UGK, Int’l Players Anthem (I Choose You) | Bangerz N Bopz 🔥

In the 16^th edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥, we highlight “Int’l Players Anthem (I Choose You)” performed by UGK. 

Bring on the bold, fierce songs! Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 serves up background info and insight into songs of various styles, especially songs that raise eyebrows and/or stir the pot.  Featured records can be classic or brand new. In the 16^th edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2023), we break down 🎵 “Int’l Players Anthem (I Choose You)” performed by 🎙 UGK.

“Oh, oh, I choose you girl.” In 2007, rap duo 🎙 UGK – 🎙 Bun B and the late, 🎙 Pimp C – accomplished something special. Their first album in more than five years, 💿 UGK (Underground Kingz), debuted at no. 1 on the Billboard 200.  This project marked their sole no. 1 album, and one of two top-10 albums.  Furthermore, Underground Kings featured their only charting single on the pop charts (attributed to them as the lead artist), 🎵 “Int’l Players Anthem (I Choose You),” which reached no. 70 on the Billboard Hot 100.  Assisting UGK is the iconic Atlantic rap duo, 🎙 OutKast.  DEFINITELY A BIG DEAL! Fueling the fire of all four rappers is production by 🎛 DJ Paul and Juicy J (go on and gag some mo’), who sample the popular, 1973 🎙 Willie Hutch classic, 🎵 “I Choose You”.

All rappers deliver kick ass bars.  It kicks off with 🎙 André 3000, who is true to self, in all his glory: “When I shoot the moon, high jump the broom / Like a preemie out the womb, my partner yelling, ‘Too soon! / Don’t do it! Reconsider, read some liter- / Ature on the subject; you sure? Fuck it.” Next, Pimp C takes the reins, unapologetically spitting, “My bitch a choosy lover, never fuck without a rubber / Never in the sheets, like it on top of the cover.” Well, shee-it! Bun B takes the third verse, telling her, “I’ll show you shit you never seen, the Seven Wonders of the World / And I can make you the eighth if you wanna be my girl.” Now that’s some fuckin’ game right there! Of course, last but not least, 🎙 Big Boi playfully kicks off his verse with “Eeny meeny decisions, with precision I pick, or / Make my selection on who I choose to be wit’, girl.” WOO! There’s also the memorable pitch-shifted lyrics, including a personal favorite, “Ask-ask Paul McCartney, the lawyers couldn’t stop it / Slaughter-slaughter of them pockets, had to tie her to a rocket.” Blast off! An entire essay could be written about 🎵 “Int’l Players Anthem (I Choose You)”, among the best rap songs of the aughts, period.  This Grammy-nominated banger speaks for itself.  R.I.P., Pimp C!

🎙 UGK • 💿 UGK (Underground Kingz) • 🏷 Zomba Recording LLC • 📅 2007

UGK, Int’l Players Anthem (I Choose You): Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 No. 16 (2023) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Zomba Recording LLC; cottonbro studio, Harry Shelton, Kool Shooters, Lucas Pazeta, Mavluda Tashbaeva, Teddy Yang, Wesley Souza from Pexels]