I’ll be a part of that check.You can call me gold mouth, that's what I said They will sample songs which will bring me right back into the picture. So I will be long gone out the music world probably 20 years from now, and guys like ASAP Ferg will be the old-school cats that the new guys will be sampling. Think about this, too: maybe 10-15 years from now, they will be sampling those guys who sampled us, and I will get paid from that, as well. Can we expect another revival in 2030?ĭJP: I think so, man. You're on life number three at this point. The craziest thing is that right now is your second career revival after your historic Oscar win in 2006 for "It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp". 2 Chainz, Migos: these people went public on Instagram saying that I had the hardest one. There are other ones that get a lot more views, but nobody's was harder than mine. My “Who Run It” ended up being the one a lot of people liked the most. When I first saw, I was a little upset, because they don't even know what this song is and they’re shouting out the wrong people. So that's what made it go together so great: ‘cause he did that and he did it well. It's gotta sound almost like a new person just stepped up to the mic.” That's what I told him and he did it. So I said, “Pat, you on your own so what you’re going to have to do is change up your flow on every verse. You want to see what the next person is going to do.
It kept the songs interesting because of all the different people. Juicy don't sound like me, and I don't sound like Juicy, Crunchy don't sound like none of us, and Koopsta Knicca don't sound like nobody else in the world. I told him, it's going to be harder for you because what makes Three 6 Mafia so unique is like the title of our first album, Mystic Stylez: we have different people who sound different. Pat was like a dude who was in Three 6 Mafia, but he wasn't.
How did Pat come up with his distinctive rapping style?ĭJP: We actually trained Pat to be how he is. What influenced me with Three 6 and Hypnotize Minds was that Paul and Juicy J made the beats, so it was a straight original sound. Three 6 was doing that turn-up, hype music. I got that idea and vibe from Scarface, and when I talk about women, I got those ideas from Too Short. That’s why my music goes towards storytelling. Project Pat: Me personally, I always was a Scarface and Too Short fan. Between me being in love with horror movies and having an organ, which is a creepy instrument anyway, that all just went hand-in-hand and made it happen. He would put me in organ lessons, and he bought me an organ that I still have-a $5,000 organ he bought for me back in 1985 when I was a kid. And I was like, “Dad, I don’t think that’s going to happen.” But I would try. ĭJP: My daddy always used to tell me that I was going to be the next Michael Jackson. After that, I went to the regular mixtapes on TDK tapes.
The group was called the Serial Killaz, and the name of the tape was Portrait of a Serial Killa. The conversations, which happened separately, have been combined here.ĭJ Paul: We came out the door with an EP-artwork, cover pressed up, shrink wrapped, and everything. To get to the bottom of how a crew that began in the early 1990s (and that already had one previous career revival in the mid-aughts) became instrumental to so many of today’s most popular songs, we spoke to Three 6 co-founder DJ Paul and longtime affiliate Project Pat. Cole’s “No Role Modelz” to Cardi B’s “Bickenhead” to ASAP Rocky’s “Gunz N Butter,” songs by Three 6, Project Pat, and other artists from the influential Memphis crew are the backbone of some of the biggest hits of the past few years. From Rae Sremmurd on “Powerglide” to ASAP Ferg on “Plain Jane” to G-Eazy’s “No Limit” to J. In the uncertain world of the music business, there seems to be one surefire way to make a hit song: sample or interpolate something from the Three 6 Mafia family.