Dirty Money - Blender

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Dirty Money

(Jive)
Release Date: 11/13/2001 12:00

Jay-Z may have given Port Arthur, Texas’s UGK (Underground Kingz) the spotlight on his 2000 good-life celebration “Big Pimpin’,” but Bun B and Pimp C didn’t need him for cred — the southern duo has been underground hustling for almost a decade. Dirty Money, their fourth album, is trademark UGK, rich with dark-alley drama, ostentatious cars and good old-fashioned street-corner misconduct. B&C perk up what could be tired topics with cleverness — alliteration one minute (“Giving industry enemy infantries infinite injuries instantly”), paraphrasing Rakim, E-40 and Public Enemy the next. It makes UGK’s vicious stories feel more palatable but doesn’t obscure their true grit.

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