Amerigo’s Gazaway’s B.B. King/ UGK project gets the Chopped Not Slopped treatment from OG Ron C & The Chopstars’ crew, DJ Blurray & DJ Whutitdew. Hear B.B. & The Underground Kingz – The Trill is Gone“ like you’ve never heard it before.
Under the Soul Mates Project banner of “collaborations that never were,” Amerigo Gazaway’s latest imagines a recording session between Blues great, BB King, and Texas rap legends, UGK. Aptly titled “BB & The Underground Kingz: The Trill is Gone,” the producer seamlessly bridges the gap between hip-hop and its predecessor, the blues.
Crafting the album’s bedrock from deconstructed samples of King’s electric blues hits, Gazaway re-imagined what might have happened had King and UGK actually recorded in the same time and space. Tapping UGK historian and documentary film maker, Sama’an Ashrawi, for unreleased interview audio, the producer cleverly uses the soundbites to help build his project’s narrative. Strategically looping and lacing Lucille’s guitar licks and B.B.’s road tales with Bun B & Pimp C’s southern fried storytelling, Gazaway finds a sweet spot in the overlapping themes of his subjects’ respective catalogs.
Tracklist:
01. Pimptro feat. Trill A.G. [Chopped Not Slopped] 0:00
02. The Trill is Gone feat. Mr. 3-2 & Ronnie Spencer [Chopped Not Slopped] 1:00
03. Pourin’ Up [Chopped Not Slopped] 7:30
04. Make Love to My Car [Chopped Not Slopped] 11:30
05. Pop It For Pimp feat. Juvenile [Chopped Not Slopped] 17:39
06. That’s Gangsta Life [Chopped Not Slopped] 21:15
07. I Want A White Gurl So Bad [Chopped Not Slopped] 27:04
08. Get Out The Way [Chopped Not Slopped] 32:04
09. Int’l Blues Players Anthem feat. Outkast & Eric Clapton [Chopped Not Slopped] 35:28
10. Country Cousins feat. Talib Kweli & Raheem DeVaughn [Chopped Not Slopped] 43:44
11. They Luv That feat. Bubba Sparxxx [Chopped Not Slopped] 49:00
12. Lil’ Ghetto Woman feat. Lil’ Wayne [Chopped Not Slopped] 53:49
13. The Truth Hurts feat. Scarface [Chopped Not Slopped] 57:58
14. Same Old Story feat. P.O.P. [Chopped Not Slopped] 1:03:10
15. Shoutro [Chopped Not Slopped] 1:08:00
16. Smoke Sumthin’ feat. Trill A.G. [Chopped Not Slopped] 1:11:42
Credits
Soul Mates Records 2015
Produced by Amerigo Gazaway
Chopped Not Slopped version mixed by DJ WhutItDew & DJ Blurray
