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denke das wäre das beste ! schade aber so langsam scheint ihre zeit vorbei zu sein als rapper.

warum macht jetzt eigentlich jedes Arsch was mit AKON?! Eminem, Bone Thugs, 3-6, meine ganzen Helden von früher

Lord Infamous Interview by Scott Bejda
Continued from Murder Dog volume 15 #1

Hier ein recht interessantes und aktuelles Interview mit Lord Infamous.
u.a. spricht er über die Anfänge von Triple Six Mafia, über seine Einflüsse (Esham und Ganksta NIP), über seine Selbstmordversuche und wer ihn wieder aus diesem Tiefpunkt in seinem Leben wieder rausholte, sowie über einige Versuche, Three 6 Mafia in seiner ursprünglichen Form wieder zusammen zu bringen

Do you think you will ever be in Three 6 Mafia again?

Lord Infamous: I’m always Three 6 Mafia. I am one of the founders of the group. I am the one that came up with the name "Triple Six Mafia"; a lot of people may not know that. I created that name. Me and Paul grew together and one of the first places we ever did a song was in church. A lot of people might not believe that either.

How old were you? Were you nervous?

Lord Infamous: I was only like ten years old. We was nervous as hell. We did "Amazing Grace". Paul was on the keyboard and I sung. That is insane because later in life we ended up calling ourselves "Triple Six." You got the exclusive on that!

Did you used to listen to Esham? I see some similarities in your subject matter.

Lord Infamous: Me and Paul were both big fans of Esham. I remember back when all of them fires were hitting Detroit. Esham was into the dark art. I wonder what happened to that cat?

Esham is about to release a new album called "Sacrificial Lambs."

Lord Infamous: Esham has been putting it down for a long ass time. I was a real big Ganksta Nip fan too. When we started we were called The Serial Killers and we did a show with Ganksta Nip in Club Obsession. We were still in high school.

That’s crazy. What else was going on in Memphis at that time?

Lord Infamous: After I got kicked out of high school I was hanging out in North Memphis and I started hearing about this cat. I had a girlfriend at that time and she lived in Hertz Village and she would always tell me about these cats named Skinny Pimp And 211. One day I was playing basketball with 211 and I didn’t even know he was 211. One day I was riding the bus and I met Crunchy Black and that was before I knew he was Crunchy Black. I didn’t know he was this cat that everybody was talking about at the skating rink. He was juking his ass off and everybody knew about it. I sat behind him on the bus and we got to talking. We were both in blue dickies and chuck tailors because back then we were into the LA culture. I told him I got a brother named DJ Paul and he was making these mixtapes. Crunchy had already met Paul one time and we didn’t even know it. That’s how we hooked up with him. I met Skinny in North Memphis and Skinny hooked us up with Juicy J. Then Paul met Juicy and he started coming out to the house.

How did you meet Koopsta Knicca?

Lord Infamous: Koop is from Texas. He came out here after his mother and father passed away. He was an orphan. Crunchy was an orphan too but he would stay with his auntie and in and out of detention homes.

How did Gangsta Boo get into the picture?

Lord Infamous: Paul met Boo from high school. Everyone was telling us about this girl who could rap real well. Boo was like a tomboy back then. That is how all of us came together.

When did Scan Man and MC Mack join up?

Lord Infamous: Scan Man was Koopsta’s friend and so was MC Mack. Project Pat was in prison at that time and his first time was a robbery charge. When he got out he started rapping with us. Pat started jumping on Juicy J’s mixtapes, and then he brought out "Murderers, Robbers". He recorded some of those songs at my house in South Memphis. That was back in 1991-92

Just like I say about the Hot Boys, I would love to see all of you get back together and do something again. It that possible?

Lord Infamous: That would be so difficult for that to happen. We have all grown so far apart over the years.

You’re giving us a good history lesson today! What were some of the first tapes that you put out way back in the day?

Lord Infamous: I did "Come with Me To Hell Part One and Two" with DJ Paul back in 1991. I also had the Lord Infamous solo album where I had the song called "Licking My Nuts". On that album I also had the song called "South Memphis" and it was a big underground hit. I did another album called "Portrait Of A Serial Killer"; that was our very first DJ Paul and Lord Infamous album. Then we did another Serial Killer tape. All of the OG Three 6 fans will know it by the picture that we took in front of this red 6-4. When we got all the way up to volume sixteen we were ready to do "Mystic Stylez". We knew it was a good record but it took way off and sold 100,000 in the first month. That was when all of us were together. It had Gangsta Blac, Skinny, Killa Klan Kaze, K-Rock, Project Pat, and all of us. We recorded the album in like two months. It just took off. By now "Mystic Stylez" should be like a platinum record because we re-released it and we did a Screw version. After that we did the EP "Live By Yo Rep" and then came "The End Chapter One" and "Chapter Two: World Domination".

How does it feel to have your own solo album out after all of these years?

Lord Infamous: It feels real good. A lot of people have been waiting on this. People can’t believe that it turned out so well because I have been gone for so long. I’m real proud of this. Believe it or not it has been about three or four years since I touched a pen. I didn’t write anything until I started working on the album. I picked the pen up and everything flowed! I just wanted to give my fans that old Lord Infamous.

My favorite tracks are "You Don’t Want None", and "I’m Wit It". You had some excellent production on there too.

Lord Infamous: I did some composing this time. A lot of times I would help Paul and J compose tracks. The album was produced by Enigma, D.J. Sounds, St. Kittz, Jae Bino, and Quota. This album has worldwide potential. This album lit a fire for me because I had a point to prove. A lot of people thought that I couldn’t do it without Paul and J and Three 6. I had to show them that I am Three 6.

You had one line where you said "Even though I’m not with the Six talking bad on my brother will get you impaled." Tell me about that!

Lord Infamous: I was talking about that Kia Shine kid. I heard he was talking shit about my brother. He said some shit about shooting a machinegun, but Paul don’t need to shoot a machine gun because we got niggaz that shoot it for us. To tell you the truth, I don’t like Kia. I think he is sweet and has some feminine ways. He probably gets fucked in the ass!

Are you pretty happy with the album?

Lord Infamous: I’m happy with it and I can’t complain. I had something to prove to myself. Me and my little brother talked a lot and he told me I’m good at it and I shouldn’t stop doing it. Everybody always said that I shouldn’t let my talent go to waste. The truth is things were really messed up for me. I was suicidal and I tried killing myself. I was depressed and I didn’t know where my life was going.

You tried to kill yourself?

Lord Infamous: I tried to cut my wrists.

How did you get out of that dark place in your life?

Lord Infamous: My girlfriend helped me out a lot. I guess that is what I needed in my life. I was at Logan’s Restaurant and she was a waitress over there. We talked a lot and got a lot of shit off of our chests to each other and she told me I should go back out there and do it. A lot of the fans helped me too. I needed somebody in my life at that time. I was by myself going through depression. I suffer from depression and I wasn’t taking no medication or nothing. Actually I tried to commit suicide two or three times. I cut my wrists twice and I over dosed a couple of times too.

Was it with cocaine or what?

Lord Infamous: It was cane and taking a lot of pills too. I don’t mind you putting this in the interview because people need to know about addiction and suicide. If I had killed myself I would’ve never put out this album. I’m back on my feet now and this is something people need to know.

I know it would be hard to get the old Three 6 back together, but do you think you will ever be in the group again?

Lord Infamous: I think it could happen but people would have to bring some egos down. I think there is a possibility that me, Paul, and Juicy could work it out. I think Boo has burnt a lot of bridges with Juicy and them, and Koop has been out for so long. I like Koop and me and him have always been cool. Koop is my nigga! I don’t know about Crunchy because lately he has been ego trippin. At one point I went to his house but he wasn’t being real hospitable with me. I guess since he just came off of a double platinum album he thought he was the shit or something. We were gonna do an album called "The Other Half Of The Six" and we were gonna get Boo and Koop on it but Crunchy was on some big head shit. I just said "Fuck it, I’m gonna do my own shit!" I would still like to get Crunchy, Boo, Koop, and Chat together and do an album though.

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Three 6 Mafia New Album News

Hypnotize Minds/Columbia Records announce the upcoming release of Last 2 Walk, the first new full-length album from Three 6 Mafia since 2006, when the record-breaking history-making Memphis hip-hop ensemble became the first African-American rap group ever to win the Best Original Song Oscar. One of the year's most heavily anticipated album releases in any genre, Three 6 Mafia's Last 2 Walk will be available in stores and online Tuesday, June 24...


The brainchild of Three 6 Mafia founding members DJ Paul and Juicy J, Last 2 Walk premieres the future club anthem, "Lolli Lolli (Pop That Body)" featuring hardcore rapper Project Pat (Juicy J's brother and longtime member of the Hypnotize Minds' hip-hop collective), the rising Three 6 Mafia protege Young D, and Superpower.


The album includes the salacious new single "I'd Rather" featuring Unk, "That's Right" featuring Akon, and the long-awaited "My Own Way" collaboration with Good Charlotte.



Three 6 Mafia secured its place in hip-hop history and the annals of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences when "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp," from the highly acclaimed "Hustle & Flow," took home the Best Achievement In Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song) Oscar statue on Sunday, March 5, 2006.


The Academy Award win was the most visible of a long series of triumphs for Three 6 Mafia. That year's Best Song Oscar also represented a major victory for hip-hop itself as the groundbreaking art form, as represented by Three 6 Mafia, broke out of the underground to achieve bona fide recognition from the mainstream. That same year, Three 6 Mafia was presented with the Key to The City of Memphis by Mayor Willie W. Herenton, the city's first African-American mayor and became the first rap performers to be given a "Note on Beale Street," the Memphis equivalent of a star on Hollywood Boulevard.


Originally released in late 2005, Most Known Unknown, the last major label release from Three 6 Mafia prior to Last To Walk, was singled out as "one of the year's best hip-hop albums," by Kelefa Sanneh in a "Critic's Choice" review in The New York Times. The RIAA platinum-certified Most Known Unknown entered the Billboard Top 200 album sales chart at #3 while also debuting at #1 on both the R&B Album Sales and the Rap Album Sales charts.


Most Known Unknown once again upped the ante on Three 6 Mafia, whose previous album, the RIAA Gold-certified Da Unbreakables, debuted at #4 on the Top 200 in 2003 and the Rap album sales chart at #1. Da Unbreakables became the #1 best-selling album in Birmingham, Chattanooga, Jackson, Knoxville, Little Rock, Memphis, Mobile, Nashville, and Paducah.


Garnering a cult-like following since their humble beginnings peddling TDK mix tapes, the Memphis, Tennessee-based Three 6 Mafia personify the essence of Down South Hip-Hop. With an ever-growing string of gold and platinum accomplishments, the group has never lost its core connection to the pulse of the underground. Three 6 Mafia has had a series of successful recordings dating back to 1995 and the group's initial releases: the first independent release, Smoked Out, Loced Out, the first full-length album, Mystic Stylez (which sold more than 200,000 copies), and the Live By Your Rep EP.


Three 6 Mafia scored its first major label success in 1997 with Chapter 2: World Domination (Relativity), which sold over 800,000 copies. The group claimed gold status on the destructive lead single, "Tear Da Club Up." Even more success came with the follow-up album, When The Smoke Clears, in 2000. That album debuted at #6 on Billboard's Top 200 album sales chart, and has sold well over one million copies. As if musical success weren't enough, the group moved into the video realm, releasing the Choices DVD and Choices soundtrack album in 2001. The Choices DVD has sold more than 100,000 units (which is platinum status for home DVDs/videos). A well-received follow-up DVD, Choices II: The Set-Up, was released in March 2005.


Three 6 Mafia starred in the MTV reality show "Adventures In Hollyhood."


For more information:
www.three6-mafia.com
www.myspace.com/threesixmafia
www.columbiarecords.com


Source: Hypnotize Minds/Columbia Records

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Ey Leute,

ihr müsst mich jetzt mal um einiges aufklärn.

Weil ich raff des so langsam gar nimma, ich hör ja so ziemlich alles, aber zu Three6 hab ich ne Frage

Machen die jetzt Dirty South oder Crunk? der eine labbert die machen Crunk der andere Dirty South, einige sagen aber die machen gemischt.

Klar für mich ist, das seit Choices I, Three 6 ja auch schlechter geworden ist, Da Unbreakbles war ja nix find ich,

aber nun zu meiner Frage was ist jetzt was?

schaut mal hier rein!

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_6_Mafia

da steht sie würden Dirty South machen


http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crunk

hier wiederrum zählt Three 6 zu den bekanntesten Crunk Rappern

LG, Chris

Crunk kommt doch aus dem dreckigen Süden

Ich hör Three 6 Mafia nicht mehr,aber wenn die
Meinungen soweit auseinander gehen kann es sein
das sie damals den normalen Sound geliefert haben
und heute wegen dem Hyphe um den Crunk eher in
die Richtung tendieren.

Kann mich nämlich nicht dran erinnern das die
Tracks damals crunk lastig waren? Da war dieser
Kult auch noch nicht so verbreitet

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schon besser,

naja Three 6 gehört noch immer zu meinen Favs, nur halt das die den alten sytle wieder haben müssen

"crunk" als begriff wurde zwar unter anderem auch von three six mafia populär gemacht (und zwar lange vor lil jon natürlich), aber deren musik kann man nicht im heutigen sinne als crunk bezeichnen. dazu ist sie häufig zu schnell und zu wenig trance-synth lastig. na gut, die neuen sachen gehen ja schon eher in die richtung, aber die hatten ja traditionell auch öfters mal orchester sample und so. und das düstere passt auch nicht ganz in die heutige definition von crunk

der sound mit dem sie angefangen haben kommt auf jeden fall aus der "get buck" richtung, das ist der typische memphis sound, wie er von al kapone, dj squeeky und anderen gemacht wird/wurde. ist auch club sound, aber eher monoton, bassbetont, mit chants. den kann man vielleicht als vorläufer von crunk bezeichnen...

ich würde das nicht nur als vorläufer, sondern als den ursprünglichen crunk bezeichnen. der begriff wurde ja damals auch schon benutzt und geprägt, nur wars damals eben noch zu unbekannt.

Seh ich auch so.
Wenn ich mir Tracks wie "Get Crunk" von Tommy Wright und Project Pimp anhöre fällt schon auf, dass das mit dem heutigen Crunk nich mehr so viel zu tun hat.

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Alvaro Carrera

der meinung bin ich auch!!!!

Der Begriff wird einfach für verschiedene Styles parallel benutzt: Memphis Crunk, ATL Crunk, Dallas Crunk (Oak Cliff Asassin ). Die haben sich mehr oder weniger unabhängig voneinander entwickelt und klingen auch unterschiedlich, nur die Bezeichnung ist dieselbe. Ihren alten Sound haben die Three Sixer imho mit "Mystic Stylez" selbst ganz gut beschrieben. --> Mystic Crunk

ich hasse dieses wort.

mystic stylez ist aber nicht so wirklich der typische three six mafia sound finde ich. ist natürlich ihr größtes album usw, aber imo sind auf dem album auch einige eher crunk untypische cuts drauf. ich würd eher sagen dass bspw. da devils playground oder die alten solotapes typisch crunk sind (was three six angeht)