1. PopMatters is moving to WordPress and a new host, but we really need your help to save the site. [14][15] The album also spent three weeks at the top of the US Rap album chart. Can Queer Studies Rescue American Universities? II Trill is the second studio album by UGK member Bun B.It was released on May 20, 2008 by Rap-a-Lot Records, Asylum Records and Warner Bros. Records. [16][17][18][19] The album has since sold 300,000 copies. Its B-side "Pop It 4 Pimp" has also received radio airplay. Thank you for your life, Eddie Van Halen. Mike Jones & Slim Thug) by xXSpiKeXx24553. yo bun. What it is, though, is a consistently great rap album by a consistently great emcee. Future Islands' sixth album, As Long As You Are, is more of the same -- deeply confessional synthpop -- and that's a beautiful thing. [10][13] The lead single, "That's Gangsta" featuring Sean Kingston was released on May 20, 2008. HOUSTON – Rapper Bun B is selling limited edition t-shirts in collaboration with Trill Taco in Missouri City.. It was both goodwill politicking (“Free Pimp C” cries belied the fact that he idiotically violated his probation) and pissed-off headhunting, but even more so, his willingness to show up on tracks by mostly young Southerners illustrated what had always been at the core of Bun’s art: an undying love for his people and his craft. II Trill (Ft. J. The third album by the impossible-to-categorize no-wave duo Budokan Boys is a meditation on death filled with songs that are both strange and strangely moving. Natasha Alterici's comic series, Heathen, has single-handedly redeemed the disaster that pop culture has been making of Norse mythology. On “Damn I’m Cold”, the album’s best song, he and Wayne trade verses (and pass the baton) over wailing organ squalls, spidery guitars, and a meandering bass line, parlaying each other’s unparalleled ability to talk shit (Wayne: “I’m with Ben Frank so much he’s starting to look like me”; Bun: "Fresher than Ozium, cleaner than wax floors / I’m slick as linoleum, swangin’ them ‘Lac doors”) into a potential Southern touchstone. PopMatters have been informed by our current technology and hosting provider that we have less than a month, until November 6, to move PopMatters off their service or we will be shut down. But I had forgotten how to attend a ticketed concert. But unlike that album, II Trill is obviously not Bun B’s defining musical statement; UGK has way too many classics in the bank for that. The album is the follow-up to his successful debut album, Trill. It was mentioned that after the death of his lifelong friend and companion Pimp C, due in part to an accidental overdose, he is likely to "ban the syrup talk on his new CD. II Trill Bun B. II Trill Tracklist. With "II Trill" Bun B's ensured the legacy of U.G.K. II Trill is the second studio album by UGK member Bun B. It was released on October 18, 2005, by Rap-a-Lot Records, Asylum Records and Atlantic Records. Bun B - City Of The Swang (feat. Bun B ‎– II Trill Label: Rap-A-Lot 4 Life ‎– 445884, Rap-A-Lot Records ‎– 445884 Format: CD, Album Country: US Released: 20 May 2008 Genre: Hip Hop. Fifty years after its original release, the Doors' Morrison Hotel is reissued as a two-CD /one-vinyl set that includes 19 bonus cuts. Bun reached out, both for the benefit of his group and for the benefit of the South, and on his excellent second solo album, II Trill, the South reaches back to him. All rights reserved.PopMatters is wholly independent, women-owned and operated. John Lennon would have been 80 years old today. The album debuted at number six on the Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 118,000 copies in the United States.[1]. But Pimp’s incarceration stoked Bun’s fire, and in 2005, he went on an absolute tear, murdering verses on tracks by heavyweights like T.I. "[10] The album was originally set to be released on April 29, 2008[10] but was pushed back to May 20. On “I Luv That”, the album’s best solo joint, Bun manhandles Scott Storch’s slippery robot-synths, spitting the same type of king-shit that he has for decades, yet he still sounds invigorating doing it. But unlike that album, II Trill is obviously not Bun B’s defining musical statement; UGK has way too many classics in the bank for that. Released May 20, 2008. And not in an egotistical way either, as neither Bun nor his guests bow at the altar of the work he’s done, either implicitly or explicitly, for Southern rap. The album is the follow-up to his successful debut album, Trill. As a bonus, the subtle left-field turns that made a mess of Trill succeed in spades on II Trill. Let’s not take it for granted. George Marshall's western spoof, Destry Rides Again, has a serious central premise; can society function without the threat of violence? 3. It was released on May 20, 2008 by Rap-a-Lot Records, Asylum Records and Warner Bros. Records. Bun owns “Undergound Thang”’s spurting reggae horns, and on “If It Was Up II Me” his grim-world portrait gets added levity from plaintive Jamaican guitars, blunted drums, and splintered keys. Despite its ambitious concept, Cut Worms' Nobody Lives Here Anymore is as much a product of nostalgic consumer culture as the society it criticizes. This is, of course, still a Bun B solo album, even though his solo tracks are outnumbered basically four to one, and Bun lords over the proceedings like the seen-everything veteran that he is. John Lennon: Revolutionary Man As Political Artist, Future Islands Continue to Soar on 'As Long As You Are', Cut Worms Keeps Mining the Past on 'Nobody Lives Here Anymore', The Doors Check Into the 'Morrison Hotel', Elliott Park's Joyful Family Ride "To the Moon and Back" (premiere), Eddie Van Halen Inspired a Generation of Guitar Dreamers, Tallah Revive Those Familiar Nu-Metal Blues with 'Matriphagy', Heathen's Queer Feminist Vikings Are the Heroines Pop Culture Needed, Jack Halberstam's 'Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire' (excerpt). And in the end, it’s Bun’s ability to make a coherent puzzle out of the 20-plus guests and his desire to stretch the boundaries of his sound that makes II Trill such a satisfying listen, something like the Southern Late Registration.

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