THREE 6 MAFIA CHAPTER 1 THE END SERIES WITH TRAP

Three 6 Mafia Chapter 1 The End Series With Trap

The rest is mostly garbage.Down to a trio after Lord Infamous was jailed, they enjoyed another commercialTheir most melodic album, that contains theHit singles Stay Fly, Poppin My Collar and Side 2 Side.The song It's Hard out Here for a Pimp (2006) was included in the soundtrack of John Singleton's film 'Hustle & Flow' and completed their crossover sellout.After Crunchy Black left to start a solo career withOn My Own (2006) and From Me to You (2007),Three 6 Mafia became simply the duo of DJ Paul and Juicy J, as documented onJuicy J released the solo album Hustle Till I Die (2009)As well as a dozen mixtapes between 20, notablyThe 'Rubba Band Business' series with trap producer Lex Luger, laterMost of Three 6 Mafia (DJ Paul, Crunchy Black, Koopsta Knicca, Lord Infamous and Gangsta Boo) reunited asDJ Paul, Crunchy Black and Koopsta Knicca recordedWatch What U Wish (2015), still credited to Da Mafia 6iX although theyJuicy J had his own best-selling album, Stay Trippy (2013), with the club anthems Bandz a Make Her Dance and Bounce,Lord Infamous released many solo albums that explored gothic stories:Lord Infamous died in 2013 at the age of 40.Crunchy Black's new album was Money Ain't Nothing To Play With (2015).DJ Paul's new albums were Master of Evil (2015) and Power Pleasure & Painful Things (2019). It was the year that(Lil Scrappy's No Problem, Crime Mob's Knuck If You Buck).The first three songs of the album could have been a decent EP. They wereLumped into the southern hip-hop movement, a sort ofMemphis counterpart to Texas' DJ Screw and UGK(especially DJ Screw's psychedelic sound) except that theirLyrics, inspired by horror movies, indulged in demonic and generallyThe songs actually didn't stick to one style but rather explored aThe gangsta rap of Break Da Law '95 (a DJ Paul solo song)To the mellow and dreamy Da Summa (with a refrain reminiscent ofSan Francisco's acid-rock of the 1960s), which is cloud-rap ante-litteram,From the suspenseful horrorcore of Live By Yo Rep andTear Da Club Up (replete with John Carpenter-style piano figures)From the orchestral funk-soul shuffle Long Nite toFrom the ghostly Sweet Robbery (funereal rapping and rattling noises)To the Satanic Fuckin Wit Dis Click (Lord Infamous' apex).The slow, ominous, creepy beats engineered by DJ Paul and Juicy JConcoct a nightmarish atmosphere that seems more related toThis album popularized in Memphis the 'trap' style that8Ball & MJG had already introduced on On the Outside Looking In (1994),And that would spread around the nation a few years later.Three 6 Mafia also launched the subgenre of Memphis crunk with theDeeper, fuller, bottom-heavy production of the albumThe End (1996) that features the propulsive Gette'm Crunk,A natural evolution from the proto-crunk ofThe album's standouts are the rapping mayhem of Body Parts,And especially the piano-driven suspense of Late Night Tip,Although the most elegant and effective production trick might be theHissing 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).Was the commercial sell-out of their horrorcore,With a new version of Tear The Club Up (which now became a hit),Late Nite Tip (ditto) and a new version of Body Parts.It includes catchy bangers like Hit a Muthafucka and Spill My BloodGangsta Boo launched his solo career withEnquiring Minds II - The Soap Opera (2003).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.The mixtape Underground Vol 3 - Kings of Memphis (2000) containsMemphis (Remix) and Powder (The Higher Version).Their commercial success increased exponentially with the 22-trackWhen the Smoke Clears - Sixty 6 Sixty 1 (2000) that containsThe hit Sippin' on Some Syrup and a colossal amount of filler.Choices (2001) is the soundtrack to a video made by J Paul and Juicy J,Which had a sequel a few years later, Choices II - The Setup (2005).Pared down to a quartet after Gangsta Boo's departure, Three 6 Mafia(Lord Infamous, Crunchy Black, DJ Paul and Juicy J)Became world stars with Da Unbreakables (2003), or, better, with itsMega-hit Ridin' Spinners. In between Lord Infamous released his Solo Tape (1994).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 releasedThe first official album, Mystic Stylez (1995). Pimpin' and Robbin' is the standout.At the same time Koopsta Knicca released his first solo album,Underground Vol 1 - 1991-1994 (1999) is a compilation of early material,Notably the gangsta rap Ridin' da Chevy and the horrorcore of Playa Hataz and Walk Up to Your House.Underground Vol 2 - Club Memphis (1999) collects more, but of lower quality.DJ Paul cleaned up an old 1993 tape to create Underground Volume 16 - For da Summ (2002) andJuicy J cleaned up a 1994 tape to create Chronicles of the Juice Man (2002).DJ Paul and Juicy J jointly assembled the mixtapesVol 3 Spring Mix '95 (1995), an elegant demonstration of their skills.DJ Paul also produced Lord Infamous' cassettesCome With Me 2 Hell II - Lords of Terror (1995), which probablyRemains his best solo effort.