The motive Pimp C was mad at André 3000’s ‘Int’l Players Anthem’ verse

‘Int’l Players Anthem’ is now be a marriage anthem and a staple of 2000’s Hip Hop, nevertheless it truly began out on the flawed foot. When UGK tasked André 3000 with laying down a verse on the DJ Paul and Juicy J-produced document, they couldn’t have imagined what could be despatched again to them.

OutKast have been featured on the Texas duo’s single from Underground Kingz in 2007, with André 3000 delivering an iconic verse about marriage and monogamy. Nonetheless, Three Stacks took it upon himself to take away the beat altogether in an effort to spit his verse, leaving Pimp C removed from impressed.

Throughout his look on LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s The Store, André 3000 recalled Pimp C’s response to listening to his verse, which had him “mad” concerning the outcomes. “Rest in peace Pimp [C], but I got a [funny] story about that,” he mentioned. “Pimp was so mad at me because they sent the beat and I wrote my verse, put my words down and I took the beat out for me to rap.

“When I sent it back to them, Pimp was like, ‘Fuck this muthafucka, man! This n-gga done goddamn took my beat out! Who the fuck he think he is?!’ So he was really mad at the choice that I had made to take the beat [out].”

André 3000 believes Bun B might have performed a job in convincing Pimp C to chill his preliminary response and are available round to the concept that the tune would possibly work out for the higher. “I don’t know if it was Bun B or somebody, they were like, ‘Nah, but you don’t understand, when that beat drop, though, it sets it off,’” he mentioned. “So it’s almost like a set-up. So it worked, and once he got that, he was like, ‘Okay, okay.’ But he was so mad at me.”

Veteran A&R Jeff Sledge reiterated André 3000’s feedback on the A Waste of Time podcast, claiming he was “pissed” about the entire thing. Like Bun B, Sledge instructed that the acapella verse may work out and provides Pimp C’s bars much more shine.

“When André sent his piece back and had no drums, [Pimp C] was pissed off,” he mentioned. “He was like ‘Fuck André, man! How the fuck is he gonna send my shit back and take my drums out? Fuck that.’ He was going off about André taking the drums out.”

He added, “I was like, ‘Chad, hold up fam. Let’s rock it like that because when André doing a capella and then when the beat drops, that’s when your verse drops. And then your verse is gonna lift the record up because now the beat is rocking and your verse is kicking.’ And he’s like, ‘Alright, Jeff. I’m gonna give it a shot. If it fucks up, it’s on you.’”

Fortunately every thing labored out in the long run, leading to one among 3000’s most interesting verses on wax. A world with out that “Keep your heart, Three Stacks, keep your heart” line wouldn’t fairly make sense.

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