![]() Though Jive didn't give Bun and his late collaborator Pimp C (who died in 2007 from an accidental overdose of codeine and promethazine - aka "purple drank") the major publicity push they wanted, they still dropped an album full of vivid, inventive wordplay and funky beats. Pimp actually wanted a video for every song on Ridin' Dirty." We didn't want to not have videos for Ridin' Dirty. ![]() But our record company never believed in us enough to do that kind of stuff. ![]() We wanted big videos, big marketing campaigns, tour buses and all of that. "We simply didn't get any support from ," he laments. However, Bun B says he would've loved to have some singles and videos out there. "If a hundred people approach me," Bun B tells CultureMap, "ninety-five of them will immediately go to Ridin' Dirty." It has also become one of the most influential hip-hop albums to come out of Texas. Twenty-five years ago this Friday, July 30, the duo of Bun B and Pimp C - better known as UGK (Underground Kingz) - released their third album Ridin' Dirty.ĭespite not having any singles or music videos for listeners to sample, it became their best-selling album, moving 70,000 copies in its first week and 850,000 copies sold to date.
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