING DOOR!!!!” she was banging on the boor. He eventually came out with the girl and she pushed him into the room and she started screaming and everybody and their momma could hear her.

About 20 minutes after the screaming match she stormed out of the room and told one of the bodyguards to take her to the airport. Luda came out the room and one of the bodyguards asked him if he wanted to stop the car and Luda said “Nope, she’ll get over it”. And that was it. A few hours later he put on a great show.

This sounds like a sitcom episode. I’ll leave it at that.

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Have we ever seen Ludacris photographed with a girlfriend before?

I can’t recall so this lady must be doing something right to be pictured booed up with the Disturbing The Peace rapper.

Luda’s been working on a lot of new projects – including a new album, a popular new restaurant, and his own brand of alcohol. Obviously he’s managed to find time to make a new friend.

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No, this isn’t about her natural hair color or the pole.

Amber Rose is going back to her video girls days. Naturally, she would do so for her ex-boyfriend (?), Kanye West.

Amber will be featured in the video for the song, “Robocop,” which oddly enough, is said to include jabs about Kanye’s ex fiance, Alexis Phifer.

On her role in the new video, Amber told MTV News, ”I’m playing a robot through the whole video. Ninety-five percent of the video is just me.”

Well the girl certainly has experience — appearing in videos for both Ludacris and Young Jeezy.

Don’t sleep on Ambi, though. She’s still plotting new career moves. She also revealed to MTV that she has new covers waiting in the wings.

“I have Complex mag, Elle magazine, Persona magazine — I have the cover to the back, the whole issue is dedicated to me. I’m excited about that,” she said of her new upcoming publicity appearances.

Kanye will make you famous!

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“I guarantee it’ll be the No. 1 movie,” insisted Chris “Ludacris” Bridges before an energetic theater of industry friends, fans and filmgoers that came out Thursday evening for the red carpet premiere of his dark shoot-em-up Max Payne. Read the rest of this entry »

Barack Obama must love seeing his mug splashed across the chest of Halle Berry but
he didn’t react positively to Ludacris’ new rap that calls Hillary Clinton
a b%@^*, says John McCain “don’t belong in any chair unless he’s paralyzed” and
insults Jesse Jackson and George W. Bush.

Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton issued a statement, condemning Luda for his,
well ludicrous, lyrics.

“As Barack Obama has said many, many times in the past, rap lyrics today too
often perpetuate misogyny, materialism, and degrading images that he doesn’t
want his daughters or any children exposed to. This song is not only outrageously
offensive to Senator Clinton, Reverend Jackson, Senator McCain, and President Bush,
it is offensive to all of us who are trying to raise our children with the values
we hold dear. While Ludacris is a talented individual he should be ashamed of these
lyrics.”

Yet Luda and other rap stars have the nerve to wonder how come Oprah doesn’t often
have them on her show.

Luda, who encourages blacks to get out and vote in the new rap, and Barack were
cool so what does this do to their relationship? The two met privately in Chicago
and talked about young people back in 2006 before Barack announced his plans to
run for president. He seemed conflicted about Ludacris in his recent cover story
in Rolling Stone, saying,
“I know Jay-Z. I know Ludacris. I know Russell Simmons. I know a bunch of
these guys. They are great talents and great businessmen, which is something that
doesn’t get emphasized enough. It would be nice if I could have my daughters
listen to their music without me worrying that they were getting bad images of themselves.”

In other Barack and celeb news, McCain shows how old and outdated he is by taking
a swipe at Barack in a new TV ad that calls Barack, “the biggest celebrity in the
world” and flashes footage of Barack then Britney Spears then Paris Hilton to give
the impression that Barack is all celebrity and no substance while questioning his
leadership. Uh, couldn’t his ad men have thought of some more current celebs than
these two irrelevant chicks whose time has come and gone?

Luda launched his new web site for unsigned artists – Webmix.com — at The Hiro in NYC. And look who showed? Neyo showed! Who can get it between these two?