Song · Jay-Z
“Big Pimpin'” by Jay-Z featuring UGK
From the album Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter (1999) Featuring UGK
“Big Pimpin'” by Jay-Z featuring UGK appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2004 and 2025. It was first released in 1999 on the album Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter. Its best result is #93 on the Q101 Top 300 Party Songs of All-Time (July 2004). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #7,577 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"Big Pimpin'" closed out the singles from Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter, Jay-Z's fourth studio album, coming out as the third of them in 2000 with the Southern hip-hop duo UGK riding along as guests. Timbaland produced it, building the track on a looped sample of "Khosara Khosara", a song composed by Baligh Hamdi in 1957 and sung by the Egyptian vocalist Abdel Halim Hafez, and that loop gives the whole thing its hypnotic, rolling sway.
Jay-Z, Timbaland, Bun B, Chad Butler and Kyambo "Hip Hop" Joshua share the writing credit, and Jimmy Douglass and Chauncey Mahan recorded and mixed it for Roc-A-Fella.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 93 | Q101 | Q101 Top 300 Party Songs of All-Time (July 2004) | 300 |
| 2024 | 924 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2025 | 106 | WFPK | WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s | 500 |
Also listed as: Big Pimpin.
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