UGK made a high-profile guest appearance on Jay-Z's smash hit " Big Pimpin'" and also appeared on Three 6 Mafia's hit " Sippin' on Some Syrup". The year 2000 became a breakthrough year for the group. Ridin' Dirty would also be UGK's last album for the time being, as they went on a five-year hiatus not long afterward. Unlike their previous album, Super Tight managed to break into the Billboard Hot 200 and ultimately peaked at #95 their third album, Ridin' Dirty, peaked at #15. Their second album, Super Tight, was released two years later, on August 30.
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A popular song from the album "Pocket Full of Stones" was also included on the Menace II Society soundtrack in 1993. Five of these songs would surface two months before the release of Too Hard to Swallow, on an EP distributed by Bigtyme Recordz appropriately enough, the EP was titled Banned. However, several songs that had been intended to be included on the album were excised at the last minute, apparently due to their overly explicit content. While it featured several new recordings, it also featured several songs that had been culled from The Southern Way. In 1992, UGK was signed to Jive Records under a five-album contract, releasing their major-label debut album Too Hard to Swallow. Following the advice of Pimp's stepfather to "put some music in that shit", Pimp decided to move beyond Run-DMC's kick- snare formula, opting instead for 808s and especially hi-hats. Influenced by Run-DMC, he started synthesizing beats to rap over after receiving a drum machine and keyboard one Christmas. His vocal style is of a "high-voiced, unstable and provocateur, as likely to slap your face as to sing you a love song". Pimp, or Chad Butler, is the son of a trumpet player and has had an interest in music since childhood: "I come from a classical background, I came up singing Italian sonnets, Negro spirituals, and shit of that nature." Even before studying musical notation in school he learned to play many instruments by ear including piano, trumpet, drums and flugelhorn. Born Bernard Freeman, his childhood nickname "Bunny" was shortened to Bun. īun's rap style was described as a "speeding-train delivery" with lyrics that "feel sanded-down and coated by heavy lacquer". UGK blended "deep bluesy texures, triumphant church organs, thick funk and meaty soul". They called themselves "Underground Kingz" because their country rap style was so full of "slang and twang" they thought it inaccessible for outsiders. Though the town of 60,000 has a significant African American population, it was not known for its rap scene. Originally from Port Arthur, Texas UGK members Pimp and Bun were from the same town as Janis Joplin and Robert Rauschenberg.
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