And I'm going to drop this off in both the Three Six Mafia threads since posters want to overstate Three Six's influence:
T.I.- “I was like, ‘Listen, I don’t need anything. The motherfukkers around me respect me enough.’ So 8Ball, MJG, Bun B, were major figures in the culture. They cultivated my career and they were some of the first Southern lyricists along with OutKast, Scarface, and Goodie Mob.
The Making of T.I.'s "Trap Muzik" - "Bezzle" f/ 8Ball & MJG & Bun B
Young Jeezy-
Tupac is one of Jeezy’s biggest musical inspirations, along with UGK and 8 Ball & MJG
25 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Jeezy | 25 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Jeezy
DJ Sqeeky-
Who were some of your musical influences from a production standpoint?
We were more or less listening to Dr. Dre and them. 8Ball & MJG with T-mix and them making the music. M.J.G. taught me how to start working the keyboards and stuff. I didn’t know anything about the keyboard. I had a drum machine back then. MJG used to come back to Memphis [with his] Sonic keyboard. He used to show me a lot of tricks.
Q & A with DJ Squeeky
And here is Eightball talking about the influence of Memphis on Atlanta and even credits Three Six:
DX: Drumma Boy and Mike Will Made It have absolutely bonded with the southern rap sound both of you and Three Six Mafia helped create, how do you feel about the Memphis/Atlanta legacy they’re carrying into mainstream music?
8Ball: They’re so close to each other. Distance as well as the feel of the music as far as Hip Hop goes I think in the early ‘90s, me and MJ and Three Six Mafia and groups like that created a sound, DJ Squeaky was one of em. I think Atlanta adopted it with the Lil Jon era. Atlanta is like a sister city to Memphis. That sound kind of carried over and it went from underground to popular music. It’s just that sound, it’s an unexplainable sound to me, created out of Memphis. It took it to the world with the commercialized way that Atlanta rappers did it. Some of em, not all of em. Lil Jon took that crunk, hard beat sound to another level.
T.I.- “I was like, ‘Listen, I don’t need anything. The motherfukkers around me respect me enough.’ So 8Ball, MJG, Bun B, were major figures in the culture. They cultivated my career and they were some of the first Southern lyricists along with OutKast, Scarface, and Goodie Mob.
The Making of T.I.'s "Trap Muzik" - "Bezzle" f/ 8Ball & MJG & Bun B
Young Jeezy-
Tupac is one of Jeezy’s biggest musical inspirations, along with UGK and 8 Ball & MJG
25 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Jeezy | 25 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Jeezy
DJ Sqeeky-
Who were some of your musical influences from a production standpoint?
We were more or less listening to Dr. Dre and them. 8Ball & MJG with T-mix and them making the music. M.J.G. taught me how to start working the keyboards and stuff. I didn’t know anything about the keyboard. I had a drum machine back then. MJG used to come back to Memphis [with his] Sonic keyboard. He used to show me a lot of tricks.
Q & A with DJ Squeeky
And here is Eightball talking about the influence of Memphis on Atlanta and even credits Three Six:
DX: Drumma Boy and Mike Will Made It have absolutely bonded with the southern rap sound both of you and Three Six Mafia helped create, how do you feel about the Memphis/Atlanta legacy they’re carrying into mainstream music?
8Ball: They’re so close to each other. Distance as well as the feel of the music as far as Hip Hop goes I think in the early ‘90s, me and MJ and Three Six Mafia and groups like that created a sound, DJ Squeaky was one of em. I think Atlanta adopted it with the Lil Jon era. Atlanta is like a sister city to Memphis. That sound kind of carried over and it went from underground to popular music. It’s just that sound, it’s an unexplainable sound to me, created out of Memphis. It took it to the world with the commercialized way that Atlanta rappers did it. Some of em, not all of em. Lil Jon took that crunk, hard beat sound to another level.
