Bun B has reacted to André 3000’s look on The Late Present with Steven Colbert, throughout which 3 Stacks cited UGK as considered one of his largest influences.
In an Instagram clip posted on Wednesday (January 24), the Texas rap legend wrote: “While you notice the people who encourage you’re feeling the identical about you, the exhausting work has certainly paid off. Salute my brother @andre3000.”
The video, which may be considered in full beneath, finds André reflecting on the artists that impressed him rising up, itemizing UGK in addition to 8Ball & MJG, George Clinton, Sly Stone, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Odd Squad and Kraftwerk.
Andre’s OutKast groupmate Large Boi commented on Bun’s put up: “Information,” whereas fellow Texas native Yella Beezy wrote: “Yall impressed the WORLD Unk cease performing so modest !!! Cracc yo shit YALL PAVED THE WAY for us.”
The connection between OutKast and Bun B’s traditional group with the departed Pimp C runs deep. In 2020, Juicy J revealed that Three 6 Mafia had been initially presupposed to be featured on UGK’s “Int’l Gamers Anthem (I Select You)” as an alternative of André 3000 and Large Boi.
In an interview with HipHopDX, the Memphis O.G. stated he and DJ Paul (who collectively produced the track) had truly staked their declare to the visitor verse duties first, however the label outmoded their efforts. Actually, he stated he felt “loopy” when he first heard André’s iconic verse.
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“I used to be like, ‘God dang!’ as a result of, see, what was loopy, me and Paul did a verse on it at first,” he defined. “And the label — we didn’t even discover this, we shifting round. The label had denied the clearance. I used to be like, ‘What the fuck? Why y’all didn’t let me know?’ Man, I used to be able to go up there and fucking trigger hell at that label. I used to be like, ‘Who would authorize one thing dumb like that?’”
Motivated by his frustrations, Juicy did some digging to search out out what truly occurred to the rhymes that he laid over the beat and was “so fucking mad” when he discovered.
“So then they put OutKast on it and I didn’t even know,” he recalled with fun. “I used to be like, ‘What occurred to our verses?’ [UGK] had been like, ‘Man, they didn’t clear y’all so we put OutKast on it.’ I used to be like, ‘Fuck! Put our verses again on it!’
“André 3000 and muthafuckin’ Large Boi. Legendary. I referred to as that label — I ain’t even going to inform y’all of the shit I stated. I used to be so fucking mad.”
