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Area Codes by Ludacris

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Ludacris

Area Codes

Release date: 2001

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Released as the first single from Ludacris's third album 'Word of Mouf' in 2001, 'Area Codes' features Nate Dogg on the chorus and originally appeared on the Rush Hour 2 soundtrack. The track builds its premise around U.S. telephone area codes as shorthand for a coast-to-coast catalogue of casual encounters, each three-digit sequence standing in for a different city and a different liaison. Ludacris rattles through the geography with a grin, name-checking Atlanta's 404 and 770, New York's 212, Miami's 305, and a dozen more, the boasts delivered with the same cartoonish swagger that defined much of his early work. Nate Dogg anchors the hook with his signature baritone, turning the central refrain into something close to a singalong despite the subject matter. The production leans on a minimal, bass-heavy groove that lets the wordplay do the work, and the song's humorous take on the concept of maintaining connections across multiple cities became a calling card for Ludacris's brand of irreverent, punchline-heavy rap.

"Area Codes" is a single by Ludacris, released 2001. Full lyrics are available below.

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Ludacris

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Lyrics

Area Codes

I've got hoes
I've got hoes
In different area codes (area), area codes (codes)
Hoes, hoes
Hoes
In different area codes (area), area codes (codes)

Now you thought I was just 7-7-0 and 4-0-4?
I'm worldwide, bitch act like y'all know
It's the abominable hoe man
Globe-trot international post man, neighbor-dick dope man
7-1-8's, 2-0-2's, I send small cities and states I-O-U's
9-0-1, matter fact 3-0-5, I'll jump off the G4, we can meet outside

So control your hormones and keep your drawers on
'Til I close the door and I'm jumpin' your bones
3-1-2's, 3-1-3's, 2-1-5's, 8-0-tree's
Read your horoscope and eat some horderves
Ten on pump one, these hoes is self serve
7-5-7, 4-1-0's, my cell phone just overloads

I've got hoes
I've got hoes
In different area codes (area), area codes (codes)
Hoes, hoes
Hoes
In different area codes (area), area codes (codes)
I've got hoes

Now every day is a hoe-ly day, so stop the violence
And put the 4-4 away, skeet shoot a hoe today
5-0-4, 9-7-2's, 7-1-tree, what you gon' do?
You checkin' out the scene, I'm checkin' a hoe tonight
With perpendicular, vehicular hoe-micide
3-1-4, 2-0-1, too much green, too much fun

I bang cock in Bangkok, can't stop, I turn and hit the same spot
Think not, I'm the thriller in Manilla
Schlong in Hong Kong, pimp 'em like Bishop, Magic, Don Juan
Man after Henny with a coke and a smile
I just pick up the motherfuckin' phone and dial
I got my condoms in a big ass sack
I'm slangin' this dick like a New Jack (biatch)

Is it 'cause they like my gangsta walk? (Gangsta walk)
Is it 'cause they like my gangsta talk? (Gangsta talk, ooh)
Is it 'cause they like my handsome face? (Handsome face)
Is it 'cause they like my gangsta ways? (Gangsta way, ohh)

Whatever it is, they love it, and they just won't let me be
I handles my biz, don't rush me, just relax and let me be free
Whenever I call (I call), come runnin' 2-1-2 or 2-1-3
You know that I ball (I ball), stop frontin' or I'll call my substitute freak

I've got hoes
I've got hoes
In different area codes (area), area codes (codes)
Hoes, hoes
Hoes
In different area codes (area), area codes (codes)
I've got hoes

Uh, 9-1-6, 4-1-5, 7-0-4, shout out to the 2-0-6
Everybody in the 8-0-8, ha-ah, 2-1-6, 7-0-2, 4-1-4
3-1-7, 2-1-4's and the 2-8-1's, 3-3-4, 2-0-5, I see ya
Uh-uh, 3-1-8, 6-0-1's, 2-0-tree, 8-0-4, 4-0-2, 3-0-1
9-0-4, 4-0-7, 8-5-0, 7-0-8, 5-0-2

Hoes in different area codes, know that
Southern Hoes-pitality, Northern Exhoes-ure
Ha-ha, hoe ridin' on the West coast
Ya understand what I'm sayin'?
Ho-cus pocus, you the dopest
Hoes to the right, hoes to the left, five hoes this time

Woo! Ho no!
This Hip-hop hoe-ller-coaster, that's what we on right now
Ha-ha, no need to get all hoe-stile, yeah, woo!
Def Jam South baby, Disturbing Tha Peace
Jazze Pheezy, Uncle Face
Ludacris, uh, hoes
I'm sweating like a motherf-

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Area Codes

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    Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Billy Nichols (Soul), Jazze Pha, Ludacris, Nate Dogg
    Producer
    Jazze Pha
    Additional Vocals
    Jazze Pha
    Mixing Engineer
    Ken “Duro” Ifill
    Recording Engineer
    Arnold “AJ” Wolfe
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