City Lights

Album: Blackout 2 (2009)
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Songfacts®:

  • This is a collaboration with the hip-hop duo UGK. Pimp C's voice was sampled on the chorus. (The UGK rapper was found dead in his California hotel room in 2007). Method Man explained to MTV News: "[Red] had the record. It had Pimp C's hook on it. It was only right we put Bun B on it."

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