Editing UGK (section)

==Background==
Originally from Port Arthur, Texas UGK members Pimp and Bun were from the same town as [[Janis Joplin]] and [[Robert Rauschenberg]]. Though the town of 60,000 has a significant African American population, it was not known for its rap scene. They called themselves "Underground Kingz" because their [[country rap]] style was so full of "slang and twang" they thought it was inaccessible for outsiders. UGK blended "deep [[blues|bluesy]] texures, triumphant church organs, thick [[funk]] and meaty [[soul (music)|soul]]".<ref name=chicago>{{cite book |last=Westoff |first=Ben |title=Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop |date=2011 |publisher=Chicago Review Press |isbn=978-1569766064 |page=72 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pgc6mAEACAAJ |access-date=3 August 2019}}</ref> 

Bun's rap style was described as a "speeding-train delivery" with lyrics that "feel sanded-down and coated by heavy lacquer". Born Bernard Freeman, his childhood nickname "Bunny" was shortened to Bun.<ref name=chicago /> 

Pimp, or Chad Butler, is the son of a trumpet player and has had an interest in music since childhood: "I come from a classical background, I came up singing [[Italian sonnets]], [[Negro spirituals]], and shit of that nature." Even before studying [[musical notation]] in school he learned to play many instruments by ear including piano, trumpet, drums and flugelhorn. His vocal style is of a "high-voiced, unstable and provocateur, as likely to slap your face as to sing you a love song". Influenced by [[Run-DMC]], he started [[Synthesizer|synthesizing]] beats to rap over after receiving a [[drum machine]] and [[Musical keyboard|keyboard]] one Christmas. Following the advice of Pimp's stepfather to "put some music in that shit", Pimp decided to move beyond Run-DMC's [[bass drum|kick]]-[[snare drum|snare]] formula also known as [[boom bap]], building on this by replacing the [[drum]] [[Timbre|sound]] specifically with the [[Roland TR-808]] and supplementing the [[Cymbal|cymbals]] with mainly the [[Hi-hat|hi-hats]], which added another important [[Drum beat|rhythmic layer]] to the whole thing..<ref name=chicago />