Sure, Drake's Thank Me Later has finally hit stores, but there are plenty of other rap albums we're looking forward to, and one of them is Bun B's upcoming Trill OG, slated for August 3rd. Bun B stopped by our offices and let us get a sneak peek at one of the tracks, "Right Now," which features Trey Songz, the late great Pimp C, and even a verse from Tupac Shakur. Read below to find out how the song came together and also Bun's thoughts on his buddy Drake's first-week numbers—and how they could have been better.
As Told to Insanul "Incilin" Ahmed
On how "Right Now" came together...
It's produced by Steve Bilo, a protégé of Pimp's. It was originally recorded as a live verse and a chorus. My verse is from this year, Pimp C's verse is from the 2000 decade, and Pac's verse is from the '90s. Pac's verse was already there. We gave the producer the tempo. We stripped the track bare. It wasn't like the track was created and the verse had to fit on it. So we just built a beat around the same tempo that the verse was already recorded to. If I had to guess, [Pac's verse] had to be from before the Death Row beef or it has to be around when he started putting together [One Nation], when he had Boot Camp and all of those people. In the song he's talking about being in New York, walking down 125th, and being at the Puerto Rican Day Parade. Really, it was killing me. It took everything in me to not leak just a piece of it during the Puerto Rican parade. I was just looking at it like, "Fuck, the song should've been out yesterday."
On Thank Me Later's first week numbers...
It's amazing that people can look at 400,000-plus records sold in a week and feel indifferent, especially in this climate that we're in right now. I think it's extraordinary. But I do think that it could have been better, actually. I think there were a couple of key markets that they didn't really take advantage of, like television. I don't mean like, do TV shows, but Drake should have been on The View. He should have been performing on ABC summer series or something.
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