You Rollin’ Funny Ass Jeeps!
UGK – “Top Notch Hoes“
from Trill Azz Mixes (Mixtape, 1999)
MGG has a great post up today about UGK and DJ Wiz’s Trill Azz Mixes. He talks with Bun about the origin of the legendary blend tape and confirms the subliminals Pimp was sending at The Roots on “Top Notch Hoes”:
“Yeah, Pimp was talking about The Roots on his verse. Bygones are bygones now, but yeah, he was talking about them. He thought they were shooting at Too $hort in the video. And you know how close they were. Pimp was always taking up other people’s battles. He never really had any proof that they were dissing him in the video, so when he says that line “I saw your video nigga sound like you dissing my friends” I’d be like exactly! That’s what it “sounds” like, you don’t really know. But Pimp actually liked what The Roots was doing, he always talked about having a live band on stage with him. They probably never knew Pimp was dissing them or ever did, I guess they do now. The only reason he said that was because he thought they were dissing $hort. Pimp just like to say things to get under people’s skin, including mines.”
May 19th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Ha. I was always astonished by how blatantly the Roots bit the “Ego Trippin’ Pt. 2″ video.
And thanks for the tip re: MGG, that is great reading.
May 19th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Man I been tryna find this CD for a minute (on the street)! This came out when UGK was havin label problems wit Jive and hadn’t dropped anything for years. This joint was like water in a drought, lmao.
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May 19th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
That verse from Top Notch Hoes….wasnt that on that cat Meen Green’s album before that, on the track “Deep In the Game”? or am I wrong on that?
May 20th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
“That verse from Top Notch Hoes….wasnt that on that cat Meen Green’s album before that, on the track “Deep In the Game”?”
Yeah. One of the other verses was recycled too, but I don’t remember from where.
May 23rd, 2009 at 9:13 am
FUCK THE ROOTS IF THEY DISSIN THE WEST!!!!!
i love the roots too but for real how u gonna diss the king of rap
noone makes a 7 min song that dont stop rappin with no chorus cept cuzzzwerds!!!
May 25th, 2009 at 1:50 am
Pimp’s verse is from a 3re Tha Hardaway track called…you guessed it..”Top Notch Hoes”
June 5th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Noz,
You really need to write a “serious”, objective, exhaustive, and enlightening biography of the Pimp. It would be a tremendous shame if anyone other than you were to do it, and an even bigger one if it didn’t happen.