- Somebody reached out about getting UGK on this record,
on this new Jay Z album they was working on.
And, you know, me and Ja was like, "Hell yeah, you know,
"Jay is on fire, like, this will be great for UGK.
"It'll escalate their whole thing to a national level."
And so Bun was with it right away.
"Let's do it."
Cuz Bun looked at it as, not only is it gonna
increase our profile, but I'm going to show my country
that us guys from Texas can rap, bar for bar,
with, at that time, the best rapper in the country.
And Chad was like, "Nah, I ain't doing that.
"Man, Jay-Z."
I was like, Chad, you gotta do it man, come on.
He just wouldn't do it.
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Bun came up here, hung out with Jay,
knocked his verse out, like crushed it.
And then we sent the, Bun and Chad's,
Bun and Jay's stuff to Chad, and Chad shat on it.
He wouldn't do it for like, for a minute, man.
Weeks.
And he called me one day, he's like,
"Jeff, man,
"I went on and did that thing, man.
"But you listen.
"I only gave him 12 bars.
"I ain't gave him 16, man.
"Fuck Jay-Z."
I was like, dude.
But, you know, he killed it.
Them 12 bars was crazy.
But I think Jay listened to it and was like,
wow, these guys really crushed this record.
And now it feels almost like this UGK featuring Jay.
So that's why Jay added that last eight bars on the end.
♪ On the canopy, my stamina be... ♪
That wasn't there before.
It's to kinda balance the record out.
But again, it was great, he killed it.
So then, we're like, yo, let's do the video.
And Chad was like, "Nope, I ain't shootin' no video."
And Bun of course is like, "Let's go."
At the time everybody had money,
so they were going to Trinidad, all expenses paid,
it was gonna be Trinidad carnival,
and Buns was like, "Yo, I'm, let's go."
And Chad was like, "I'm not going."
And we, everybody thought Chad was going,
right 'till they got to the airport and he didn't show up.
So if you watch the video, cuz the parts with Jay throwing,
on the floatin' on it, all you see is just Bun.
Cuz Chad didn't go.
So then we finally convinced Chad to do it,
and that's when they did the pick up day,
or maybe two days probably, in Miami.
Which is where you see Chad with the whole Gloria thing
with the car and all that.
That was all, the only reason they did
those Miami shots was because of Chad.
But he was like stubborn like that.
He was like, "I'm only gonna do it on my time, on my terms.
"But, when I do it, I'm gonna kill it."
You know, which he did.
He had the fur coat with no shirt,
Gloria was the baddest chick of the game,
the car nobody ever saw.
So he murdered it, but it had to be,
it always had to be on his, you could never,
you cannot rush him to do anything.
He's not one of the like,
"Yo, it's gotta be done by the first."
Whatever.
He's gonna do it on his time, in his way.
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