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Ludacris’ latest performance was Fergalicious!
The Grammy-winning rapper, 48, delivered a hit-filled set at ONE Musicfest in Atlanta on Sunday, Oct. 26 and surprised the crowd with a rare appearance from Fergie to perform their collaboration “Glamorous,” marking the Black Eyed Peas superstar’s first time on stage in years.
“We Got FERGIE OUT THE F—IN HOUSE! ATLANTA WENT CRAZY! Love to my Sis,” wrote Ludacris, whose real name is Christopher Bridges, alongside footage from the performance on Instagram.
“Loved being able to honor you. Cheers to 25 years,” commented Fergie, 50, whose real name is Stacy Ferguson, celebrating more than two and a half decades of the “How Low” rapper’s career.
During the set, Fergie also performed “London Bridge” with Polow da Don, who produced the chart-topping 2006 hit and provides the iconic repeated “Oh s—” vocal throughout the song.
Fergie’s last major performance of note came in 2018, when she sang “Glamorous” at the MTV Video Music Awards with Jack Harlow, who sampled the track for his own hit, “First Class.”
While the “Clumsy” singer’s last album, Double Dutchess, came out in 2017, she’s inched her way back into the music scene a couple times since then.
In addition to the VMAs performance, she appeared in Sturdyyoungin, Ohthatsmizz and Zeddy Will’s “Trippen” music video earlier this year and later reimagined her own “London Bridge” with a new music video to promote Netflix’s Too Much series.
Fergie — who shares son Axl Jack with ex-husband Josh Duhamel — celebrated her 50th birthday in March and marked the occasion with an emotional letter to her childhood self shared to Instagram.
“Dear little Stacy, one day you’ll be 50 and you’ll be proud of yourself. You won’t have it all figured out, but you realize …. who does? Success really is in the journey, and true happiness can be found in the smallest simple moments,” she wrote alongside a photo of herself as a child.
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Fergie continued, “Keep loving deeply with all your heart, and keep working on yourself. It always all makes sense later. I love you.”
In the post, she also included Billboard’s top women artists of the 21st century list, where she placed at No. 28.
“I added the Billboard chart because I wanted to say THANK YOU. (thank u really tho;) It was a beautiful surprise and really made me feel like my music means something,” she wrote, referencing the lyrics of her hit “Glamorous.”
The final slide features a photo of Axl. “I also could not acknowledge this milestone without including my son Axl Jack, the sweetest love I’ve ever known. You make me want to be a better human every day,” Fergie wrote. “Onward and upward🎂🎂”
