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Bun B On JAY-Z Borrowing His Lyrics For ’99 Problems’ (2022)
Bun B has revealed that he doesn’t feel it’s necessarily a bad thing that more fans don’t know that JAY-Z‘s “99 Problems” features lines from one of his verses.
While appearing as a guest on the People’s Party With Talib Kweli, the Houston OG was asked whether he felt like a lot of fans don’t know the origins of the first four lines of Hov’s third verse on the hit single, which appeared on 2003’s The Black Album.
The verse hears JAY-Z quoting Bun directly, rapping “Now, once upon a time not too long ago/ A n-gga like myself had to strong-arm a ho/ Now, this was not a ho in the sense of having a pussy/ But a pussy having no goddamn sense, tryna push me.” The lines first appeared on the song “Touched,” from UGK’s seminal album Ridin’ Dirty.
“I feel like enough people know,” Bun B responded. “But I don’t feel like it’s that big of a deal. I would call it mutual respect. We do this a lot in Hip Hop, right? Where we have artists who have said, ‘Fuck that was dope, the way he said that.’ And sometimes you wanna pay homage to that wordplay. How many songs, Kweli, have you listened to and been like, ‘I woulda rhymed that last part like this.’”
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Bun B has revealed that he doesn’t feel it’s necessarily a bad thing that more fans don’t know that JAY-Z‘s “99 Problems” features lines from one of his verses.
While appearing as a guest on the People’s Party With Talib Kweli, the Houston OG was asked whether he felt like a lot of fans don’t know the origins of the first four lines of Hov’s third verse on the hit single, which appeared on 2003’s The Black Album.
The verse hears JAY-Z quoting Bun directly, rapping “Now, once upon a time not too long ago/ A n-gga like myself had to strong-arm a ho/ Now, this was not a ho in the sense of having a pussy/ But a pussy having no goddamn sense, tryna push me.” The lines first appeared on the song “Touched,” from UGK’s seminal album Ridin’ Dirty.
“I feel like enough people know,” Bun B responded. “But I don’t feel like it’s that big of a deal. I would call it mutual respect. We do this a lot in Hip Hop, right? Where we have artists who have said, ‘Fuck that was dope, the way he said that.’ And sometimes you wanna pay homage to that wordplay. How many songs, Kweli, have you listened to and been like, ‘I woulda rhymed that last part like this.’”
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