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His head faces down and stares at the screen. He plays around with his phone as he sits – placing his earpiece in his ear and scrolling through a playlist. He takes a deep breath as he steps offstage and stares outside the club’s entrance. He is somewhat exhausted now yet pensive.

He wraps up his soundcheck on the catwalk stage at The Masquerade, a gritty rock club, with Cory Mo, one of his longtime collaborators.īun (nee Bun Beater or Big Bun B-Da) has his black fitted cap turned back as he paces in his flip flops, footie socks, white v-neck tee and blue cargo shorts. It’s an hour and a half before Atlanta’s installment of Red Bull EmSee: The Road To 8 Mile, a seven-city freestyle competition, which features Bun as a judge and guest performer. The effort is considered yet another classic in his almost 20-year catalog – earning the coveted five mics honor, the first in a five-year gap since Lil’ Kim’s The Naked Truth but the first in his career, from The Source Magazine, considered to be a rare accomplishment for the canon of hip hop albums. The hip hop icon rehearses 'Let ‘Em Know,' his long overdue collaboration with famed producer DJ Premier (also a fellow Texan), from his third album, Trill OG. Then, a commanding and majestic voice echoes from the mic: “Bun is on the mic/Premier is on the track/The South is in the house/Now what can f**k with that?/ And what can f**k with this?/ I take shots and don’t f**kin’ miss.” The bars are quite an understatement considering the delivery is from a thought-provoking, provocative and sought after voice – from no other than Bun B. The sounds blare so hard, even the graffiti inside the speakers vibrates a tad. Eerie, haunting music with a heavy bass line, deep cuts and scratches and hard-hitting snares booms from the speakers. The paint peels from either aging or from the sounds bouncing off the surface. Now considered an icon for a generation of contemporary hip hop artists, the Texas-based rapper/intellectual, almost entering his second decade, is blessed with the good life: a critically herald third album, a keen understanding of his fans, tenure at a university, a stable family, multiple deals on the table and an iconic career that most rap artists could only imagine. Along with his late partner, Pimp C., their pioneering group, UGK, sets the tone for Southern rap and hip hop to become a dominant force in pop music. is one of hip hop’s most incredible MCs regardless of regional affiliation.