Bun B has revealed that UGK turned down doing a sequel to “Massive Pimpin’” with JAY-Z.
Showing on Math Hoffa’s My Skilled Opinion present alongside Statik Selektah, with whom he just lately launched the album TrillStatik 3, the Texas rap legend defined that his and Pimp C‘s label, Jive Information, needed them to do a “Massive Pimpin’ 2,” however they rejected the request attributable to each inventive and monetary causes.
“UGK was Pimp’s child and he would put his coronary heart and soul into it,” Bun stated. “And he didn’t wanna do all of that to get thus far and do one music with any individual and have his legacy perverted. That was the way in which he checked out it.”
He added: “Once we had been on the point of do the subsequent album [2001’s Dirty Money], the label, Jive, was like, ‘Let’s do a ‘Massive Pimpin’ 2.’ Let’s purchase a JAY-Z verse, let’s purchase a beat from Timabaland, let’s get a video from Hype [Williams] and let’s do it once more, boys!’”
After revealing that UGK had been “$2.5 million within the gap” to their label at that time, Bun questioned whether or not one other big-budget collaboration was economically attainable.
“I used to be like, ‘If I don’t do a music with JAY-Z and Timbaland, do I nonetheless get a Hype Williams video?’” he remembers asking. “It was by no means, ‘No.’ They had been like, ‘Why wouldn’t you need that?’ What? Apart from being $2.5 million within the gap from the primary music we recorded?”
When requested if a song-for-song swap deal was ever on the desk, Bun stated he thinks Pimp C wouldn’t have seen a JAY-Z verse as “equal worth to him.”
The Port Arthur native additionally just lately revealed that the late Pimp C initially didn’t need to do the unique “Massive Pimpin’” with JAY-Z out of respect for 2Pac.
Recalling the time they had been approached to do the music, Bun B stated on The Steven Sulley Examine podcast: “JAY-Z had been launched to UGK by an enormous DJ in New York named Clark Kent. And he’s like, ‘I like these guys, I wanna work with them.’
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“And Pimp C didn’t need to fuck with folks that 2Pac didn’t fuck with, as a result of he thought 2Pac was the most effective decide of character.”
He continued: “When that first name got here from JAY-Z, we had been on the home in Atlanta, and [Pimp C] regarded up on the wall. And he simply stared on the image. And I’m like, ‘What are you doing?’
“And he stated, ‘I’m pondering what would 2Pac do proper now? And 2Pac wouldn’t need me to fuck with him.’ That’s why I stated, I’m not coming to New York.”
“Massive Pimpin’” finally got here collectively after Jay and Pimp settled their variations over dinner. Taken from the previous’s 1999 album Vol. 3… Life and Instances of S. Carter, the music cracked the highest 20 of the Billboard Scorching 100 and stays one in all each JAY-Z and UGK’s largest hits.
