Calling all Luda fans! The first single off the Ludacris and Shawnna collaboration has just dropped. The album, The Battle of the Sexes has been in the works for three years but still lacks a release date. The album is based on the premise of showing differing gender perspectives, though on the first couple of listens this doesn’t present in the single How Low Can You Go, at all. The song is exactly what Ludacris fans have been waiting for. It’s is catchy and just a little bit annoying, the way every good Luda hit has always been. It brings back memories of What’s Your Fantasy, a song that Shawnna also lent her voice to.

How Low Can You Go will be all over the radio and pumping through the clubs so you better learn to love it now. Although Ludacris and Shawnna don’t take the song or the genre anywhere new, they stick to what they know and it works. If you’re looking for light club fare to get your body moving in spite of itself then this single is for you. Those of us who like our hip hop heavier or with less clichéd hooks might want to avoid this single and the radio for the next couple of months because if the past is anything to go by then Luda has another hit on his hands.

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