On today in Hip-Hop historical past, Houston’s personal UGK launched their second studio LP Tremendous Tight… Because the duo’s first challenge to make an look on the Billboard 200 chart, this album marked their transition from underground superstars to respectable Hip Hop legends within the making.
With this album, it’s apparent that the group had begun to refine its engineering talents. Their standard tough across the edges sounds high quality has been revamped permitting for cleaner vocals and crisper manufacturing. With the brand new high quality additionally got here a brand new fan base. Rap followers throughout the nation have been starting to acknowledge Hip Hop coming from the south as the brand new sound. The graceful southern type of Pimp C and Bun B was a nice change from the rising hardcore scene that was rising on the East Coast and pistol gripping gun-slinging gangster rap that got here from the West.
Commercially, the album was a breakthrough. Peaking at #95 on the Billboard 200 and promoting over 370,000 copies nationwide, Tremendous Tight… was UGK’s hottest album so far and arrange their rise to energy because the Kings of Texas rap.
