UGK: "Feel Like I'm the One Who's Doin' Dope" Preview/Buy from iTunes Consider, for example, the piano that noses around the corners of "It's Supposed to Bubble," never settling into one basic figure, or the murmuring blues-guitar curls buried in "Diamonds and Wood." Pimp's beats could be intense and vicious, but even then they always subtly mutated and evolved. And rather than just looping up his tracks, Pimp kept new elements fading in and out for his tracks' entire running time. But Pimp's tracks sounded even fuller and more layered than those guys' work.
Dre, DJ Slip and the Unknown DJ, the Rap-A-Lot stable of house producers, a few others. In the early 90s, a few other producers were playing around with live instruments and warmer, expansive tones: Dr. Put some goddamn melody in that shit and maybe you can get some money." Pimp took that suggestion and ran with it. There's a great moment in the interview where Pimp talks about something his stepfather, who was also Pimp's music teacher, told him when he first started producing rap records: "Put some music in that shit, you know you know how to read music. In this Noz interview, Pimp talked about being a kid and playing around with his father's jukebox and piano, singing in his choir, and playing trumpet in his school band. His father was a trumpet player for Burke, among others. Pimp grew up steeped in music, particularly Southern soul music. Solomon Burke: "Got to Get You Off of My Mind." Preview/Buy from iTunes
Over on the XXL blogs, Noz is doing an amazing job unearthing all manner of Pimp-related rarities, and you owe it to yourself to dig a little deeper and check it out.ġ. A quick note: This isn't by any means a definitive Pimp C playlist.
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