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Exclusive interview with multi-platinum rapper Chamillionaire. Cham talks about he got into the Rap game, and the success of his song Riding Dirty. The interview also features Play n Skillz, the producers of the grammy-winning song.
Texas rapper and UGK front man, Chad “Pimp C” Butler, was laid to rest December 13, 2007 in his home town of Port Arthur, Texas.
Family and friends left the Civic Center around 1 p.m. to attend a private burial at Greenlawn Memorial Park in Port Arthur.
HipHopSodaShop and Hip Hop Grub Spot, two separately owned unaffiliated ventures open for business; each aim to provide food, in-store video gaming, entertainment and merchandise with a hip hop twist. HipHopSodaShop is led by Dr. Benjamin Chavis. Hip Hop Grub Spot is backed by Frank Gore and Rick Ross.
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Its a sad day in the world that half of UGK is not gone. No more official UGK music though we havn’t had a huge amount or a major released cd since PiMP C was released from prison. Now he is in a better place so lets take a moment to remember him and his great style of southern country rap tunes. Ya herd?read more | digg story
Indie Hip-Hop site HoodHype.com was featured in the latest edition of the IndieBible. Another spot for underground hip-hop!read more | digg story
Cosmo loves Hip Hop.read more | digg story
If this wasn’t the worst ever year for popular music, then there’s some other year that I probably lived through and feel painfully sorry for in retrospect. Here, though, we present ten separate case studies as evidence that our mass culture music is sinking deeper and deeper into a panoply of stinky sh*tread more | digg story
Sources are telling Billboard that Amazon and Pepsi will team up to give away 1 billion MP3s for free in 2008, starting with a Superbowl kick off in February
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Pimp C, who was found on dead Tuesday (December 4), and his loyal UGK partner Bun B reached their highest peak in 2007 as far as mainstream love was concerned. The Port Arthur, Texas, natives’ latest album, Underground Kingz, debuted at #1 on the Billboard albums chart, they were voted into the top 10 of MTV News’ Greatest Hip-Hop Groups of All Time, and their single “Int’l Players Anthem” was easily their most successful song. It was the culmination, and you could say coronation, of years of respect from their peers and the press for gritty verses and enduring opuses.
Pimp (real name: Chad Butler), who produced much of the group’s catalog, was the eye-catcher of the duo because of his flashy ways. Minks, diamonds, grills and Bentleys were the minimum for him. But despite all of their influence, respect and success, UGK rose up from the underground and often resisted mainstream compromise.
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