Ugk Greatest Hits Album Download

Best of UGK is a compilation album by American hip hop duo UGK. Track listing. Download Bun B – Greatest Hits (Album) Loading. Name: Bun B (UGK) – Greatest Hits Genre: Rap Hip-Hop Year: 2018 Label: Rap-A-Lot Records.

A quick note: This isn't by any means a definitive Pimp C playlist. Over on the, Noz is doing an amazing job unearthing all manner of Pimp-related rarities, and you owe it to yourself to dig a little deeper and check it out. Solomon Burke: 'Got to Get You Off of My Mind.' Pimp grew up steeped in music, particularly Southern soul music. His father was a trumpet player for Burke, among others. In, Pimp talked about being a kid and playing around with his father's jukebox and piano, singing in his choir, and playing trumpet in his school band.

There's a great moment in the interview where Pimp talks about something his stepfather, who was also Pimp's music teacher, told him when he first started producing rap records: 'Put some music in that shit, you know you know how to read music. Put some goddamn melody in that shit and maybe you can get some money.' Pimp took that suggestion and ran with it. In the early 90s, a few other producers were playing around with live instruments and warmer, expansive tones: Dr. Dre, DJ Slip and the Unknown DJ, the Rap-A-Lot stable of house producers, a few others.

But Pimp's tracks sounded even fuller and more layered than those guys' work. And rather than just looping up his tracks, Pimp kept new elements fading in and out for his tracks' entire running time. Consider, for example, the piano that noses around the corners of 'It's Supposed to Bubble,' never settling into one basic figure, or the murmuring blues-guitar curls buried in 'Diamonds and Wood.' Pimp's beats could be intense and vicious, but even then they always subtly mutated and evolved.

He was a musician first. UGK: 'Feel Like I'm the One Who's Doin' Dope' One of the weird things about really early UGK is that at the beginning, Pimp was pretty much just as good a rapper as Bun. There's something vaguely awkward and tentative about Bun's delivery early on, at least compared to the insanely on-beat authoritative preacher's rumble he'd develop soon enough. Pimp, meanwhile, arrived more or less fully formed, sinking his distinctive nasal drawl deep into his beats, stretching out his syllables in a mocking singsong and displaying a serious eye for lyrical detail.

This song, from UGK's 1992 Jive debut Too Hard to Swallow, is a Pimp solo showcase, and it follows the same basic narrative template as the Geto Boys' 'Mind Playin' Tricks on Me': Pimp paranoid and hallucinating, not sure he can trust himself. The twist is that here he's a crack dealer who keeps feeling the effects of the drug he's doing even though he's pretty sure he's not actually smoking the stuff.

(He also kills a whole lot of people in various fucked-up ways.) Pimp also gives himself a triumphant ending: he wakes up and realizes that he's been dreaming the whole time. If that dream is a symptom of a guilty conscience, Pimp doesn't show it; the laugh he lets out when he realizes he's OK is awesome. This beat on this song is just amazing: evil rumbling electro-bass, gasping ethereal 'Moments in Love' keyboards, synthetic horns, slow-rolling triggered drums. Pimp was like 18 when he put this thing together, and that's just scary. UGK: 'I Left It Wet for You'. Pimp's production sound was so warm and intuitive that even a song like this one, all graphic unsettling death-threats, works as total comfort-food music, its lazily dangling blues guitars and heavy walking bassline mashing on all sorts of pleasure-centers. Pimp and Bun have a great chemistry here, like two kids trying to outdo each other, seeing who could come up with the most withering put-downs without cracking a smile.

I love Pimp's theatrically evil whispering on the hook. Super Tight, the duo's 1994 album, might not be its definitive masterpiece, but these days I probably spend more time listening to it than I do to Ridin' Dirty.

It's smoother and breezier, and it hasn't aged a day in 13 years. Big Mike: 'Havin' Thangs' Pimp never did a whole lot of outside production, at least not when UGK wasn't actually guesting on the track. But when he did take those outside jobs, he didn't phone it in., Noz has a whole bunch of tracks Pimp produced for his peers, and there's not a dud among them.

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Pimp's biggest non-UGK production is probably 'Havin' Thangs,' which he did for former Convict and one-time Geto Boy fill-in Big Mike. 'Havin' Thangs' is a slow, lilting lope of a track, its guitar curlicues and organ swells and G-funk synths an exquisite bed for Mike's bruiser drawl. And the hook Pimp sings is a truly badass bit of insinuating Southern soul. (Like a lot of Rap-A-Lot classics, this song is only available on iTunes in screwed-and-chopped form; don't ask me why.