Bun B has revealed that he doesn’t really feel it’s essentially a foul factor that extra followers don’t know that JAY-Z‘s “99 Issues” options strains from considered one of his verses.
Whereas showing as a visitor on the Individuals’s Occasion With Talib Kweli, the Houston OG was requested whether or not he felt like numerous followers don’t know the origins of the primary 4 strains of Hov’s third verse on the hit single, which appeared on 2003’s The Black Album.
The verse hears JAY-Z quoting Bun straight, rapping “Now, as soon as upon a time not too way back/ A n-gga like myself needed to strong-arm a ho/ Now, this was not a ho within the sense of getting a pussy/ However a pussy having no goddamn sense, tryna push me.” The strains first appeared on the tune “Touched,” from UGK’s seminal album Ridin’ Soiled.
“I really feel like sufficient individuals know,” Bun B responded. “However I don’t really feel prefer it’s that massive of a deal. I might name it mutual respect. We do that loads in Hip Hop, proper? The place now we have artists who’ve stated, ‘Fuck that was dope, the way in which he stated that.’ And typically you wanna pay homage to that wordplay. What number of songs, Kweli, have you ever listened to and been like, ‘I woulda rhymed that final half like this.’”
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“And I feel that’s what occurs,” Bun B continued. “I feel you’re feeling like, ‘It is a dope rhyme, I don’t suppose sufficient individuals heard this shit. I’m finna drop this shit in right here.’ Typically you are taking a dope rhyme and make it a hook, after which individuals gotta return and determine it out. However nah, I don’t suppose lots of people know that. I don’t suppose it’s a giant deal that they don’t know. Or a giant deal in the event that they do.”
Followers first realized of the connection between JAY-Z and Bun B by way of UGK’s well-known look on the Vol. 3… Life and Instances of S. Carter single “Large Pimpin’” in 1999. Within the 12 months since Pimp C‘s loss of life, Bun has shared a number of behind-the-scenes anecdotes concerning the hit single, together with the truth that the collaboration got here near not taking place in any respect.
Throughout a 2022 look on The Steven Sulley Research podcast, Bun B shared that his late rhyme associate was initially in opposition to the concept of UGK showing on the 2000 single out of respect for 2Pac.
“So, 2Pac was not a JAY-Z fan, that is very well-known,” the Trill Burgers founder stated. “JAY-Z had been launched to UGK by a giant DJ in New York named Clark Kent. And he’s like, ‘I like these guys, I wanna work with them. And Pimp C didn’t need to fuck with folks that 2Pac didn’t fuck with, as a result of he thought 2Pac was one of the best choose of character.”
The late Port Arthur legend weighed all of this up when JAY-Z reached out to request UGK’s involvement on what could be one of the best performing single from his fourth studio album, Vol. 3… Life and Instances of S. Carter.
“When that first name got here from JAY-Z, we have 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.”
The tune would find yourself changing into an enormous success, peaking at No. 18 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 songs chart and topping the Rhythmic Prime 40 chart, thus serving to propel JAY-Z’s fourth studio album to triple platinum standing.
Mockingly, “Large Pimpin’” stays UGK’s finest performing single – each as lead and featured artists – and the one tune of theirs to crack the highest 20 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 charts.
