UGK & B.B. King - The Trill Is Gone feat. Mr. 3-2 & Ronnie Spencer (Prod. Amerigo Gazaway)
Channel: Soul Mates Records
Date: 2019-10-14

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.

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Tracklist: 

01. Pimptro
02. The Trill Is Gone feat. Mr. 3-2 & Ronnie Spencer
03. Make Love To My Car
04. Country Cousins feat. Talib Kweli & Raheem DeVaughn  
05. They Luv That feat. Bubba Sparxxx
06. Int'l Blues Players Anthem feat. Outkast & Eric Clapton 
07. Lil' Ghetto Woman feat. Lil' Wayne & Marlena Shaw
08. What Means The World To Pimp feat. Ludacris  
09. Intermission
10. Pop It For Pimp feat. Juvenile 
11. Same Old Story feat. P.O.P.
12. Want A White Gurl So Bad
13. The Truth Hurts feat. Scarface
14. That's Gangsta Life 
15. Pourin' Up 
16. Get Out The Way 
17. Shoutro 
18. Smoke Sumthin' feat. Trill A.G. (Bonus Track)

Credits:

Soul Mates Records 2015 
Produced by Amerigo Gazaway 
Executive Producer: Rickey Mindlin 
Artwork: Vincent "Mr. Ö" Fontaine (www.mistero.fr) 

B.B. King: vocals, guitar (Lucille) 
UGK (Pimp C & Bun B): vocals 
Amerigo Gazaway: organ, electric bass, rhodes, synth, turntables, drum machine, sampler, vocals (Trill A.G.) 
Art Webb (of This is ART): electric bass (tracks 4, 6, 7, 14) 
Sama'an Ashrawi: UGK interview audio 
The Goodwill Projects: DIY acapellas 

Other Audio Sources: 

B.B. King: The Life of Riley (Documentary) 
WDIA 1070AM: The History, The Legend, The Music (CD) 
The Dolewite & Scooby Show (101.1 FM Nashville, "The Beat") 

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