(Lil Scrappy's No Problem, Crime Mob's Knuck If You Buck). (Lord Infamous, Crunchy Black, DJ Paul and Juicy J)īecame world stars with Da Unbreakables (2003), or, better, with its Pared down to a quartet after Gangsta Boo's departure, Three 6 Mafia Which had a sequel a few years later, Choices II - The Setup (2005). The hit Sippin' on Some Syrup and a colossal amount of filler.Ĭhoices (2001) is the soundtrack to a video made by J Paul and Juicy J, When the Smoke Clears - Sixty 6 Sixty 1 (2000) that contains Their commercial success increased exponentially with the 22-track Memphis (Remix) and Powder (The Higher Version). The mixtape Underground Vol 3 - Kings of Memphis (2000) contains Under the moniker Tear Da Club Up Thugz, the original trio of DJ Paul, Juicy J and Lord Infamous released the very crunk album CrazyNDaLazDayz (1999), which contains Juicy J's anthem Slob On My Knob. Gangsta Boo launched his solo career withĮnquiring Minds II - The Soap Opera (2003). It includes catchy bangers like Hit a Muthafucka and Spill My Blood Late Nite Tip (ditto) and a new version of Body Parts. With a new version of Tear The Club Up (which now became a hit), Was the commercial sell-out of their horrorcore, Hissing keyboards of Last Man Standing (apparently inspired by a feud with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, a Ohio group of rappers who actually sounded very similar to Three 6 Mafia). The album's standouts are the rapping mayhem of Body Parts,Īnd especially the piano-driven suspense of Late Night Tip,Īlthough the most elegant and effective production trick might be the The End (1996) that features the propulsive Gette'm Crunk,Ī natural evolution from the proto-crunk of Three 6 Mafia also launched the subgenre of Memphis crunk with theĭeeper, fuller, bottom-heavy production of the album This album popularized in Memphis the "trap" style thatĨBall & MJG had already introduced on On the Outside Looking In (1994),Īnd that would spread around the nation a few years later. The slow, ominous, creepy beats engineered by DJ Paul and Juicy JĬoncoct a nightmarish atmosphere that seems more related to To the Satanic Fuckin Wit Dis Click (Lord Infamous' apex). Tear Da Club Up (replete with John Carpenter-style piano figures)įrom the orchestral funk-soul shuffle Long Nite toįrom the ghostly Sweet Robbery (funereal rapping and rattling noises) San Francisco's acid-rock of the 1960s), which is cloud-rap ante-litteram,įrom the suspenseful horrorcore of Live By Yo Rep and To the mellow and dreamy Da Summa (with a refrain reminiscent of The gangsta rap of Break Da Law '95 (a DJ Paul solo song) The songs actually didn't stick to one style but rather explored a Lyrics, inspired by horror movies, indulged in demonic and generally (especially DJ Screw's psychedelic sound) except that their Memphis counterpart to Texas' DJ Screw and UGK Lumped into the southern hip-hop movement, a sort of The first official album, Mystic Stylez (1995). Having become a sextet with the addition of rappers Koopsta Knicca (Robert Phillips), Crunchy Black (Darnell Carlton) and Gangsta Boo (Lola Mitchell), they changed name to Three 6 Mafia and released In between Lord Infamous released his Solo Tape (1994). Vol 3 Spring Mix '95 (1995), an elegant demonstration of their skills.ĭJ Paul also produced Lord Infamous' cassettesĬome With Me 2 Hell II - Lords of Terror (1995), which probably Juicy J cleaned up a 1994 tape to create Chronicles of the Juice Man (2002).ĭJ Paul and Juicy J jointly assembled the mixtapes Underground Vol 2 - Club Memphis (1999) collects more, but of lower quality.ĭJ Paul cleaned up an old 1993 tape to create Underground Volume 16 - For da Summ (2002) and Notably the gangsta rap Ridin' da Chevy and the horrorcore of Playa Hataz and Walk Up to Your House. Underground Vol 1 - 1991-1994 (1999) is a compilation of early material, Pimpin' and Robbin' is the standout.Īt the same time Koopsta Knicca released his first solo album, The lo-fi, murky production and the sleepy, foggy rhythm makes the songs sound drugged. Smoked Out Loced Out (1994), when they still called themselves Triple Six Mafia. Memphis' Three 6 Mafia, formed around the trio of When the Smoke Clears - Sixty 6, Sixty 1 (2000), 5/10 Tear Da Club Up Thugz: CrazyNDaLazDayz (1999), 6/10 ( Copyright © 2006 Piero Scaruffi | Terms of use)Ĭhapter 2 - World Domination (1997), 6/10 Three 6 Mafia: biography, discography, review, links