Pimp-C, one half of the Texas rap group UGK (Underground Kingz), is set to release his first solo project, The Sweet James Jones Stories,due out early 2005 on Rap-A-Lot Records. Pimp-C will be one of ...

Methinks the baller doth protest too much. Polite, gold-toothed, braided, and jovial-as-he-wants-to-be, 8ball is hardly the prototype for post-Too Short pimp rap. Or so he’d have you believe. “Every ...

In the early 1990s, U.G.K. — it stood for "Underground Kingz — was one of the most important hip-hop acts in Texas. Bun B (Bernard Freeman) and Pimp C (Chad Butler) specialized in lurid tales of ...

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit the Oakland rapper’s imperial ’90s peak with the ...

For those of you discontent with the hip-hop scene, Ghostface Killah released an excellent album this week along with this accompanying video. Veteran rapper Pimp C dies in L.A. Rapper Pimp C, of the ...

Pimp C’s widow is entangled in a legal battle with her late husband’s former record label, Rap-A-Lot, over the Port Arthur, TX MC's forthcoming posthumous album, Still Pimpin', reports the Houston ...

2005: Thirteen years ago today, the furs came out of trunks and closets, and "Free Pimp C" shirts started collecting dust. After serving roughly half of what was an eight-year prison sentence, the ...

Incarcerated rap star Pimp C is about to be set free. Pimp C, half of the acclaimed Texas duo Underground Kingz, or UGK, will be paroled within 30 days after serving about half of an eight-year ...