Verzuz Presents: Bone Thugz vs 3-6 Mafia

[Rollie Forbes]

 

[BigSteve]

If we are counting Project Pat (I think that they should, most of their best production went to Pat). Again, these are the singles/hits from an otherwise elite discography:
Represent It
Ballers
We're Gonna Rumble
Cheese And Dope
Chickenhead
Don't Save Her
We Can Get Gangsta
Gorilla Pimp
Make Dat Azz Clap
Choose U
Tell Tell Tell
Good Googly Moogly

Project Pat could and should play 20+ other tracks from his first three solo albums if he ever did a vezuz. His best songs, and some of his most beloved, are not his singles.

 

[BigSteve]

If we are including songs where they are the featured artist or producer:
Go 2 Sleep - Ludacris
Who Gives a fukk Where You From - Kay Slay
Hennessey & Hydro - I-20
Diamond In The Back - Ludacris
Gangster Walk - David Banner
Oxy Cotton - Lil Wyte
Stomp - Young Buck
Cadillac - Trae
Chop Me Up - Justin Timberlake
International Players Anthem - UGK
Dark Horse - Katy Perry

 

[Lord-Yosh]

Bone thugs gonna smoke these nikkas

 

[BigSteve]

I hope they're doing it in LA because there will be a lot of guests, or it will be a big show. Both groups have done so many features, and inspired so many other younger artists, that they could bring out a ton of guests to perform with them or pay homage.

Both of these groups deserve their roses for influencing the SoundCloud/YouTube generation of artists.

 

[BigSteve]

DJ Paul's underground tapes from when they were in high school 30 years ago are still getting remixed by artists today and DJs overseas. There's a whole sub-genre of DJs remastering or ripping vocals from old Memphis tapes and they get millions of views/listens.

Russian Producers Obsessed With Three 6 Mafia Can't Stop Going Viral

“It sounds like my childhood stuff,” DJ Paul says of the music being made by his young Russian disciples. “It reminds me of when I was a teenager in high school creating all those sounds.”

Though Three 6 Mafia never enjoyed much in the way of commercial hits — they cracked the Top 40 just three times — the slow tempos, triplet flows, gloomy atmospheres, and hyper-active drums in their 1990s releases all helped pave new roads for southern hip-hop. Now that foundational elements popularized in Memphis, Houston, Miami and elsewhere have infiltrated pretty much every genre of popular music, Three Six Mafia have become one of hip-hop’s most significant groups, an ensemble sitting in the middle of a wide, sticky web of influence.

Their sound helped spawned prolific scenes in Florida (Raider Klan) and New York (the A$AP Mob); massive stars like Drake and Cardi B have also paid homage. (Some acts have been forced to acknowledge their debt to Three 6 Mafia through legal means — Travis Scott settled with DJ Paul in 2019 after lifting a chant from one of the producer’s older tracks.) Three 6 Mafia’s “beats were some of the most advanced,” high-powered producer Metro Boomin told GQ in 2018.

One of the latest branches on the tree of Three 6 Mafia’s influence has been branded phonk, a term that has been in use for several years. Ryan Celsius, a Memphis hip-hop mega-fan whose YouTube channel has amassed more than half a million subscribers, identifies at least two prominent strains of the sound. He describes “the Florida-influenced stuff” as “rare phonk,” which relies on “more of a cleaner, almost mainstream trap sound.” “The vocals are still on top of the main mix and you can hear what the rapper’s saying,” Celsius notes.

In contrast, he refers to the Russian version of the sound currently gaining popularity in some corners of the internet as “drift phonk,” partially because “the visual aesthetic is related to street racing.” There are sonic differences between the two strands as well. Unlike the crisper sounds from Florida, in drift phonk, the Memphis samples are buried under blown-out drums, according to Tyler Blatchley, co-founder of Black 17 Media, the label that has distributed some of DJ Paul’s solo singles.

But DJ Paul doesn’t bat an eye. “Our sound’s popular everywhere right now,” he says. (He predicted this would happen on the 2000 track “Just Like Ous:” “They wanna dress like/Wanna sound like… the motherfukkin’ Three 6.”) “There’s not one single person in the world not doing the Three 6 sound, New York to Amsterdam to Norway,” the producer adds.

 

[BigSteve]

Foe Tha Love of $
1st Of Tha Month
Breakdown
Notorious Thugs
Thug Luv
Crossroads

^^^ spades

East 1999 is a winner if they open with it

All Good
Look Into My Eyes
Ghetto Cowboy
Thug Mentality
Thuggish Ruggish Bone
Mo Murda
Shotz To Tha Double Glock
Shoot Em Up
Budsmokers Only
Buddah Lovaz
Days Of Our Livez
Resurrection
Ecstasy
If I Could Teach The World
Home
I Tried
Down 71
How Many Of Us Have Them
Until We Rich
Spit Your Game
Ridin Dirty



That's a lot of heat to match.

I honestly wish that they would do 30 vs 30 or 40 vs 40. I would watch the whole thing. This is the VZ that I'm most excited for. I assaulted my lungs in the late 90's and early 00's to both of these groups. They should tour together and rake in cash (if they want it).

 

[Apollo Creed]

DJ Paul's underground tapes from when they were in high school 30 years ago are still getting remixed by artists today and DJs overseas. There's a whole sub-genre of DJs remastering or ripping vocals from old Memphis tapes and they get millions of views/listens.

Russian Producers Obsessed With Three 6 Mafia Can't Stop Going Viral

I used to run into these eastern euros as a kid on message boards In the early 2000s looking for underground stuff

 

[DaHNIC82]

They already hyping the shyt up on IG.. This is gonna be a classic...

 

[Techniec]

I love Bone but their run was very short. By 2000 they were considered an old school rap group while 3-6 was still dropping hits.

Resurrection dropped 2000, went Platinum,

Thug World Order and Strength & Loyalty dropped years later, both went Gold

 

[DaHNIC82]

I'm hoping Bone do this shyt here

 

[kingofnyc]

When notorious thugs and thug luv drop wow

Shoulda been bone and WU though

Bone is winning this. They're one of the greatest groups in history. And they should've been facing off against WU-TANG.

Always seems like this matchup was forced. Nobody had these two groups on the same level or compared with each other when they were both active and in their primes

Should've did Three 6 vs 8Ball and MJG and Bone vs Wu-Tang

why this push for Bone vs Wu
2 completely different styles
would’ve been a horrible verzez

 

[Bonefan32]

 

[R=G]

Gonna be a onslaught

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Should this really be in LA?