A document submitted with the lawsuit lists 99 tracks on which the plaintiffs say they worked. Template:Infobox Musical artist Three 6 Mafia (formerly Triple 6 Mafia) is an Academy-Award winning American rap group originating from Memphis, Tennessee. Formed in 1991 by DJ Paul, Lord Infamous, and Juicy J, they shortly thereafter recruited fellow Memphian rappers Koopsta Knicca, Gangsta Boo, and Crunchy Black.Dj Paul is an American DJ, rapper, and record producer from Memphis, Tennessee.
For example, his estate is seeking ownership for his alleged lyrical contributions to “Tear da Club Up ’97” and “Break da Law ’95.” The Memphis artists are asking for $150,000 per recording on the document.6ix Commandments Three 6 Mafia - DJ Paul, Scale-A-Ton & Trap-A-Holics Mixtape. In the lawsuit, the Memphis artists outline numerous Three 6 Mafia recordings to which they claim to have contributed without being awarded ownership or compensation. Eiseman and the plaintiffs claim that Juicy J and DJ Paul committed “over 150 independent acts of copyright infringement from more than 100 individual sound recordings.”Three 6 Mafias founding members became musicians at young ages.
In a tale that's being groomed for a TV series, DJ Paul's beginnings started when he was hustling mixtapes at school before ultimately landing a distribution deal with Select-O-Hits - an independent distributor owned by the Phillips family who put out Elvis' records. Meanwhile, Travis Scott, Rae Sremmurd, and Cardi B are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to artists who've sampled or repurposed Three 6 Mafia tracks to their own success in recent years.Paul and Juicy J's humble beginnings in Memphis transformed into a giant empire that has claimed a stake in Southern hip-hop. DJ Paul and Juicy J created this eerie, dark sound that inspired the uptick in rappers using the triplet flows that Lord Infamous introduced. As hip-hop's reached its pinnacle of popularity in the past five years, Three 6 Mafia's influence has become inescapable.
They finna blow this motherfucka up n***a. They look at it and be like ‘Oh shit, n***a, we gotta go back to Africa. Like, they standing on the corner doing what they gotta do and they get an alert that I just did a post. DJ Paul will be diving into an array of subjects while remaining the “Hood News Man,” as he calls it."I just try and keep the guys up to date on it because I know a lot of these guys are just like me back in the day, they was in the streets," Paul explained"I try to be the Hood News Man. That's the point of his newly relaunched Mafia Radio podcast with HotNewHipHop. "$4,500 to make the first Three 6 Mafia album and that shit probably turned into $450 million worth of shit over time, but that's how it started."DJ Paul's entrepreneurial spirit is a reflection of his overall interests, be it food or real estate.
I been steppin' it up here lately. I saw Metro rockin' one of the shirts the other day in the “ Runnin” video - crazy.Man, all that shit hard. I just try and keep n***as informed of what's going on and just try and help as much as I can.”Ahead of the launch of Mafia Radio, DJ Paul chopped it up with HNHH about the new podcast, his relationship with John Singleton, paying homage, and so much more.This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.HNHH: The new Three 6 drops are hard.
The shirt that I saw Metro rockin' had that signature grungy Three 6 style.Yeah, when I saw him wearing that shirt, I felt like - I ain't even gon' lie, I felt old. The influence goes beyond music and into the aesthetic. Like, Three 6 is timeless in that sense. We got jogging suits and everything out.Well, shit.
And when I saw that I was like, “Damn, we're officially one of those groups right now. It's just, like I said, it's a household name, you know? And they love that vintage stuff. She probably can't tell you none of the lyrics to “911 Is a Joke” but it's just like (laughs) - It's just, I don't know, it's just so huge. Like, I'll be in a grocery store - the healthy grocery store - and I'll see some hot white girl wearing a Public Enemy shirt. So it's like when you go out and you see white kids and Asians and whatever, just all different races, rocking a RUN-DMC shirt. But no, I felt like, I was like, now I know we were already this, but now we are an official household name.
You know, I'm tryna get it the other way. It's cool.Just like on that note of being a household name, do you think that the brand itself is as big as the music? Because you can't deny how influential that sound is to the current sound of hip-hop right now.Right now, our music is bigger than our brand. And now seeing kids do the same for me, it's just online. Growing up, walkin' in there, buying a Van Halen shirt or something. I would love to be, but that felt like one of those Hot Topic moments to me.
As far as our brand, it's not everywhere like that because there's still people who don't even know our name. I have produced country music that's been with some of our little seasonings of Three 6 Mafia. I done heard country music.
Like, when you see a lot of these things about who's the hottest producer or what was the hottest group in the 90s. We still ain't never been on none of those. Like, I think the last time they had that Hip-Hop Honors Awards or whatever it is that they had on TV. So, it's still the name ain't out there like it could be.You know, we still get looked over for some stuff. Most of the time I don't tell ‘em, but if I tell ‘em, I'll be like “Yeah, Three 6 Mafia.” They'll be like, “Three 6 Mafia! What did you guys sing?” Well, we had a little song called “Slob on the Knob,” “Stay Fly,” “Poppin' My Collar.” And they be like, “Oh my god!” And they start going crazy about it, just from that. I be walking down the street and people are like, “Ain't you that rapper? That dude, um?” You know, they know, and they know it and they know the songs and I'll be like “Ah, yeah” and I'll tell ‘em.
They just don't wanna show no love to us for whatever reason (Laughs). So, you know, for whatever reason, people still wanna - I think they do it purposefully - some people do look over Three 6 Mafia so, that's why I said the brand ain't there but the music is there. But they'll have a million people on there that was influenced by us and may even have remakes of our songs on there.
But they'll have a million people on there that was influenced by us and may even have remakes of our songs on there."I mean, that's what I was about to say. And you see all these things and they still forget about us. Like, when you see a lot of these things about who's the hottest producer or what was the hottest group in the 90s. We still ain't never been on none of those. Like, I think the last time they had that Hip-Hop Honors Awards or whatever it is that they had on TV. "We still get looked over for some stuff.
So the thing about it though, it's like this because I never wanted the fame. I mean there's a lot of kids - I mean really, really love us now, because a lot of these kids just startin' to find out who we are. And I feel like kids nowadays are witnessing as they grow up.Mhm. You guys are the OGs who kicked off a lot of the wave that you know, I witnessed growing up. And it's crazy that you even mentioned that you don't feel like you get the recognition you deserve.
But should've kept ‘em on. But you know the fucking girls started getting at us at these concerts and we took ‘em off. If it was up to me, I should've kept those masks on. When we first started off, we used to wear masks on our album covers like Mystic Stylez and Live by Yo Rep , and stuff like that.
Just live in a fucking forest somewhere by myself and go to the little town grocery store and nobody know who I am. You don't have to live behind gates and shit like that. You can live where you want to. You can go to the grocery store and nobody recognize who you is.
We was making Three 6 Mafia, Choices 2 movie. We was in my hotel room in 2002. Even years before Hustle & Flow. Craig Brewer, from Memphis, he was a big fan of ours.John Singleton was a personal friend of mine.
And just on that topic of John Singleton. I don't want too much publicity.No, for sure. And I like it just like that. You know?” Four years later, he came to Memphis and outta nowhere we was making Hustle & Flow together and won an Academy Award together. In Memphis, just like y'all did with Choices 1 , something gritty like that. He was like “One day, I wanna make a movie like y'all.” I'm like “n***a, I wanna make a movie like yours," like Boyz N Da Hood was the shit, you know? But he was like, “I wanna make a movie like y'all's, like a Boyz N Da Hood , but in the South.
Can you just like, expand a little bit just about your guys' relationship? Even following the Oscar.
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