His voice and expressions are like no other.' 'He has all the ingredients it takes to be a superstar. 'He's in a class by himself,' said James Prince, founder and chief executive officer of Rap-A-Lot Records. Rap-A-Lot records released the album under their new distribution deal with Asylum and the Warner Music Group. The album, like those during his days with UGK, is full of brash tales about money, cars and women, sprinkled with drug references and delivered with profanity-laced lyrics in his rich southern drawl. 1136592, with the easy laugh and endless, 'Yes, Ma'am's,' comes across as far more of a gentleman. Stripped of the accouterments that fame and wealth bring, he's not the royalty he was as Pimp C, the underground king. He began an eight-year sentence in January 2002 and will be eligible for parole in December. He was charged after brandishing a gun during an argument with a woman at a mall. It's the rapper's first solo album after selling well over 1 million records since 1992 from five major-label releases with UGK.īut then he fell behind on the community service required after he pleaded no contest to aggravated assault. 'Had I been out there none of that stuff would have made it to the record.'

'I'm not talking down on the producers that worked on the record, but can't nobody do me like I do me,' he said. 3 on the rap charts, and he barely recognized the two songs he caught on the radio as his own.

Pimp C, whose real name is Chad Butler, said he hasn't heard the album, which debuted at No. 8 on Billboard magazine's latest list of top rap albums. Even without his support or any of the usual hype that accompanies an album release, Pimp C's record sits at No. 'The Sweet James Jones Stories' was created from a series of freestyle raps he did years ago that Houston-based Rap-A-Lot Records turned into the 14-track album. Like they trying to make a post-mortem album.' 'It just hurts my stomach to think that some dudes were sitting around producing my songs and taking freestyle raps and making songs out of them,' Pimp C, half of the celebrated southern rap duo Underground Kingz or UGK, told The Associated Press in a March jailhouse interview.

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