Pimp C was livid when André 3000 removed the drums from his verse on 2007 UGK single "Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You)."
On an upcoming episode of LeBron James and Maverick Carter's The Shop, André recounted the "funny story" of the late Pimp C being "really mad" at him over his verse.
"Pimp was so mad at me because they sent the beat and I wrote my verse, put my words down and I took the beat out for me to rap," André said about the opening verse.
"When I sent it back to them, Pimp was like, 'Fuck this muthafucka, man! This n***a done goddamn took my beat out! Who the fuck he think he is?!’" he continued. "So he was really mad at the choice that I had made to take the beat [out]."
Pimp C, who died in December 2007 from a drug overdose, frequently had demands for UGK collaborators.
"I don’t know if it was Bun [B] or somebody, they were like, ‘Nah, but you don’t understand, when that beat drop, though, it sets it off.’ So it’s almost like a set-up," André added. "So it worked, and once he got that, he was like, ‘Okay, okay.’ But he was so mad at me."
In 2016, Atlantic Records A&R Jeff Sledge recounted André's experience on podcast A Waste of Time.
"I was like, 'Chad, hold up, fam. Let’s rock it like that because when André doing a capella and then when the beat drops, that’s when your verse drops. And then your verse is gonna lift the record up because now the beat is rocking and your verse is kicking,'" Sledge recalled about convincing Pimp C to keep André's verse.
"And he’s like, ‘Alright, Jeff. I’m gonna give it a shot. If [the song] fucks up, it’s on you.'"
Additional guests on the upcoming episode of The Shop include Sexyy Red, Fear of God founder Jerry Lorenzo, BMX athlete Nigel Sylvester and actress-comedian Jiaoying Summers.
