UGK - Underground Kingz
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Free Music Review: UGK!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
More from the Best!. I've loved all there records since the beginning...and this is def. a good one! There is no need to try and pick out which song is your favorite b/c they are all great! Thumbs up the Underground KingZ!Free Music Review: Are we back to rappers predicting their own deaths?
Hit: 4 Stars
The reason why I ask that is because it seems like the only time hot rappers release double albums is when they're about to pass on (Tupac, Biggie, and now Pimp C). At any rate, UGK's album Underground Kingz was pushed back for a while, but I'm glad it finally came out because it's a solid effort.
I'm not exactly sure why they need three versions of "Int'l Players Anthem" on here (one with OutKast and two with Three 6 Mafia), even though they all kick (although I'm not a big fan of screwed-and-chopped). Other notables include "Trill N's Don't Die" and also the interesting "Cocaine", where even Rick Ross drops a nice verse. There's also "Quit Hatin' the South", an otherwise played-out topic with a nice twist, not to mention a nice sample of Latimore's "Let's Straighten It Out".
There are a few too many guest stars on here, though (Bun's album Trill had that same problem); still, posse cuts impress, like "Take tha Hood Back"; and if "Next Up" doesn't get the party started, I don't know what's wrong. But Bun and Pimp also score with serious tracks, like "Shattered Dreams" and "How Can It Last".
Very rarely can you find a double album that doesn't have any mistakes, so there are a few of those on here. I didn't even understand the metaphors in "The Game Belongs to Me", and in the otherwise dope "Two Type of Bitches", Dizzee Rascal spends two minutes at the end doing some annoying talking. Also, while I was wondering what Jazze Pha is doing on a UGK album, his pair of productions ("Tell Me How Ya Feel" and "Stop-n-Go") actually work; but other mainstream tracks fall flat (see the two versions of "Like That").
R.I.P. Pimp C, but it's good that before he passed, he and Bun were able to finally convince heads that they really are the underground kings. Pick it up if you haven't already.
Anthony Rupert
Free Music Review: get it! PimpC r.i.p.
Hit: 4 Stars
Get the CD so you can appreciate the great album pics! Tons of great songs on here. Make me wanna get out there and stay on my grind. That's too bad bout Pimp C. Codeine's a helluva drug seems. But on the real, this is one of the better rap CDs I've heard in a while, from a production stand point.Free Music Review: A-1 Service
Hit: 5 Stars
The condition of the product was exactly as described by the seller and it arrived very quickly. Free Music Review: They did the impossible
Hit: 4 Stars
UGK - Underground Kingz (Jive, 2007)
I remember UGK from their mid-90's classic, "Pocket Full of Stones" but if you don't remember that song, then you surely know them from Jay-Z's "Big Pimpin'" from 1999. What's amazing is how a group can go from being underground and underrated to debuting at #1. But if Three 6 Mafia can win an Oscar, then anything's possible. Speaking of 3-6, they produced the runaway hit, "Int'l Players Anthem" featuring OutKast. (Earlier versions of this album contained the original version feating 3-6 themselves and a chopped-n-screwed version but nothing beats the aforementioned one.)
If you're looking for lyrical complexity, you came to the wrong place but few deliver commonplace gangsta material better than Bun B and Pimp C (R.I.P.). B usually drops the dopest rhymes while Pimp handles most of the production as well as rhymes. There are guest stars aplenty but the collaborations never sound force nor the album sounding overcrowded. And while there may be minor flaws present (Pimp C says, "Rolling stones like Mick Jagger" more than once, the original version of "Like That" is wack and all those versions of "Int'l Players Anthem" aren't needed), UGK did what other rappers couldn't do: deliver a hip-hop double album that doesn't require much fast-forwarding. It's good that Pimp C enjoyed some of that success before he died. -EJR