Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin” was one of the biggest records of his career and while it featured UGK (Bun B and Pimp C), Pimp C actually had his reservations about getting on the track when he first heard it.

Kendrick Lamar’s new LP “To Pimp a Butterfly” was an instant conversation-shifter in pop music, and set records for debut-day streaming on Spotify. But the record very nearly had a dramatically ...

“Glitter and gleam ain’t all what it look like / So I keep swangin’, out here clangin’ tryna live my life.” — Chad L. Butler, 1996 Everyone who knew Pimp C knew many things about him. That he was a ...

Mythmaking is part of writing a biography. Whatever research you’ve dedicated to certain stories or tall tales, the more the myth grows. In the larger context, any myth about Pimp C may give you a ...

Bun B and Raekwon sit down on Hip-Hop Wired’s latest episode of ‘I Got Questions‘. During this iconic conversation, the two legends spoke about all the history that has brought them to the level they ...

I came late to the UGK party. I was out of the country for much of their rise from 1992-1995, and then I lived in Nashville, where their legend had not yet spread, until the end of 1997. Even after ...

Incarcerated rap star Pimp C is about to be set free. Pimp C, half of the acclaimed Texas duo Underground Kingz, or UGK, will be paroled within 30 days after serving about half of an eight-year ...