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The first time was at the Hip Hop Awards. I wanted to put Bishop upfront because I’m the type of brother, I believe in honor and honoring my elders. Just to think of it now, man, that was pretty big. Me and Jay is cool now. In his verse, Andre effectively casts all of them as the friends who don’t understand why he’s getting married, a conceit that the video pushes further. Did a few takes 'til it was perfected as much as we could and went for it. We basically came up around the same time, during the same struggle, all working these different clubs in the Chitlin' Circuit. You had Three 6 Mafia, David Banner. I wanted people to be like, “Awww, man. [Read the Making of UGK's "International Player's Anthem" Here]. The crazy part about that is, that [many] don’t know about me is I grew up in this music industry, in the music business. Those are two of my biggest influences—Kast and UGK. It was a mean-ass piece. Pimp and Bun both talk about pimping in bald terms, about convincing girls that it’d be a good idea to work for them. Andre and Pimp and Bun and Big…those are the people in some aspect, whether it’s style, whether it’s lyrics with Bun, whether it’s creativity and lyrics with Andre and Pimp’s belief in the South. It’s funny, if you watch the director’s cut that intro is a lot longer. Art Crime Pays: Trump Pardons Helly Nahmad, the Art World’s Cartoon Villain, On the Ground at the Inauguration: The Only Thing to See Was Hope, The Sun Sets on Pervert Pirates and Horror Vacui Bikers: Remembering S. Clay Wilson, 1942 – 2021, Salma Hayek Talks Bliss, Beauty and Breaking Boundaries, Over and over again, he captured America’s decisive moments, "How often do you see a Latina that is 54 on screen? Check out the fun, nostalgic video above. Not in every case, but in this video’s case. That was his thing. They fight over bouquets and shit. And also, all the rest of the folks. And the chemistry was great. Since then I've had different views about my life and my career. The whole thing comes with a fuzzy glow that I just love. I think the biggest part in them agreeing to do the video was the fact that Bryan Barber was willing to direct it. Released 14 May 2007 on UGK (catalog no. There was a few people that came through. It was crazy, though. (Honestly, I could listen to Southern rap luminaries make fun of Andre’s clothes for hours.) Before the wedding ceremony, UGK member Bun Band friends ridicule Andre 3000 for supposedly rushing into getting married, and poke fun at him for wearing a red kilt ("I've got Scottish in my family," Andre calmly … Originally, Paul and Juicy also rapped on the track, but I guess record-company politics kept that version from seeing the light of day. Crystal Michelle. My dad was the Wind, of Earth, Wind & Fire. Louis shirt, luggage. B.O.B, Lyrics: One, two / One, two, three, yeah! I never felt he got his just due as a producer, musician, composer, arranger. It was almost like they all went to high school together. ... Groomsman. I had to talk to Bun, like, “Yo, did you feel disrespected?” He was like, “Nah." I think that’s an image that nobody will ever forget about him. At the BET Hip Hop Awards, if Kanye had not recognized the video, I don’t believe we would have gotten an award. We asked him this when we shot “Big Pimpin’” 'cause he had on a mink coat and Gloria Velez had on a mink coat. It was this little band called Earth, Wind & Fire. Whether people want to agree with it or not. Alex Thomas: Yeah, I was playing the piano and I was one of the background pimps, ’70’s type niggas. Dre, he’s a huge fan of Pimp and Bun. All day. Bryan Barber: The way it all worked is that I had to talk in order to allow Bun enough time to get on stage. Big Boi came in. Choppin' Blades: Favorite Album: Super Tight Top 10 Songs: 1. International Players Anthem 2. Bryan Barber: That was all ad-libs. It was a very big deal and a very good time. I sampled the great Willie Hutch, [may he] rest in piece, and his daughter was there. The whole nine. And even when the buzz from the song fades, which it hasn’t since it first leaked, we’ll still have ideas to pick apart. Ha. Everybody started drinking at like 1 p.m. To be in L.A. and have that kind of country feel—I’m from Chicago, but it just gave something different, man. I told jokes for a living. We’d been tryin' to work on a project for a while. Kanye West famously gave his award to UGK after "Stronger" beat "International Player's Anthem" at the 2007 BET Hip Hop Awards. The video is centered on the fictional wedding of Outkast member Andre 3000, progressing through the men's waiting room before the ceremony, the wedding itself, the reception, and the afterparty dance. I remember when Pimp said, ‘We ain’t worried about rap, we do country rap tunes.’ At that time, hip-hop wasn’t giving us the respect. They kind of forced me my whole life, to play instruments, to play the piano and all this shit. Bun B: It was big for us, we couldn’t think of a time when all three of those groups had ever been in the same room together. Some of the guys are talking about women they want to fuck with. I was like, "If you can get him to do it, you can make whatever fucking video you want. / Like a million elephants or silverback orangutan / You can't stop André 3000: I don't know if I was there for that shot. Sadly, Pimp C didn't get to enjoy the spoils. (6.22.07) 06/22/2007. It was one of the last things we shot because when they did that it was a wrap. With André Benjamin, Crystal Michelle, Salina Soto. Wedding videos tend to be cheesy right, and not really feel staged. I can’t really take credit for that. So, to even be asked to be part of something so monumental is dope to me. Couples Dinner with Anthony Davis, Britney Spears' Father, Jamie, Remains as Co-Conservator After Court H…, Jon Jones to Fight Winner of Stipe Miocic vs. Francis Ngannou, Dana White S…. XXL continues to commemorate the song's five-year anniversary with a oral history of the single's classic video.— Carl Chery (@cchery), Ralph Bristout (@RalphXXL) & Calvin Stovall (@CalvinStovall). And then the women are actually saying, you know she’s been cheating on him. Before UGK’s new single “International Players Anthem” hit the internet a while ago, I would’ve placed myself somewhere between the two poles. Juicy J: The shoot was great everyone came through. He cast stunt women so the funny thing was, he put me on G, but everyone else really didn’t know. Honestly, I think it was a misunderstanding. In a now oft-replicated video for many a groom party and bevy of bridesmaids, the “International Players Anthem” video may be one of the last moments we actually got a humble Kanye West. Whoever got the behind the scenes, that’s some historical footage right there, 'cause it was crazy. Bun B: It was ridiculously hot, you got to keep in mind it was even worse for Pimp because he was in a full-length mink coat. This is going to look ridiculous, especially if Bridget’s reading this, but I’ve been engaged for a little more than a year now, and in that time no piece of pop-culture ephemera has made me more excited to be getting married than this video. Then you had other people like David Banner was there, T-Pain was there. But I didn’t like how he brought his new cartoonishly cheery persona to those verses or how he’d altered his slippery flow to the point where he was just rushing to cram in syllables, barely paying attention to the beat at all. I do remember seeing the coat later on. But, you know, we got past that. And out of everybody, Andre probably is the closest one who would get married in that fashion with that kind of grouping around him. All rights reserved. The “International Players Anthem” video hit the internet yesterday, and I’ve already watched it about fifteen times. The setting was pretty much dictated by the beginning of the song. Andre was the one who taught me it’s okay to be different. My father was probably in the biggest band in all music. It’s already a great pop moment. x . Anthem is a deceptive game. Gordon Parks Photographed America’s Hate While Creating Beauty, A Tribute to Milton Glaser from his Alma Mater, Cooper Union, Suzi Quatro’s Favorite Album: Bob Dylan’s ‘Blonde on Blonde’. Actually, that’s overstating things a bit. One Day 3. You had all the different pimps in the building. André 3000. I think the fact that it was an OutKast and UGK record, so that everything wasn’t necessarily on [André's] back played a big part in it. ", While R. Crumb pounded on the doors of propriety, it was Wilson who ripped them off their hinges, set them afire, and pissed on the ashes, Not since the city nearly went bankrupt in 1975 have we been so close to the brink, On February 24, Cooper Union will honor the 1951 graduate who went on to great things, "Geminis can never coast easily down the road!". They’re in characters so the expressions are really kind of going along with what’s happening in that environment. I really kind of allowed people. Teen Mom OG S9 . ©2017 Village Voice, LLC. That’s what made it comfortable. Still, it’s an amazing piece of work, and anyone who hasn’t seen it yet should probably go watch that shit right now before reading another word of this entry. So, T-Pain, he has a lot of energy, So I had them give him a choir role 'cause I was going to put them in the audience. A lot of times that kind of thing can look fake and I don’t know what happened in wardrobe but they went for it. Murder 7. Directed by Bryan Barber. David Banner came through. André 3000: The initial ideas that Bryan and I discussed were simply based around interesting ways to show a marriage scene. Bun B: Nothing was scripted. Kanye passed it to us, but BET didn’t give it to us. Andre shows up on the track before the beat actually drops, a trick that makes the most of his idiosyncratic sense of rhythm. Anthony Mundine has become the latest sportsman to slam the Australian Wallabies over their historic indigenous rendition of the national anthem against Argetina in Sydney on Saturday night. The cake was a wrap, the set was a wrap, the costumes and hair and all of that. BioWare’s Anthem game was always going to court controversy. Useless cameo-machine Bishop Don Magic Juan hogs precious seconds of screen-time like this was a Snoop Dogg video, and I sort of don’t like the way a UGK video somehow reduces Pimp C and Bun B to Andre’s supporting cast. But first, NFL: "It is an important issue. Bryan Barber: I mean, Dre’s one of my best friends. I don’t think anybody saw it coming. Honestly, if I’m correct, I was just coming out of church—because I had a suit and tie on and I don’t just ride around with a suit and tie on—and it was either Bun or Pimp. When did you start volunteering for SitD? The reward for the quarantine is freedom, relatively speaking, to go out in public to restaurants, cafes and shops. International Players Anthem by UGK feat OutKast. It was a good look. Black men that came together to make an anthem. Kanye had won, but while on stage Kanye called us up. He was a singer, he did everything, he put the order of the album together. It was hot, it wasn’t one of those mild L.A. days, it was like hot and this negro had on a white…well he had several minks, first of all. I remember when I first saw him before there were giving me the shoot downstairs and it’s him, Bishop Don Juan, you know all of the players and he had on this mink with the mink hat. The policy also gives players the option to stay in off-field locations, like their locker rooms, during the national anthem. That was that, man. I always want to know stuff, you know I want to know. All the pimps and players were there, I knew all of them, but hadn’t seen them in a while. Back then it was just how things went. 1. International Players Anthem 2. FOR MORE ON UGK's "INTERNATIONAL PLAYER'S ANTHEM VIDEO, GO TO THE NEXT PAGE. I just really hate that he wasn’t able to be there in the physical form. Trailer. Feds In Town 4. Diamonds & Wood 5. In the wake of many "Black Lives Matter" protests, a majority (52 %) of Americans now agree that it's okay for NFL players to kneel during the national anthem, according to Yahoo. I basically gave André and Bryan free reign to do whatever video they wanted to do. Bun B: It was just hilarious that [the girls] were actually going to that extent. I honestly can't remember. Bryan Barber: I really wanted [the girls] to go all out, pulling hair and throwing each other into the cake and really get physical and make it feel real. None of these are particularly laudable sentiments, but coming after Andre, they’re humanized, almost romantic. We put him front and center and then I kind of sat close to Pimp and the rest of the players, they just scattered all about. I didn’t get to shoot Slim Thug. But the funny thing about it was, he showed up with this polar bear white mink. Genres: Chopped and Screwed, Dirty South, Southern Hip Hop. [I’m a] friend of Bun’s. He’s not a guy who really does anything to make people happy necessarily. I knew that if I would have gotten regular girls to do that, they wouldn’t want to get their hair messy and stuff. Come on up and get the award," which I thought was big of Kanye. Khujo of Goodie Mob: I don’t think I had ever been in a video with UGK before, but I know Bun B was in our first “Cell Therapy” video. He don’t want to be in another video unless it’s an OutKast video, so until we do that, he don’t wanna just be doing videos with other people. They only had one shot to get that right. Face masks are mandatory indoors. It was an unusual start — sporadic volunteering while working with SPW on various video and photo projects. I came through and I can’t really sit up here and give you no type of exquisite story, but when certain people call you, you don’t ask no questions. That’s one of those magical moments. As iconic as it was to see all those Southern rappers in the movie, in the pimp world it was iconic to see Don Juan, Pimpin Ken. None of it was scripted. Who cares what the weather was? We had Chamillionaire in there, so we were in the video around some young Southern kings. OutKast having won Grammy of the year, Three 6 Mafia, Oscar winners. The song, probably my favorite single of the year thus far, plays on similar romantic impulses in similarly goofy ways. And I think that BET was like, “Oh, we should have gave them an award.” And then they came back and did it. Lil Uzi Vert Accused of Cultural Appropriation, Rappers Rapping as Kids in Throwback Videos, Read the Making of UGK's "International Player's Anthem" Here, Throwback Videos of Rappers Rapping When They Were Kids, Steve Mnuchin Silent On Trump Inciting Rioters to Hang Good Friend Mike Pen…, Dr. Jill Biden's Valentine to America Front and Center on White House …, Morgan Wallen's Apology Has Not Reversed Radio Boycott, J.J. Watt Released By Houston Texans In Stunning Move, 'Chappelle's Show' Back on Netflix, Dave Gets Millions from …, Morris Chestnut Hints at New Love Interest in 'Best Man' Series o…, LeBron James Masks Up For Fancy L.A. Bun B: It was bittersweet, a lot of these accolades came after [Pimp C] passing away. ICSE Podar International Nerul, Navi Mumbai Everybody is a big fan of everybody. Jun 29, 2015 2 Detective - True Detective Season 2 Episode 2 That was 15 years into all of our respective careers and we were all still here, still making money. for more on ugk's "international player's anthem video, go to the next page The Girl on Girl Fist/Food Fight Bun B: It was just hilarious that [the girls] were actually going to that extent. So apparently Jay-Z made a comment about that, which I didn’t appreciate. Bryan Barber: I based it all off wedding videos. Luckily, the final cast's auditions are included, so we can see what won the creators over in the first place. I was basically going off of the vibe of the first verse. Front, Back and Side to Side 9. Those were real conversations. Make sure to log onto XXLMag.com on Thursday June 8, as Bun B, André 3000, Big Boi, Juicy J, DJ Paul, and many more, remember the making of UGK's "International Player's Anthem (I Choose You)" video. I remember seeing him back there in the trailer with the white suit on with the white fur and the white hat on. The other side says that Andre has duped us all, that his long absence from rap made us miss him so badly that we’re falling all over ourselves to praise his rhythm-free mickey-mouse guest-spots; Al Shipley even went so far as to compare him to Murphy Lee. One Day 3. Quit Hatin' the South 8. It starts out with the Pimp C verse, tacking the serviceable verses from Paul and Juicy onto the end. It sort of dampened the track’s cinematic lilt to hear Pat talking about spending your child support money on it, and anyway it’s exactly the sort of warm, slow, organic track that generally works perfectly with Bun and Pimp’s thick, wizened voices. And went to the floor still swinging. Deray Davis: I pretty much knew everybody. That was interesting. They were really going for it, throwing the cake at each other and pushing each other. It had that country feel. You may also like 5 Videos. He agreed to do it. I think Snoop was supposed to come at one point. Players have become familiar with the so-called bio-secure bubbles at other tournaments, and had to endure a more stringent 14-day hotel quarantine after arriving in Australia on 17 charter jets. So it wasn't a matter of me picking this particular song to be a part of. DJ Paul: It was fun, man. We’re peers. About Rita. You had Gs then you had gangstas. So we was talking about experiences with women trying to convince or sway him one way or another. It’s like a mini movie really. International Players Anthem: I Choose You (2007) Epic Movie (2007) 50 First Dates (2004) Pimp and Bun won Best Video the following year at the BET Awards. Even if Pimp C is almost certainly not showing up to my wedding in a giant white fur hat, this thing looks like a whole lot of fun. But I liked it, man. So he was like, "Yo, check this out and you know how it is, not only is this their art form, but when you got all of these dudes' energy around and the vibe was just right, like they went in." Every time we passed it around, it was somethin' in that cup, man. For the man to come out and say that and make me feel proud…hearing Pastor Troy…me listening to them is what gave me the fuel to do what I did for Mississippi and I won’t sit up here and tell you no different than that. He does things he believes in. Then in May, 2019, ... Hamilton musical cast album. T-Pain was there and he showed love. That boy was in character right there, man. He really branded himself in that video. So you got to understand, by midnight, everybody’s live at that point. - The best guests at Andre 3000's fake wedding from that UGK video for International Players Anthem; Jul 7, 2015 You crazy for this one Ray! “I looked at Busta and I said, 'Definitely UGK should have won this,'" West said during his acceptance speech. 01:00. He called me and told me about the song, and wanted me to come up with something. That boy was in character all day that day, bro. Andre’s verse is happy and dazed and confused. If you're cool, you're just cool. Chamillionaire and Slim Thug, there was a lot of Southern cats in there. ... André Benjamin (as André Benjamin) DeRay Davis. He loved to wear mink coats in the summertime. Fonzworth Bentley: They were stunt women. I was definitely happy to hear Andre rapping again, and I really liked that he was making his big return alongside jokers like Jim Jones on pop-rap megaliths like “Walk It Out” and “Throw Some D’s,” treating his big return like it wasn’t even a big deal at all. Once again, it was about what friends might say when their buddy is making that walk. Bishop was cool with Pimp too. Bun B: I think a lot of things had a part to play in [André doing the video]. Bryan’s whole thing was, "Let me pitch it and I can get him to do it." One side of the debate has greeted Andre’s return with unqualified hosannas: one of the greatest rappers of all time finally rediscovering the joy in what he does best, figuring out that he’s better at putting verses together than he is at doing gallingly cutesy Prince impressions. It’s about falling in love, about diving headlong into the idea that you’ll never be single again and feeling vaguely smug about it. We are all brothers. André 3000: You have to remember that this song was years ago. From there, everything unfolds in a gorgeously sunny haze: Andre’s groomsmen goofily lip-sync his lyrics at him, more Southern rap luminaries make split-second cameos, two video-chicks inexplicably wrestle in the wedding cake. In terms of technical skill, the verses from Pimp and Bun and Big Boi all just bury Andre’s verse, but all of them need Andre’s verse to give them a grace they wouldn’t have had otherwise. He stayed for a minute. He knows Bryan understands the legacy, understands him as a person, knows what he will and won’t do.
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