Classics Discussion: Three 6 Mafia

[H.I.M.]

Aren't most 36 Mafia fans white though?

Just a few a months ago...by your own admittance you never listened to three 6 mafia and didn't know a goddamn thing about em...now after they've beaten Mobb Deep in a poll on thecoli you're an expert on their fanbase & music

Fuk outta my face you raw bacon complected, hairy caucus mountain dwelling sub-animal...dont talk to me about black music

 

[Zero]

Some of you don't realize how programmed you are


One minute "we anti", Anti- CAC and we hate Complex and XXL

The next we're using their grading scale to justify albums being great, good, or average

I bet The Source/XXL never gave Three 6 Mafia/Project Pat any respect during their run. I doubt any of their albums got more than 3 MICs.

I bet brainwashed fans that never listened to their music or chalked it up to southern noise just thought they were some fly by night country bumpkins that would be 1/2 hit wonders


Right...


You brothers are confused. You love validation and acknowledgment from the same constructs you criticize (your oppressors)

Three Six Mafia's sound is the foundation for mainstream and a lot of underground artists today

TODAY BEING 2016.


Sidenote: @The HONORABLE SKJ I saw some dumb thread about Boosie still being subjugated to the chitlin circuit like it was a bad thing

and I'm sitting here reading this thread and the TS's whole perspective is warped.

"Boosie should be on a major."

"He should have dropped his album the day he came out and it would have went platinum."

Boosie isn't for the mainstream. His impact is felt with his core fans. Contrary to popular belief there are some great artists that don't want to sign with daddy just to get their albums promo in Wyoming or North Dakota.

Boosie is a living legend. Z-Ro is a living legend.

Get off your hip hop elitist high horse and study the game before you make this silly convoluted posts with your opinions

Dapped + repped

 

[Inspect Her Deck]

Soon as I get out of the office I'll take care of the two users who consciously took it upon themselves to enter a classic discussion thread to question validity


One of which admitted they never listened to a three six mafia album


The other is upset that triple six makes better music than Mobb Deep

Come on breh

 

[Zero]

I've never seen a Three 6 Mafia put up there with the best of the best, but I have seen OutKast and Goodie Mob and Scarface etc.

That's because they're the only southern groups these lame ass east coast nikkas bother to acknowledge

They weren't even bothering with Scarface until the Fix and OutKast got too big for them to deny but whatever

Please don't bring up UGK either because they didn't care until Big Pimpin

 

[mobbinfms]

Just a few a months ago...by your own admittance you never listened to three 6 mafia and didn't know a goddamn thing about em...now after they've beaten Mobb Deep in a poll on thecoli you're an expert on their fanbase & music

Fuk outta my face you raw bacon complected, hairy caucus mountain dwelling sub-animal...dont talk to me about black music

Oh I'm definitely no 36 expert.
But I would think their record company would know a thing or two about who was buying their albums...and they paid for advertisements ranting and raving about their huuuuuuge white fan base
You don't have to talk to me breh
But you might want to talk to Relativity records

 

[Inspect Her Deck]

That's because they're the only southern groups these lame ass east coast nikkas bother to acknowledge

They weren't even bothering with Scarface until the Fix and OutKast got too big for them to deny but whatever

Please don't bring up UGK either because they didn't care until Big Pimpin

so it just happens that those groups were acknowledged and Three 6 Mafia weren't

and tbh breh the group had 4 albums voted over 50%, which still tells me they have acknowledgement but they don't have that universally accepted classic in the same fashion as an Illmatic or ATLiens or whatever. They have, at least according to these votes, 4 debatable classics. That's pretty impressive and I think reflective of their place in the genre. They don't have something on the highest tier.

That said The Coli have fukked up on voting before and demonstrate their bias through denying classics for the likes of Common or Eminem etc.

 

[H.I.M.]

Oh I'm definitely no 36 expert.
But I would think their record company would know a thing or two about who was buying their albums...and they paid for advertisements ranting and raving about their huuuuuuge white fan base
You don't have to talk to me breh
But you might want to talk to Relativity records

Stay mad caveman.

A prominent "boom bap" rap group routed on their own home turf in the booth by the 6double6

 

[mobbinfms]

Stay mad caveman.

A prominent "boom bap" rap group routed on their own home turf in the booth by the 6double6

Must be all those white people on the Coli voting for 36...that's their fanbase after all...according to their record label

 

[H.I.M.]

Must be all those white people on the Coli voting for 36...that's their fanbase after all...according to their record label

Oh...so NOW we're disregarding the opinions of booth posters on the account of them being your fellow cave brethren.

But you're investing all this time and posts in these coli classics threads...based on poll-oriented results of these same cave dwellers

Just gon'head and keep shyttin on your OWN opinions you goddamn dummy

 

[mobbinfms]

Oh...so NOW we're disregarding the opinions of booth posters on the account of them being your fellow cave brethren.

But you're investing all this time and posts in these coli classics threads...based on poll-oriented results of these same cave dwellers

Just gon'head and keep shyttin on your OWN opinions you goddamn dummy

You ducking that ad.

 

[H.I.M.]

You ducking that ad.

No amount of straw grasping is going to change reality.....my leprous friend.

Here...suck on this.

 

[JustCKing]

This isn't really surprising. A lot of what Three Six Mafia gets credit for especially when it comes to Trap and Crunk could be attributed to several artists. That's no knock against Three Six, but even in just Memphis, you have Eightball & MJG who also pioneered a lot of modern Hip Hop. They got overlooked in their thread on classics and they are more respected and highly regarded than Three Six.

That said, When The Smoke Clears is a favorite of mine and even some of their lesser albums all had some heat on them. The song below does not get enough love:



Unbreakables had some heat and that DJ Paul mixtape that came out in '02 had this:

 

[Wacky D]

The hipster of yesterday is today's hip hop fan. All the indie blogs co-opted the culture.

 

[BigSteve]

1995 - Mystic Stylez - Influential, must listen for rap fans in general, definitely a southern classic

1996 - The End - must listen for rap fans, especially southern rap fans

1997 - World Domination - Influential, must listen for rap fans, southern classic - "I bet you won't..." might be the very first mainstream crunk rap line, if not THE first crunk line.

1998 - Body Parts - Influential, definitely a southern classic, borderline classic

1999 - CrazyNDaLazDayz - Classic.

1999 - Ghetty Green - Classic.

1999 - Da Devil's Playground - Influential sound

1999 - Underground Vol 1 - Influential sound, must listen for rap fans.

1999 - Underground Vol 2 - listen to this and tell me it isn't the foundation for today's trap

2000 - Hypnotize Camp Posse - not a classic

2000 - When the Smoke Clears - Classic. Shouldn't even be questionable. Laid the groundwork and basically birthed mainstream crunk and what would become trap.

2000 - Underground Vol 3 - must listen for rap fans, especially southern rap

2001 - Choices - must listen for southern rap fans, borderline classic

2001 - Mista Don't Play - influential, southern classic

2002 - Underground Vol 16 - must listen for southern rap fans

2002 - Chronicles of the Juice Man - this led directly into crunk

2002 - Dat's How It Happen To 'M - must listen for southern rap fans

2002 - Layin' Da Smack Down - borderline classic. Influential.

2003 - Da Unbreakables - must listen for southern rap fans

2005 - Choices II - not a classic

2005 - Most Known Unknown - not a classic. Them cashing out and crossing over. They had earned it by this point.

World Domination, Body Parts, CrazyNDaLazDayz, and When The Smoke Clears are direct influences and trend setters for crunk.
Throw in Ghetty Green, Chronicles of the Juice Man, and Choices and you have the beginnings of trap.

Mystic Stylez, those Underground CDs, and Devil's Playground influenced all new-age rap. The horrorcore/trap sound that a lot of current rappers find intriguing was pioneered by these guys.

So, some of you may not find Three 6 influential, for whatever reason, but many of today's producers and rappers look to different albums and eras of their catalog for points of reference. They're influencers, and I count 3, AT LEAST 2, classics.

Also, look at how many releases they were pushing out on a yearly basis. Most other groups or rappers wouldn't dream of being able to do that. They were spreading the piff and STILL RELEASED POTENT MATERIAL. This isn't a matter of taste, they put out classics. Those albums they put out in 2 years before and after the year 2000 were all borderline, if not certified, classics. They changed the game. They were DEFINITELY before their time.

This came out in 1994, and it was 20 years ahead of its time:

 

[mobbinfms]

1995 - Mystic Stylez - Influential, must listen for rap fans in general,