How Big will the Bun B album Be?
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I think hes got a good amount of hype built up, and he's gotta pull some favors off of all those features. Rap-a-lot is distributed by warner/asylum now and I think hes gonna get adequate promotion for once. In any case, im pretty sure it will be rediculously good. Heres one song that I found on the net. Bun B featuring Pimp C, Young Jeezy, and Jay -Z!!! Sorry its such a crappy kay-slay version, but even still its pretty 
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Is this actually coming out tomorrow?
I think you're right.
Hipster hype/blogosphere chattering does not = sales
I have yet to hear "Draped Up" on the radio up here or down in ATL when I was there last month.
Plus Rap-A-Lot seems to find ways to screw up everything.
I'm gonna have to disagree on that melt-face tip. Shit is pretty
this album is amazing though
"Trill"
(Rap-A-Lot/Asylum)
Before Jay-Z or OutKast, before Tupac Shakur or the Notorious B.I.G., a Texas duo named UGK released an album called "Too Hard to Swallow." Bun B and Pimp C, the two members of UGK, came from Port Arthur, in the southeast corner of Texas, a city that hardly seemed like a hip-hop hotbed. (It had, however, already produced one rock star: Janis Joplin.)
But that was 1992. In the years since, UGK became a vital part of Houston's hip-hop scene and eventually one of the most revered hip-hop acts in the South, though never one of the most successful, even though the duo rhymed alongside Jay-Z on his hit single "Big Pimpin'." Now that Houston hip-hop is enjoying its year in the limelight, the members of UGK finally have a chance to cash in.
Well, one of them. Pimp C has been in jail since 2002, convicted of aggravated assault. But his loyal partner has kept busy with guest verses and mixtapes; he has also turned "Free Pimp C!" into a hip-hop catchphrase. And now, after years of anticipation, he is making his solo debut with "Trill," a solid and sometimes great album.
Like lots of Southern rappers, Bun B has a way with vowels: when he says, "man," you can hear all five of them (and sometimes y). He has a way with meter, too. He likes to deliver a steady barrage of words while shifting the stress patterns, so that the syllables come out in unpredictable clumps of twos and threes. Armed with this tough but agile style, he delivers handsomely constructed rhymes about sex and drugs and violence, sounding by turns gleeful, mournful and ominously indifferent: "When that front door crash/ And you see dem soldiers/ When the gun go blast/ Don't say that Bun ain't told ya."
For this CD, Bun B has turned his towering hip-hop reputation into an impressive guest list that includes Jay-Z, Ludacris, T.I., Mannie Fresh, Young Jeezy, Juvenile and Jazze Pha, alongside half the city of Houston. The album's rather straightforward first single, "Draped Up," hasn't yet set radio afire, but a handful of the tracks here seem like potential hits, including a rowdy strip-club anthem called "Git It," featuring the Ying Yang Twins and produced by Collipark. As Bun B would probably be the first to admit, there are times when Pimp C's slick rhymes and slicker beats are sorely missed; this album doesn't rival UGK's sublime 1996 album, "Ridin' Dirty." And the final track, a collaboration with the celebrity punk drummer Travis Barker, is anticlimactic, to say the least. But the remix of "Draped Up" is an impressive achievement; it's a whirlwind tour through Houston's current scene, including just about all of the leading rappers.
There's something sweet about hearing an eager Texas kid with rhymes about "a pocket full of stones" (the kind you sell to skinny, twitchy customers) grow into a beloved - even lovable - veteran. KELEFA SANNEH
Bun B= Highly Irrelevant.
I see/hear more about that turd-burger "danger doom".
skinhead rob
This has a lot more to do with the circles you move in than it does with the overall number of people talking about either album.
Yup, the Cartoon network has a better promotions dept. than most rap labels. Haha. Ugh.
I don't see why Bun B is irrelevent though.
ha, you fuck-wad. Naw man, well maybe. SF is pretty fucking corny/has bad taste in rap music. Naw but I saw ads all over the internets and it reviewed in a grip of magazines.
They'll occasionally throw Bun-B in during a mixshow (Usually "I ain't heard of that"-The Jay-Z version sons it...yeah I said it.)
I thought for a minute the article was about
I was joking. That whole "relevant/irrelevant" shit is a running joke I like to use. I think Faux used to throw that term around a lot when discussing such criminally slept on groups like "Y'all So Stupid" and "Madkap".
But yo, I have the feeling once the frenzy dies down artistes like Bun and Keek with be deemed "has beens" and all the cornballs will be onto the "next trend".
Again, this has more to do with the magazines you read than anything else:
"I'll take the latest issue of URB and two day-glo pacifiers, please"
Bun B is a legend.
Only lesser artists become "has beens"... legends just fade into legendary status, where instead of condemning them for the weakness of their new work, people just choose to ignore the sh!t and remember them for what they were.
This is all hypothatical, of course, since I don't think Bun B is anywhere close to falling off, and this album will probably do the same numebrs as most UGK albums have done.
true. Bun B seems to be a legend in the TX/South. I'm talking about he'll be a "has been" to the dudes who got into him in the past year. They're could be literally buying drapes, wearing them around town and thinking "hey, I'm draped up".
Same goes for Mac Mall. All the little dudes with the "thizz in peace" bumper sticker will be on some "dude, it was just a phase in my life....turn up the 'Yo Lo Tengo'".
Tepid.
Just because I ain't read Virginia Woolf in a long time don't mean The Waves was a phase in my life. Shit is, was, and will be epic
J Prince is on his way to your house right now.
He has " Many rivers/Ocean To Cross " before he can get at me.
oh well, thanks for voicing you opinions.
i don't know how big this album will be, but this song is wicked! would i get up out of my seat for this? yes. would i ask the driver to please turn that shit up if it came on the radio? yes. (unless it was my mom and then i would say that song and not that shit). would it make me dance in my underwear in public? no.
bun's album sucks though and i'll just have to wait patiently for the imaginary UGK reunion album