its a reason why he did all that other shyt..
I was aware of him being afraid of the song but never knew about the other shyt
ugk didnt see a dime from the track..nor got a plaque for it
Did Jay-z elevate UGKs fame by Putting them on big pimpin
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ugk didnt see a dime from the track..nor got a plaque for it
Facts Bun B said this on Combat Jack. Other stuff I don't know how accurate it is. Especially the Gloria Velez shyt, when she was rented out to rappers all the type, so everyone fukked her. That doesn't seem like it would be a big deal.funny thing is that Pimp C dragged his feet to make the track
Right from the start, Pimp hated the beat. Dude also didn't really fukk Hov like that and He felt like UGK was selling out.
Read it in his Biography.
Supposedly, that's how Pimp saw it.
But, of course, Pimp is about the as unreliable as it gets for these sort of things.
C's a legend but dude was legit crazy.
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No . . because to everybody outside of the south at the time . . I'm talking mainstream rap fans that weren't as tuned in as we are today it was like Jay Z featured some super gutter rappers. That's probably not the best way to describe it but perhaps one of you gets what I'm saying and can reiterate it in better terms
Now for terms you can understand
Did Justin Bieber elevate Nas's status by featuring him on the new album? . . (some of you are
at anything to do with connecting concepts so I'll give you an example now)
Does 16 year old Cindy from Pacific Heights know who Nas is because he was featured on that album? She might recognize the name from now on whenever she sees it (if she even looked at the tracklisting) but is she as inquisitive enough to go research and look into him?
There's your answer
/end thread
Now for terms you can understand
Did Justin Bieber elevate Nas's status by featuring him on the new album? . . (some of you are
at anything to do with connecting concepts so I'll give you an example now) Does 16 year old Cindy from Pacific Heights know who Nas is because he was featured on that album? She might recognize the name from now on whenever she sees it (if she even looked at the tracklisting) but is she as inquisitive enough to go research and look into him?
There's your answer
/end thread
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Never knew who pimp c was before that track but I thought he did his thing.
Let's be real, he did all that other shyt because Pimp was Pimp.
UGK had no realistic expections of getting any publishing.
But Pimp did feel some type of way about not getting that plaque.
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Jimmy the gent
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Definite, hardly known up top b4 that, no?
Money ain't a thing and Ha remix pushed Jay in the south, not Big Pimpin? I mean of course Big Pimpin did but was it really due to Ugk, though. UGK were not moving units, had zero hits and on. Big Pimpin probably introduced them to more people in the south than their own shyt had done.
Juve was however bigger than Jay-z in the other half of the country (the south) and his album was nearly as big as Jay-z's biggest album. And Money ain't a thing was Jd's track from an album that had other bangers in the south + he was a super producer.
Juve was however bigger than Jay-z in the other half of the country (the south) and his album was nearly as big as Jay-z's biggest album. And Money ain't a thing was Jd's track from an album that had other bangers in the south + he was a super producer.
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UGK moved more units BEFORE "Big Pimpin'" than they did after. Ridin' Dirty went Gold without airplay. This was three years before they were featured on a Jay Z album. They were also staples on several No Limit releases notably Master P's biggest albums which were multi-platinum releases.
Did it really go gold? This is the same time Jay-z went gold without being known outside of his city. It was a classic album too, while DM was
, I don't remember this but it was probably badly promoted. If DM was as dope as Ridin Dirty, it would probably have moved some units as well.
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Bruh, you just wrote a bunch of nonsense. UGK was huuuge down south before jay. Niuggaz didn't fukk with jay on the strength of Ha. Nor money ain't a thing. You act like after those two songs everybody in the south start fukking with Jay. Nope.
What is huge? One gold album and disappearing for 6 years until Big Pimpin? Teach me about huge, Juvenile was huge, No Limit were huge, Outkast were huge, Scarface and on. UGK? I don't know.
I don't know when everyone started fukking with Jay in a region of like 150 million people that spans from just south of NY to just east of Cali. I'll assume that it didn't happen overnight, my assumption is that those two joints from 98 introduced him to hiphop stations in the south and made people buy his album. That took place in the same time as Jay sold 5-6 million copies and was all over MTV too. The year after he has sold out tours in multiple southern cities.
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