Bun B

Bernard James Freeman, known professionally as Bun B is an American rapper. He is best known as one half of the Southern rap duo UGK, which he formed in 1987 alongside Pimp C.

Port Arthur's Bun B spent the '90s building Southern rap's most durable blueprint alongside Pimp C in UGK, a partnership that transformed Houston's underground into a blueprint for trap music's future. After the tragic loss of Pimp C in 2007, Bun B refused to let the legacy calcify, instead channeling grief into a solo career that proved he was never just the other half—*Trill* and *II Trill* established him as a fully realized artist with his own narrative weight. His influence runs deep through contemporary rap not because of chart dominance but because he represented something rappers still chase: the authentic Southern hustler with a poet's vocabulary and unshakeable regional pride.