In an interview with XXL magazine in 2012 Juicy J, the producer of both tracks, broke down how “Choose U” inspired Pimp C while in prison:

The beat was on Project Pat’s Layin' da Smack Down album, you know, when Project Pat was in jail, and [the album] did like 300,000 copies or could be Gold now. His first album went Platinum, but he kept goin' back and forth to jail, so the second one went, like, Gold. Pimp C loved a song called ‘Choose U.’ When Pimp C got out of jail, he was like, ‘I want that same record that was on Project Pat’s album.’ We [had] put that record out as a single [at first], but Sony didn’t push it ‘cause Pat was in jail, so it didn’t do anything. Pimp said he wanted that same beat and [didn’t want] to change nothin’.

Underground Kingz member Bun B added:

I didn’t initially understand it. I had been down that road before where Pimp heard music and was like, ‘We need to use it.’ And I was like, ‘Man, I don’t know.’ We had a bad experience with that one time. First of all, let me say this. I don’t think a lot of people know that Project Pat was probably one of Pimp C’s top three rappers, period. So anything Project Pat-related he was always the first to buy it, support it and crank it. When he came home that’s all he was screamin'—that Pat had this song on his album called ‘Choose U’ and the beat was attractive, but [Sony] didn’t really promote it.

When he came home he was like, ‘Man, I love this song and it was a hit and [Sony] didn’t promote that muthafucka like they should have.’ That’s all he kept sayin', that [it] was a hit record. I was like, ‘There’s nothin’ you can do about that,‘ but he was like, 'I want to rap to that muthafucka.’ I said, ‘You got to be kiddin’. You can’t rap to this dude’s song. His album just came out. It hasn’t been out that long. It was one of the albums that he got when he was locked up and listenin' to. He said trust me, ‘I’m gonna call [DJ] Paul tomorrow.’ So, he called Paul and reached out to explain that he wanted to do the song. He was like, ‘Man, we got a big budget and I’m gonna make sure we break some bread and do the song.’ They were all for it. Project Pat wasn’t trippin'.