[WATCH] Andre 3000 Recalls Pimp C Being Mad At His “Int’l Players Anthem” Verse

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While appearing on LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s The Shop series, Outkast’s Andre 3K reflected on the late Texas rapper being “really mad” at him when he submitted his verse for the 2007 hit.

“Rest in peace Pimp [C], but I got a [funny] story about that,” André said when co-host Paul Rivera asked him about his verse on the song. “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.”

“When I sent it back to them, Pimp was like, ‘Fuck this muthafucka, man! This n-gga done goddamn took my beat out! Who the fuck he think he is?!’ So he was really mad at the choice that I had made to take the beat [out]. I don’t know if it was Bun 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. So it worked, and once he got that, he was like, ‘Okay, okay.’ But he was so mad at me.”

Veteran A&R Jeff Sledge previously told this story on an episode of ItsTheReal’s A Waste of Time podcast in 2016.

“When André sent his piece back and had no drums, [Pimp C] was pissed off,” he explained. “He was like ‘Fuck André, man! How the fuck is he gonna send my shit back and take my drums out? Fuck that.’ He was going off about André taking the drums out. 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.’

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Latto Delivers A Scorching Freestyle Over UGK’s ‘Int’l Players Anthem’

Ahead of her upcoming sophomore album, 777, Latto stopped by Hot 97. During her visit, she delivered some hot bars for Funkmaster Flex’s Freestyle Session. For her freestyle, the “Big Energy” rapper was given the instrumental to UGK’s “Int’l Players Anthem.”

During her freestyle, she boasts about her riches (“Got your record deal on my key ring”), alludes to the song’s original collaborators, specifically a particular Outkast member (“My boots Andre, they cost a cool 3000”), and reminds us that she doesn’t need a ghostwriter (“Y’all ain’t never heard a verse from me that I ain’t f*ckin’ wrote”).

Of course, in true Latto fashion, her freestyle isn’t short of randy one-liners and double entendres: “Ride wood good, that’s why I should’ve been on Roll Bounce.”

777‘s tracklist boasts an impressive line-up collaborators, including 21 Savage, Nardo Wick, Childish Gambino, Lil Wayne, Kodak Black, and a yet-to-be announced guest on the “Big Energy” remix. Despite pulling in several big names for the album, Latto recently shared that a male collaborator, whom she chose not to name, almost didn’t clear a feature for the album because she didn’t respond to his DM on Instagram.

Despite her competitive energy on her freestyle, Latto maintains that she doesn’t have beef with any of her fellow female rappers.

Check out Latto’s Funkmaster Flex Freestyle above.

777 is out 3/25 via RCA. Pre-save it here.