Key facts
- Also known as
- Triple Six Mafia Tear Da Club Up Thugs Backyard Posse Da Mafia 6ix 666 Mafia
- Origin
- Memphis, Tennessee , U.S.
- Genres
- Southern hip-hop gangsta rap horrorcore crunk
- Works
- Three 6 Mafia discography
- Years active
- 1991–2012 2019–present
- Labels
- Hypnotize Minds Prophet Columbia Sony Sony Urban Loud Relativity RED
- Members
- DJ Paul , Juicy J , Crunchy Black
- Past members
- Lord Infamous , Koopsta Knicca, Gangsta Boo
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Encyclopedic overview
Three 6 Mafia is an American hip-hop group from Memphis, Tennessee, formed in 1991. Emerging as a horror-themed underground hip-hop group, they went on to enjoy mainstream success. The group's 1995 debut album Mystic Stylez became an influential cult classic. They have released music on independent labels such as Prophet Entertainment and their own Hypnotize Minds label, as well as Relativity, Loud, and Columbia Records.
Two of their albums are RIAA-certified platinum: When the Smoke Clears: Sixty 6, Sixty 1 (2000) and Most Known Unknown (2005), with the latter featuring their hit single "Stay Fly". In 2006, the group won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 78th Academy Awards for their song "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp" from the film Hustle & Flow. The group's latest studio album, Last 2 Walk, was released in 2008. Three 6 Mafia's worldwide album sales stand at 5.5 million as of 2016.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Three 6 Mafia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.