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UGK (short for Underground Kingz) was an American hip hop duo from Port Arthur, Texas, formed in 1987, by Chad "Pimp C" Butler and Bernard "Bun B" Freeman. [1]

68 relations: AllMusic, Associated Press, Banned (EP), BET Awards, BET Hip Hop Awards, Big Daddy Kane, Big Pimpin', Billboard (magazine), Billboard 200, Billboard Hot 100, Bun B, Chopped and screwed, Dirty Money (album), Dizzee Rascal, DJ Paul, DJ Screw, Double album, Extended play, Gangsta rap, Grammy Award, Hip hop music, House of Blues, International Players Anthem (I Choose You), Jay-Z, Jazze Pha, Jive Records, Juicy J, Kool G Rap, Lil Jon, Los Angeles County Fire Department, Marley Marl, Master P, Maths + English, Menace II Society (soundtrack), Mondrian Hotel, MTV News, Outkast, Ozone (magazine), Paul Wall, Pimp C, Pimpalation, Port Arthur, Texas, Project Pat, Rap-A-Lot Records, Record label, Rick Ross, Ridin' Dirty, Scarface (rapper), Sippin' on Some Syrup, Slim Thug, ..., Southern hip hop, Super Tight, Sweet James Jones Stories, Swizz Beatz, Talib Kweli, The Runners, The Southern Way, Three 6 Mafia, Too Hard to Swallow, Too Short, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Trill (album), UGK 4 Life, Underground Kingz, United Kingdom, West Hollywood, California, Z-Ro, 8Ball & MJG. Expand index (18 more) »

AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Banned (EP)

Banned is the second EP by UGK.

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BET Awards

The BET Awards were established in 2001 by the Black Entertainment Television network to celebrate African Americans and other American minorities in music, acting, sports, and other fields of entertainment over the past year.

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BET Hip Hop Awards

The BET Hip Hop Awards are an annual awards show, airing on BET, showcasing hip hop performers, producers and music video directors.

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Big Daddy Kane

Antonio Hardy (born September 10, 1968), better known by his stage name Big Daddy Kane, is a Grammy Award-winning American rapper and actor who started his career in 1986 as a member of the rap collective the Juice Crew.

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Big Pimpin'

"Big Pimpin'" is the third and final single from rapper Jay-Z's fourth album Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Bun B

Bernard Freeman (born March 19, 1973), is an American rapper better known by his stage name Bun B. He is best known as one half of the southern rap duo UGK (UnderGround Kingz), a group he formed in 1987 alongside Pimp C. Aside from his work with UGK, Bun B has released four solo albums, including 2010's Trill OG, which received the rare 5 mic rating from The Source.

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Chopped and screwed

Chopped and screwed (sometimes called screwed and chopped or slowed and throwed) is a technique of remixing hip hop music which developed in the Houston hip hop scene in the early 1990s.

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Dirty Money (album)

Dirty Money is the fourth studio album by American hip hop duo UGK.

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Dizzee Rascal

Dylan Kwabena Mills (born 18 September 1984), better known by his stage name Dizzee Rascal, is an English hip hop recording artist and record producer. A pioneer of grime music, his work has also incorporated elements of UK garage, bassline, British hip hop, and R&B. He released his acclaimed debut album Boy in da Corner in 2003. It has since been considered a grime classic and earned him the 2003 Mercury Prize. Follow-up albums Showtime, Maths + English, and Tongue n' Cheek have been critically praised and certified platinum, with Tongue n' Cheek going platinum for sales exceeding 300,000 units in the United Kingdom. He has scored the number-one hits "Dance wiv Me", "Bonkers", "Holiday", "Dirtee Disco", "Shout".

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DJ Paul

Paul Duane Beauregard, (born January 12, 1977) better known by his stage name DJ Paul, is an American rapper, record producer, DJ, songwriter and entrepreneur from South Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee.

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DJ Screw

Robert Earl Davis Jr. (July 20, 1971 – November 16, 2000), better known by his stage name DJ Screw, was an American hip hop DJ based in Smithville, Texas, and best known as the creator of the now-famous chopped and screwed DJ technique.

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Double album

A double album (or double record) is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact disc.

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Extended play

An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP.

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Gangsta rap

Gangsta rap or Gangster rap is a style of hip hop characterized by themes and lyrics that generally emphasize the "gangsta" lifestyle.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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House of Blues

House of Blues is a chain of live music concert halls and restaurants in major markets throughout the United States.

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International Players Anthem (I Choose You)

"International Players Anthem (I Choose You)" is a song by American hip hop duo UGK, released on June 6, 2007, as the second single from their fifth studio album Underground Kingz (2007).

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Jay-Z

Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969) known professionally as Jay-Z (stylized JAY-Z), is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and entrepreneur.

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Jazze Pha

Phalon Anton Alexander, professionally known as Jazze Pha, is an American record producer, singer, songwriter and rapper from Atlanta, Georgia.

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Jive Records

Jive Records was an American record label under the RCA Music Group formed in 1981 by Zomba Records. Formerly headquartered in New York City, the label was best known for a string of successes with hip hop artists in the 1980s, and also in teen pop and boy bands during the 1990s and early 2000s. Jive Records operated as an independently managed label until 2003, when Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) acquired the remainder of its parent company Zomba for US $2.74 billion, which at the time was the largest-ever acquisition of an independent label with major-label distribution.

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Juicy J

Jordan Michael Houston (born April 5, 1975), known professionally as Juicy J, is an American rapper, songwriter and record producer from Memphis, Tennessee.

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Kool G Rap

Nathaniel Thomas Wilson (born July 20, 1968), better known by his stage name Kool G Rap (or simply G Rap), is an American rapper from Queens.

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Lil Jon

Jonathan Smith (born January 27, 1971), better known by his stage name Lil Jon, is an American rapper, record producer, and DJ.

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Los Angeles County Fire Department

The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD) provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, California, as well as 59 cities, including the city of La Habra which is located in Orange County and is the first city outside of Los Angeles County to contract with LACoFD.

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Marley Marl

Marlon Williams (born September 30, 1962), better known by his stage name Marley Marl, is an American DJ, record producer, rapper and record label founder, primarily operating in hip hop music.

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Master P

Percy Robert Miller, known by his stage name Master P or his business name P. Miller is an American rapper, actor, businessman, record producer, philanthropist, and former basketball player.

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Maths + English

Maths + English is the third studio album by English rapper Dizzee Rascal.

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Menace II Society (soundtrack)

Menace II Society is the name of the official soundtrack for the 1993 teen hood drama film of the same name.

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Mondrian Hotel

Mondrian Hotels is the name of five boutique hotels owned and/or operated by SBE Entertainment Group.

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MTV News

MTV News is the news production division of MTV.

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Outkast

Outkast (stylized as OutKast) is an American hip hop duo formed in 1991 in East Point, Georgia, composed of Atlanta-based rappers André "André 3000" Benjamin (formerly known as Dré) and Antwan "Big Boi" Patton.

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Ozone (magazine)

Ozone is an American magazine focused more on the hip hop music of the Southern United States.

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Paul Wall

Paul Michael Slayton (born March 11, 1981), better known by his stage name Paul Wall, is an American rapper from Houston, Texas.

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Pimp C

Chad Lamont Butler (December 29, 1973 – December 4, 2007), better known by his stage name Pimp C, was an American rapper and record producer.

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Pimpalation

Pimpalation is the second and final studio album by Pimp C; it was released on July 11, 2006.

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Port Arthur, Texas

Port Arthur is a city in Jefferson County within the Beaumont−Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area of the U.S. state of Texas.

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Project Pat

Patrick Houston (born February 8, 1973), better known as Project Pat is an American rapper and actor from Memphis, Tennessee.

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Rap-A-Lot Records

Rap-A-Lot is a Houston hip hop record label that was created in 1986.

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Record label

A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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Rick Ross

William Leonard Roberts II (born January 28, 1976), known professionally by his stage name Rick Ross, is an American rapper and entrepreneur.

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Ridin' Dirty

Ridin' Dirty is the third studio album by American hip hop duo UGK.

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Scarface (rapper)

Brad Terrence Jordan (born November 9, 1970), better known by his stage name Scarface, is an American rapper and music producer.

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Sippin' on Some Syrup

"Sippin' on Some Syrup", sometimes known as "Sippin' on Some Sizzurp", is the second single from Three 6 Mafia's fourth studio album When the Smoke Clears: Sixty 6, Sixty 1.

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Slim Thug

Stayve Jerome Thomas (born September 8, 1980), better known as Slim Thug, is an American rapper.

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Southern hip hop

Southern hip hop, also known as Southern rap, South Coast hip hop, or Dirty South, is a blanket term for a regional genre of American hip hop music that emerged in the Southern United States, especially in Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, Memphis, and Miami—the five of which constitute the "Southern Network" in rap music.

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Super Tight

Super Tight... is the second studio album by American hip hop duo UGK.

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Sweet James Jones Stories

The Sweet James Jones Stories is the solo debut album by Pimp C. Released on Rap-A-Lot Records.

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Swizz Beatz

Kasseem Dean (born September 13, 1978), better known by his stage name Swizz Beatz, is an American hip hop rapper, DJ and record producer from New York City, New York.

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Talib Kweli

Talib Kweli Greene (born October 3, 1975) is an American hip hop recording artist, entrepreneur, and social activist.

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The Runners

The Runners are an American electronic and hip hop production duo from Orlando, Florida, consisting of Andrew "Dru Brett" Harr and Jermaine "Mayne Zayne" Jackson.

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The Southern Way

The Southern Way is the debut EP by UGK, which was released on cassette only in 1992.

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Three 6 Mafia

Three 6 Mafia was an American hip hop group formed in 1991 in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Too Hard to Swallow

Too Hard to Swallow is the debut studio album by American hip hop duo UGK.

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Too Short

Todd Anthony Shaw (born April 28, 1966) better known by the stage name Too Short (stylized as Too $hort), is an American rapper, record producer, and actor.

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Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales in the United States and is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.

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Trill (album)

Trill is the debut studio album by American rapper Bun B. It was released on October 18, 2005, by Rap-a-Lot Records, Asylum Records and Atlantic Records.

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UGK 4 Life

UGK 4 Life is the sixth and final studio album by American hip hop duo UGK.

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Underground Kingz

Underground Kingz is the fifth studio album by American hip hop duo UGK.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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West Hollywood, California

West Hollywood, occasionally referred to locally as WeHo, is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Z-Ro

Joseph Wayne McVey IV (born January 19, 1977), better known by his stage names Z-Ro and The Mo City Don, is an American rapper from Houston, Texas.

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8Ball & MJG

8Ball & MJG is an American hip hop duo from Memphis, Tennessee.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGK

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