| Product Summary | | Label: JIVE RECORDS/SBME | | UPC: 00886972696621 | | Release Date: 3/31/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 210242071 | | Item#: M4HNLU | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Intro ~ UGK |  | | 2. Still On The Grind - (featuring Raheem DeVaughn) ~ UGK | | | 3. Everybody Wanna Ball ~ UGK | | | 4. Feelin' You ~ UGK | | | 5. Pimp & The Bun, The - (featuring Ron Isley) ~ UGK | | | 6. She Luv It ~ UGK | | | 7. 7th Street Interlude ~ UGK | | | 8. Swishas & Erb - (featuring Sleepy Brown) ~ UGK | | | 9. Purse Come First - (featuring Big Gipp) ~ UGK | | | 10. Harry A**Hole - (featuring Lil' Boosie/Webbie) ~ UGK | | | 11. Used To Be - (featuring E-40/8Ball/MJG/B-Legit/8Ball & MJG) ~ UGK | | | 12. Steal Your Mind - (featuring Snoop Dogg/Too $hort) ~ UGK | | | 13. Texas Ave. Interlude ~ UGK | | | 14. Hard As Hell - (featuring Akon) ~ UGK | | | 15. Da Game Been Good To Me ~ UGK | | | 16. Outro ~ UGK | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Audio Mixer: Mike Dean . | | A unique memorial to Pimp C, who died in December 2007, UGK 4 LIFE doesn't smother the duo's swan song in posthumous sentiment. (There's a foreboding proclamation from Pimp C during the intro that he and Bun B are "back from the dead.") But from there, his surviving partner and production team let the music--and familiar themes of sex and other forms of indulgent relaxation--take center stage. Apart from inviting a revaluation of the late rapper's underrated soulfulness, 4 LIFE serves as a testament to UGK's trademark smoothness, which, on their final collaboration, evokes what the Ohio Players might sound like if they were updated for the hip-hop generation. | | Five months before Pimp C died, it seemed UGK emptied the vaults with their two-CD Underground Kingz release, but UGK 4 Life proves the group was on the creative upswing right up to their unfortunate end. Feeling planned and fully formed rather than cobbled together, the album is filled with the usual high-quality hooks, the same stone-cold bravado, and the Pimp's always amusing, highly developed love of sleaze. Highlights include the furious "Still on the Grind" which looks towards a blinged-out future that would never be, plus the slithering "Everybody Wanna Ball" which brings fine reminders of the group's classic "Pocket Full of Stones." The unity felt on "The Pimp & the Bun" is now heartwarming and so very bittersweet, and while "Da Game Been Good to Me" looks a lot like the last album's "The Game Belongs to Me" -- especially with Avarexx on both cuts -- it's an entirely new single that places with their best work. The fascinating ying and yang of UGK is best illustrated by the Pimp's unmentionable track with Lil Boosie and Webbie -- one his most filthy and fun numbers ever -- and the poignant outro where Bun gives fans a proper nod but can't quite bring himself to close the book on the group. ~ David Jeffries |
Producer: 808 Boyz; Akon; Bun B; Pimp C |
Musical Guests | | Raheem DeVaughn | | Ronald Isley | | Sleepy Sleepy Brown | | Big Gipp | | Lil' Boosie | | Webbie | | E-40 | | Eightball | | MJG | | B-Legit | | 8Ball & MJG | | Snoop Dogg | | Too Short | | Akon |
| | Artist Overview | | UGK (aka Underground Kingz) are Houston-based MCs Bun B and Pimp C. Along with the Geto Boys, the duo are considered key figures in the rise of Houston rap in the late 1980s. Although their lyrics cover fairly typical gangsta rap terrain, the UGK's association with the Screwed Up Click put them at the fore of the then obscure Chopped & Screwed movement. The duo has also guested on classic tracks like Jay-Z's "Big Pimpin'" and Three 6 Mafia's iconic "Sippin on Some Sizzurp." Bun B and Pimp C have both released successful solo albums in the new millennium. Sadly, Pimp C was found dead in a Hollywood room in late 2007. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 03/31/2009 | | Original Release Date : 2009 | | Catalog ID : 88697269662 | | Label : Jive Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00886972696621 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.86)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 -- 'Da Game Been Good to Me' reminds us what rap lost with Pimp C's death: one of its most musical and melodic MCs, with a thick drawl and a knack for wildly elongating words..."Spin (p.98)
- "UGK 4 LIFE is a fitting capper to this Texas duo's storied career -- nothing groundbreaking, just funky, rough-hewn, celebratory tracks." Blender (Magazine)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "The languid beats are hazy with heat-distortion organs...the spirit is carefree....Pimp excelled at scowling, bawdy boasts, and he creates his own eulogy here..." Pitchfork (Website)
- "Bun-B's performance is a masterwork of nuance here, sounding doubled even when it's obvious he's not..." |
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