Verzuz Presents: Bone Thugz vs 3-6 Mafia

[Absolut da poet ®]

Voted for Three 6 only because I never understood what they were saying in any Bone songs
I hated that Crossroads song


And Stay Fly, and Poppin Collar was my shyt

But Bone is definitely the more popular group

 

[Hoodoo Child]

Generation Z don’t give a fukk about Bone

You right

 

[CHICAGO]

That’s true but idk imo it’s like Bone got what like 5-7 songs that’s like undeniable goat tier that’s gone be near impossible for them to beat but like if 3-6 don’t play their best shyt them rounds and just eat the Ls. I feel like it’s easy for them to take more rounds going against Bones lesser songs.

WE KNOW THIS ISNT GOING
TO HAPPEN THO...

IT NEVER HAPPENS.

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[breakfuss]

Phil Collins coming out?

That’s what I was wondering too .

Taaaaaaaaaaake me home

 

[madness]

And they got the only Sade sample cleared by rappers

Sade’s husband at the time was a huge Bone fan and told her “You better clear that shyt”

 

[I love Latina women]

bone thugs n harmony

 

[Wacky D]

No you can't, Three Six has influenced 3 decades of rap, all their production techniques have been copied and adopted as standards for the pass twenty years

you can't be serious, Three Six and Mafia had beef over them stealing their style, that's how the beef started

Three Six Mafia was on horror core shyt before bone, Infamous was doing the Migos flow, not bone

Three Six mafia invented Crunk Music and Trap music, yet you say Bone is more influential, you sound fukking stupid

Bone make better music than Three Six but even that could be argued because Three Six was pure underground with a cult following, and they sound took over the entire genre

youre putting way too much sauce on 3-6 mafia's influence. alot of the stuff youre crediting them for, they didnt even start. youre just following behind the circle-jerkers on these forums.

not to mention, the clear recency bias that youre displaying, with no sense of history.
and even on some recent chit; youre ignoring the clear bone influence thats on the radio all dam day, and the fact that they actually had influence and real-time and all the eras in between when hip-hop still mattered - unlike 3-6 mafia.

Yup there’s a lot of revisionist history. Folks saying 3 6 is the most influential group of all time


3 6 never had as much influence as Run DMC, PE, NWA, Bone or Wu

THIS

in addition to treacherous three, funky 4 + 1, furious five, cold crush bros, salt-n-pepa.
thats prolly my top 10 right there in no order.

3-6 mafia in that top 20 range. maybe top 15 alongside groups like above the law.

@Master Teacher sounds like a dumbass.

And realistically the east coast don’t really care bout these acts ..I live in nyc and a fan of both btw

naw.


bone has a STRONG east coast following and tours the most biased of east coast cities all the time.

now if you would say that the east coast doesnt care about them battling 3-6 mafia, then i agree.

i see what youre getting at, but the wording was disrespectful.
this is another reason why bone shouldnt be battling down like this. they get dragged down and classified with their opponents, who prolly never did a big show on the east coast.

 

[Wacky D]

U right his cosign probably not as big as it would seem in retrospect but it’s still more than what 3-6 had. I’m sure Eazy knowledge of the game helped BTNH in some. And true I guess I forgot to mention the buzz the beef with Bone would give them. I could say the same thing you did about Eazy tho. 3-6 might’ve been first associated with the whole mid-west/mid-south rap beef against Bone over rapping fast but most of their success comes from their crunk shyt. But I think we making similar points. 3-6 were mainly underground independent artists for the most of the 90s. They signed to Relativity and dropped Chapter 2 which did alright but they started to see more mainstream success with the next album which dropped in 2000 and they just gradually got bigger as the landscape of rap changed to match their sound. Bone were huge in the 90s and seems like they had the game in a chokehold that’s something I wasn’t there for but I gotta give respect for that. If we going off just the 90s yea Bone winning easily but I just feel like 3-6 done put so much work in from 2000 to now that it almost evens out the playing field.

lol.

3-6 mafia moving up to the b-list for a lil bit aftter hip-hop fell off, does NOT even out the playing field at all.

and youre bragging about 3-6 mafia in 2000 w/ sizzurrp and all that, but bone thugs were still hotter in 2000.
bone thugs ressurrection went platinum in 2 weeks and alot of people consider in their 2nd best LP/3rd best release.
they were still bigger & better than 3-6 mafia in 2000.

and truth be told, "when the smoke clears" was prolly the last official 3-6 mafia album that was any good.

i aprreciate the fact that you admit to not living thru it all, but yea, 3-6 has no business on stage with bone.

Man if you don't gone with this BS. You can't put an OutKast as B level, place Three Six on C Level all while saying No Limit was A Level before 3-6 dropped a major label debut. Keeping it regional, before anybody ever heard about No Limit, Kast was an A Level Southern act. This never changed. You couldn't place anyone on No Limit on an A Level until 1997. OutKast was wildly popular before, during, and after No Limit's run.

I got Bone above Three Six, but Three Six's buzz had nothing to do with Bone and everything to do with "Tear Da Club Up '97". Do or Die, Crucial, and Twista all had their own sound which was nothing like Bone. The closest to Bone was Crucial and they had this country style to them. Only common thread was tongue twisting flows, which Twista pioneered before Bone even became Bone.

And LOL at Silkk The Shocker being a double time rapper. He struggled with that flow and that's why people to this day think he's wack. None of the songs that Silkk is actually known for has him using double time.

In terms of double time, you might as well throw Busta in the hat too. He was definitely doing double time on "Ginme Some More" and "What's It Gonna Be" and "Iz They Wildin".

i understand the confusion, but i wasnt ranking southern levels. i was ranking overall levels.
3-6 mafia dropped their major debut at the end of '97.
outkast was never "wildly popular", but whatever. im not getting into that with you.

"tear da club up" was NOT an across-the-board hit.
and i was on the forums back then. the main buzz about them leading up to their relativity debut was their beef with bone thugs. the main topics with all of those acts that i mentioned, usually revolved around bone. and when those names were brought up offline to the general jaded fan, their word association was with bone. however you want to classify them stylistically is neither here nor there.

silkk the shocker outshined bone thugs on a track............by a wide-margin.

 

[JustCKing]

understand the confusion, but i wasnt ranking southern levels. i was ranking overall levels.
3-6 mafia dropped their major debut at the end of '97.
outkast was never "wildly popular", but whatever. im not getting into that with yo

It really doesn't matter whether you agree that Kast was ever wildly popular. The point is before TRU 2 Da Game, No Limit was exactly where Three Six Mafia was before they dropped "Sippin On Syrup". So to leap frog them into A List status a d push Kast to B List status is laughable considering OutKast was a household name by the time No Limit blew in the mainstream.

tear da club up" was NOT an across-the-board hit.
and i was on the forums back then. the main buzz about them leading up to their relativity debut was their beef with bone thugs. the main topics with all of those acts that i mentioned, usually revolved around bone. and when those names were brought up offline to the general jaded fan, their word association was with bone. however you want to classify them stylistically is neither here nor there.

Never said "Tear Da Club Up" was an across the board hit. And really most wouldn't have known about them before "Tear Da Club Up" because they were still underground. At that time, Tela and Eightball & MJG were like the only Memphis artists getting shine in the mainstream. So before 2000, Eightball & MJG would have been a tier above Three Six.

silkk the shocker outshined bone thugs on a track............by a wide-margin.

I don't recall, Silkk outshining Bone on a track. Silkk was never a double time rhymes. He just attempted to rap fast and ended up sounding closer to Serv-On rapping fast than any member of Bone. Silkk and them should've left that style to Mystikal as he was the only No Limit artist that was effortless with it.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

You right

The oldest of Generation Z was small children during 36’s prime. They don’t care about 36 either

 

[kingofnyc]

LOL.

i was CLEARLY talking about rap forums in the '90s and the landscape in general offline............and you respond saying youve been posting since 2001 and claiming that 01 was the beginning of rap forums.

you on some dikkhead talk right now.

what rap forums in the 90’s ?

da internet basically started toward the end of ‘98/ beginning of ‘99
it’s was AOL chat rooms till actually forums became popping
and again, ain’t nobody & i mean nobody compared Wu to Bone

 

[Wacky D]

what rap forums in the 90’s ?

da internet basically started toward the end of ‘98/ beginning of ‘99
it’s was AOL chat rooms till actually forums became popping
and again, ain’t nobody & i mean nobody compared Wu to Bone

You're a dikkhead.

Stop talking to me.

 

[Wacky D]

It really doesn't matter whether you agree that Kast was ever wildly popular. The point is before TRU 2 Da Game, No Limit was exactly where Three Six Mafia was before they dropped "Sippin On Syrup". So to leap frog them into A List status a d push Kast to B List status is laughable considering OutKast was a household name by the time No Limit blew in the mainstream.


Never said "Tear Da Club Up" was an across the board hit. And really most wouldn't have known about them before "Tear Da Club Up" because they were still underground. At that time, Tela and Eightball & MJG were like the only Memphis artists getting shine in the mainstream. So before 2000, Eightball & MJG would have been a tier above Three Six.

I don't recall, Silkk outshining Bone on a track. Silkk was never a double time rhymes. He just attempted to rap fast and ended up sounding closer to Serv-On rapping fast than any member of Bone. Silkk and them should've left that style to Mystikal as he was the only No Limit artist that was effortless with it.

AGAIN, I'm talking about when 36 mafia went major. Tru 2 da game was out like 8 months beforehand. What the hell are you arguing with me about? You're talking dumb.

Outkast wasn't no dam household name in the 90s.

Tela, 8ball & mjg were never mainstream. LOL.

Silkk rapped circles around bone on "hook it up". And his best album was his debut, which was mostly double-time. I'm not gonna hold you tho, you're right that he was never really classified as a double-time guy.

 

[Wacky D]

these nikkas about to be sad as shyt when Juicy J starts hitting these nikkas with early 90's joints that sound like they could came out in the past year

You think this is a good thing?

They gonna mess around and go out like fat joe wit that 2010s bull hit.

I’ve never even heard of some of these songs. They are going to get demolished if this is their 20.

In fairness, 36 mafia has a good 20. The problem is, their weirdo stans don't realize that 36 mafia is more of a singles group outside of their sector of hip-hop.

They really do have a a good potential set, plus a gang of cheat codes. They could indeed pull an upset on alot of groups of higher rank. Bone ain't one of them tho. They're too high up for 36 to be battling. But all 36 has to do is hold their own, since they have nothing to lose........and it helps that Bone will pick the wrong song thru like 35-40% of the battle.

Bone thugs will get washed because they won’t practice and it’s gonna sound like HOT shyt.

word to dip set

Bone be touring harder than most of the current young buls.

They prolly performing right now in Australia or some chit.

 

[JustCKing]

AGAIN, I'm talking about when 36 mafia went major. Tru 2 da game was out like 8 months beforehand. What the hell are you arguing with me about? You're talking dumb.

My point stands, we can't paint Three Six in 97 and 98 as C level and then act like No Limit catapulted to A List while placing Kast as B List.

Outkast wasn't no dam household name in the 90s.

They were performing on Martin, were in heavy rotation on MTV in the 90's.

Tela, 8ball & mjg were never mainstream. LOL.

They were. They weren't some mainstream superstars, but they were definitely mainstream. "Sho Nuff" and On Top Of The World era through In My Lifetime Vol. 1 Ball & G weren't underground. Anything prior to 1995 from them was definitely underground.