It was released in 1998 as the second single from his debut major label studio album Sittin' Fat Down South.
(Fat Pat's verse originally appeared on the Mass 187 song "So Real So Tight" on the Krooked City album in 1997;[5] his posthumous 2001 greatest hits album featured the song as the 9th track under the slightly altered title "Wanna Be A Balla"[6].)
On May 1, 2006, Big Hawk, who filled in for his brother Fat Pat for the video shoot, was also murdered.
Big T, who contributed vocals for the song's hook, died May 8, 2018, of a suspected heart attack.
[7] Yungstar, a Houston-area mixtape legend, and Lil Troy are the only survivors, with Yungstar still active performing and featuring on other artist's songs while Lil Troy became a truck driver, forming Birklett Trucking Company.