Paul Wall: “What you know about swangers and voguesīun B: “They don’t know about bumper grill Paul Wall and Bun B co-star on the song and both get HELLA dirty: There are a lot of great tracks on this seventy minute long, 17 track deep album but one of my personal favorites is the extra hard mashing “They Don’t Know” on track number two. He’s as Southern as the Dirty South gets, balling just as hard as the best of them. In fact it’s hard to get any heavier than his opening track “I’m a Playa,” produced by and featuring Southern icons Three 6 Mafia. In his own way Paul Wall is doing the same thing, only his voice is a lot deeper and his style is a lot heavier. And that’s no disrespect to Eminem either, because he still proves himself as a lyricist and freestyler each time out, making people forget his appearance and take his rap serious. Wall is more than happy to be ugly though, because sometimes it’s a lot easier to get respect looking like a poster child for dental abuse than it is to be a bleached blonde pretty boy like Eminem.
In fact with no disrespect intended to Wall, I’ll be damned if that’s not one of the UGLIEST album covers I can ever recall looking at.
One look at his grill full of diamonds on the front cover of “The Peoples Champ” shows he ain’t tryin’ to be a rap pretty boy.
One thing’s for sure about Wall, he’s not frontin’ at all. By the time Wall proclaims at the end of his verse that he’s “got the internet goin nuts” it’s pretty much accurate – it’s hard as hell to figure out how this loco gringo got so damn crunk and funky. Woodgrain all in my range, drippin stains when I switch lanes”įor those who weren’t already familiar with Paul Wall in the Southern underground from albums like “Get Ya Mind Correct,” this verse in Mike Jones’ smash hit crossover track “Still Tippin'” definitely put Houston’s dirtiest white boy on the map. I’m a player ain’t no doubt hoes want to know what I’m boutīiggest diamonds off in my mouth, princess cuts all in my chain I got eighty-fo’s, pokin out, at the club I’m showin out People’s feelings get hurt when they figure out what I’m worth I’m crawlin similar to a ant cause I’m low to the earth My chain light up like a lamp cause now I’m back with the camp “What it do it’s Paul Wall I’m the people’s champ The high production values don't dilute any of the album's swagger, however, making THE PEOPLE'S CHAMP the perfect match for a boomin' system in the trunk of one of the city's famed "draped-up and dripped-out" rides. The album's first single, "Sittin' Sidewayz," is a case in point, with Salih Williams's top-notch production providing the perfect context for Wall's skills on the mic.His 2005 release THE PEOPLE'S CHAMP (released concurrently with a Chopped and Screwed remix version), finds its home in the beats and party themes that typify the Dirty South style, with plenty of woozy tempos, brain-bending samples, and rapid-fire raps drawled smooth and easy. Houston's place on the hip-hop map was beginning to gain focus by the mid 2000s, and rapper Paul Wall-of iced out grill fame-was at the forefront of that effort.
Audio Mixers: Sanchez "RockHead" Holmes KLC Michael Foster.Personnel: Paul Wall (rap vocals) Freeway, Kanye West, Mike Jones, T.I., Three 6 Mafia, Big Pokey, Trey Songz, Bun B (rap vocals) Corey "Funky Fyngas" Stoot (guitar).