The song “On Some Chrome” shakily interpolates the Christmas classic “Carol of the Bells.” The hooks, such as “Play with your PlayStation/Don’t play with me, boy” are atrocious. (Seriously: They flip Zombie Nation’s “Kernkraft 400,” a track you’ll recognize if you’ve ever watched a soccer game or played FIFA). Paul and Juicy forsake their vintage-horror-soundtrack synths for ones that belong in ‘80s action flicks, then toss those into a busy mix with nu-metal guitar presets and Eurodance samples. It does away with nearly all traces of the murky, dark aesthetic that became Three 6’s calling card in the late ‘90s and still remains their biggest artistic legacy.
Unlike every Three 6 album since 1997 - minus their two film soundtracks - it failed to go gold or platinum.Īnd for good reason: The album’s a mess. 18 on the Hot 100) considering it was a blatant T-Pain imitation. It had two false-start lead singles before landing on “Lolli Lolli (Pop That Body),” a strip-club anthem that fared decently on the charts (peaking at No. The album limped to the finish line: It endured over a year of delays. Its title alluded to the fact that Juicy and Paul were the final remaining members of the group, which had seen four other members depart over financial disputes during the previous eight years. Last 2 Walk, the group’s ninth studio album, arrived on this day (June 24) in 2008. Just 10 years ago, Three 6 looked dead in the water. But that couldn’t further from the truth. Amid a month in which the similarly-aged Pusha T, Kanye West, JAY-Z, and Nas have also enjoyed plenty of attention, it may be tempting to assume that Three 6 are not far from this upper echelon of veteran legends with built-in fan bases and steady career paths. Juicy and DJ Paul, Three 6’s producers and core members, are 43 and 41, respectively. Some newer artists even exist almost solely as Three 6 pastiche acts, including $uicideboy$, whose WhoSampled page lists dozens of flips of old Memphis classics. Two of the most influential producer camps in 2010s Southern rap, Atlanta’s 808 Mafia trap collective and South Florida’s proto-SoundCloud-rap Raider Klan, both came up citing Three 6’s as their primary influence. Back in 2014, 2 Chainz downplayed the hype surrounding Migos’ triplet-laden flow by crediting it to decades-old Three 6 verses. Cole to Rae Sremmurd have all interpolated old Three 6 hooks within the past four years. Three months ago, swarms of 25-and-under rappers like 21 Savage, Lil Uzi Vert, and Trippie Redd rushed to freestyle over the group’s 2000 track “Who Run It” when it went viral as a part of the #whorunitchallenge.
Three songs on the chart - “Plain Jane” (by A$AP Ferg), “No Limit” (by G-Eazy, A$AP Rocky, and Cardi B), and “King’s Dead” (from the Black Panther soundtrack) - all interpolated the same 1999 track: “Slob on My Knob” by Three 6 Mafia’s Juicy J, released under the group’s offshoot project, Tear Da Club Up Thugs.īut step anywhere in contemporary hip-hop, and you’re bound to trip over some more Three 6 Mafia history. For a few weeks this past March, something curious was happening on the Hot 100.
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