Willie Hutch

Of course, this is UGK's International Players Anthem, a classic record that unites two hip-hop duos for a four-verse masterclass in contrasting perspectives and styles.

The track's production revolves around a sample of Willie Hutch's 1973 track, I Choose You, a song about Hutch falling for a woman and choosing her to be his wife.

Thematically, UGK and OutKast riff on the idea of choosing, with each of the four international players offering a different perspective.

Pimp C brags about women choosing him, Bun B tries to convince a woman to choose him, and Big Boy warns about choosing carefully, because some women might only be after your money.

Right now, here's the three pieces of track called I Need You Girl on the Northern Soul Hour.

Mr. Willie Hutch.

Remember to ask him to listen, Shore Pants.

Love runs out.

And all across the nation, baby, it's sweeping on down.

That's Willie Hutch.

The

duck.

That's Willie Hutch.

And we've not played this next one for a long, long time.

This one's the toys.

I dig the message, and I know you do, too.

Willie Hutch, taken from the maggots, called Brothers Are Gonna Work It Out.

Preceded by yours truly, with every brother, ain't a brother.

This is Gary Bird at 111 from WWRL with the GBE.

Uh, I mean, yeah, I was only one when it come out, but, uh, what an album it was.

A little bit of Friday Night Willie from, uh, Willie Hutch.

The album was called Soul Portrait, and, uh, we're gonna kick off the, uh, the tune with Ain't Gonna Stop.

[upbeat music]

Oh, I'm lucky to be loved, loved by you, baby.

Lucky to be loved by you.

Curtis's long play of the week this week, Willie Hutch, Soul Portrait.

What a wonderful album that was.

Very quiet out there today.

Here's some Willie Hutch.

Now once a wise man said to me, son you can be what you want to be, ambition true and patience long, and with God's help how can you go on? Then he looked at me and he said, easy does it, every time, you'd be surprised what's gonna happen, my son, once you gain control of your mind.

You've

I'll tell you easy, easy, easy, easy, easy, easy, easy, easy, easy, easy.

Not ever ever paying some dues Someone's got to win And somebody's got to lose Break down your concentration.

Some wonderful mid-tempo soul, Willie Hutch.

Easy does it.

And she was one half of the 90s duo called Floetry.

And then we're going to go with my man Willie Hutch off his 1996 album.

Which I said was 40 years old a couple of weeks ago.

And I knew damn well it was 30 years old.

This is just a little ditty called Through the Window, which I can see right through now.

That's how windows work.

[laughs] Um, up after this one, we're gonna go with some more Willie Hutch.

Last time I was here, I played that '96 album, and I saw that he had a final album in 2002, which I said I'll check out, which I did, and this is my pick from it, uh, R- Rock This House, and the album was called Saxolicious.

That's damn good shit.

With that Willie, with that Willie Hutch playing in the background.

That Willie Hutch was-

I choose you.

She said, "I choose you."

That's my nigga

...

I th- I thought he was my nigga Willie D, since that at first.

... of the samples, back when you could buy physical copies and you could see.

Like, I'm a huge Three 6 Mafia fan, but they sampled a lot of Willie Hutch.

So I would love the s- the, the music, the production, and I'm like, "What is this sample?" I would go buy the, the sample.

I'm like, then I fell in love with Willie Hutch.

Willie Hutch is one of my favorite artists.

The way he writes songs, it's poetry, it's love songs, it's heartbreak, and this is during the '70s and early '80s.

But this is what the great Grandmaster Caz said it perfectly.

The next one's also a love song.

It's Baby Come Home by Willie Hutch.

I found this song over the summer.

It was playing in the morning.