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DJ Squeeky cued up the “Lookin’ for da Chewin'” instrumental, and Kingpin Skinny Pimp says he was the first to finish his verse to the track, a lusty ode to oral sex. In 1993, Kingpin Skinny Pimp was in a room with a slew of rappers and DJ Squeeky, an innovative producer and the first person he “heard make those hard beats” with the rapid hi-hats that would come to define southern hip-hop and eventually much of the rest of pop as well. “I had some of everybody’s type of flow.” He also nods to other local stars: Pretty Tony, Gangsta Pat, Al Kapone, Homicide, and Lil Ced. He “had this unique-ass voice,” Kingpin Skinny Pimp explains. To form his own style, the aspiring MC drew from everything he liked, from MC Ren - “He had a little tongue twist I took the tongue twist longer” - to a local rapper named Psycho.

“Anybody who could sound close to the Fat Boys, they were the dopest.”

“We used to walk home from school every day beat-boxing and stuff,” Kingpin Skinny Pimp recalls. Kingpin Skinny Pimp began rapping back in the mid-1980s, listening to groups like the Fat Boys as well as local underground hip-hop from 8ball & MJG and Pretty Tony. I feel like I’m the dopest MC that’s unknown.” I’m like, ‘let me rap on one of your songs.’ They’re like, ‘man, I’m good.’ Then I show ’em all these young folks their age, every race you can name, dancing off my shit. “I have a recording studio, and when young people come through, they don’t know who I am. The enduring appeal of Memphis hip-hop and the vagaries of internet algorithms have combined to bring Kingpin Skinny Pimp to a fresh young digital audience at age 45. Russian producers were going viral with a gnashing, low-to-the-ground sound called phonk which relied heavily on samples of vintage Memphis rap tapes, and Kingpin Skinny Pimp heard his work repurposed in Lxst Century’s gleaming “Odium” - which has walloped its way to more than 22 million streams on Spotify alone - and Kaito Shoma’s “Scary Garry,” a spooky cut with nearly 24 million Spotify streams.įlashback: Tina Turner Covers Dolly Parton, Kris Kristofferson on Debut Solo Album Not long after the rise of the #NotTheThermometer challenge, Kingpin Skinny Pimp also learned that his music was a key component in hits originating many thousands of miles from Memphis. Last fall, a snippet of his voice from the classic Nineties track “Lookin’ for da Chewin'” - the exclamation, “aw, not the thermometer!” - enjoyed a viral moment on TikTok, soundtracking more than a million fleet-footed dance videos. It’s been a good few months for Kingpin Skinny Pimp, a Memphis rap pioneer who has never earned the same widespread recognition of other hometown heroes like Three 6 Mafia and 8ball & MJG.

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