"Big Pimpin," Jay-Z

[eric]

A classic song from the year 2000.

It had a not so impressive #32 peak on CHR/POP, but spent 20 weeks on. Anyone have the run?

It still sounds so fresh and of course great video. LOL

His lower peaking singles (on CHR/POP):

Hard Knock Life #47
I Just Wanna Love You #49
Girls, Girls, Girl #41
Excuse Me Miss #47
99 Problems #37

Of course his biggest hit was "Crazy in Love" (#1) with Beyonce followed by "03 Bonnie and Clyde" (#6) with Beyonce and "Numb/Encore" (#12) with Linkin Park.

[A Thug Named Slickback]

One of my favorite Jay-Z singles. Timbaland does it yet again!

[Rob64]

It samples an arabic song that I love. I like this.

[🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾]

I really liked this song! It was just a lot of fun. Great rap and great beats!

rob64 said:

It samples an arabic song that I love. I like this.

Which song does this sample? I have been wondering for some time now.

[eric]

eros said:

rob64 said:

It samples an arabic song that I love. I like this.

Which song does this sample? I have been wondering for some time now.

Hossam Ramzy - Khusara Khusara

[tico]

I like this one a lot, but not my favorite Jay-Z song. That goes to "Can I Get A..."

[The Music Man]

My theme song, of course.

Uh, not...

Anyway, I'd say that this was one of Jay-Z's best. Only "99 Problems" rivals it, as misogynist as this is...

[A Thug Named Slickback]

themusicman said:

Only "99 Problems" rivals it, as misogynist as this is...

LOL! And don't forget about "Is That Your B!tch"!!

[cartman2002]

Big Pimpin reached #18 on the Hot 100 in 2000

[johnnywest]

Puke. I give this song a turkey.

[WotUNeed]

Haven't heard this song in a while. Liked it a lot at the time

[somelikeitwhen]

It did better on AT40 during the 24/7 takeover.

[BillboardBoy]

Mediocre at best.

[busyboy]

I love it! Too bad Jigga and Timbo got sued over it.

allhiphop.com/blogs/news/archive/2007/09/04/18531856.aspx

[Tha Kid Wit Tha Flow]

Loved this song.

[B-Boy]

I loved it.

[halo19]

Loved this song at the time. I realize it has a lot of the main clichés in a mainstream hip-hop hit, but it's always been quite the jam with me. Timbaland's hot beat's probably a big factor.

[Deleted]

I tried so hard to like this but I just don't.

[Live Your Life]

Classic.

[owenlovesmusic]

Great song. A Jay-Z classic.

[🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲]

I remember hearing this song on the radio alot back then, lol

[B-Boy]

Jun 13, 2018 2:26:17 GMT -5 🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 said:

I remember hearing this song on the radio alot back then, lol

This song stayed on the radio for over a year. lol.

Here are some fun facts:

Pimp C disliked the beat. It was too pop. He didn’t feel like giving Jay-Z a full 16. lol. Him and Bun B shot the video at a separate location, Houston I believe.

Jay-Z recorded a second verse for the single version because he got upstaged by UGK.

[disman00911]

One of Jay-Z's better songs although I'm burned out with anything Jay-Z related.  I heard this often on WGCI and B96 when it first came out.

[🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲]

#306 on Billboard's 500 Greatest Pop Songs

You Know What It Is: Jay-Z, Bun B and Pimp C’s yacht-sized early-’00s party jam, the trio goading one another to ever-higher levels of quotability over a once-in-a-lifetime (well, for anyone besides Timbaland) beat.

These Words: Could go for days here, but the starkest for Jay-Z after 15 years of marriage to one of the world’s most famous female icons: “Me give my heart to a woman?/ Not for nothin’, never happen/ I’ll be forever mackin’/ Heart cold as assassins, I got no passion.” (“What kind of animal would say this sort of thing?” Jay wondered to the Wall Street Journal in 2010. “Reading it is really harsh.”)

Sign ‘o’ the Times: The turn of the century was about the last time that your new single being “MTV Jam of the Week” was an honor worth preemptively boasting about as Jay does here.