This casting is literally Ludacris.
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Ludacris will join Kelly Rowland, Marisa Tomei, Oprah, and others on Empire’s second season, the rapper announced today. According to his Instagram, he’ll apparently be playing a correctional officer alongside Terrence Howard’s newly incarcerated Lucious Lyon. Ludacris, of course, fought Howard in not one but two films released in 2005 (Crash and Hustle and Flow) — will Lee Daniels be paying tribute to that vaunted cinematic moment by putting the two men in a tenth-anniversary jailhouse scuffle?