Most Known Hits [PA]

Performer: Three 6 Mafia
Artist: DJ Kayslay; Mike Jones; Kanye West; Project Pat; Frayser Boy; Paul Wall; Young Buck; Eightball; Slim Thug; MJG; Lil' Flip; Lil Wyte
Producer: DJ Paul; Juicy J
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Three 6 Mafia: Chat, Hypnotize Camp Posse, Project Pat, Tear Da Club Up Thugs, UGK, Lil' Flip, Boogieman. Memphis's Three 6 Mafia had been slugging it out for over a decade and a half before they really hit the mainstream consciousness with their exhilarating performance at the 2006 Academy Awards. 2005's MOST KNOWN HITS is an appropriate introduction to the group led by Juicy J and DJ Paul. The album features album highlights dating back to 1997 and their album CHAPTER 2: WORLD DOMINATION, generally considered their breakthrough-it was certainly the first that made them a name outside of regional radio. Three 6's songs do tend to begin sounding the same: Simple 808 beats under mostly sparse synths, as the rappers boast about bitches and weed, while threatening their detractors. This type of hip-hop is made for parties, and thus the greatest-hits package finds hits like "Sippin' on Some Syrup" and "Hit a Muthafucka" better served than on their respective albums where they might get lost amid the filler. MOST KNOWN UNKNOWN, Three 6 Mafia's second 2005 release, perfectly sums up the Memphis rap outfit's position in the hip-hop universe. The collective flies remarkably under the radar for a band who bounced hard & grimy rhymes off each other long before the South became nationally known as dirty, but their influence spans far and wide in Southern rap thanks to their release of consistently arresting records. MOST KNOWN UNKNOWN finds the rhymes racing at a hypnotically frenzied pace from Young Buck-toting "Stay Fly" to the sinister, crawling "Half On A Sack."

Vibe (p.150) - 4 discs out of 5 - "Juicy J and DJ Paul deftly retool the formula by sliding soul samples and unexpected instruments into UNKNOWN's mix."

With the possible exception of Eightball & MJG, no single act has done more to put Memphis hip-hop on the map than siz-erp sippin' gangstas Three 6 Mafia. The group's woozy proto-Dirty South style dates back to the early 1990s, and was brought to as large an audience as can be imagined, thanks to their 2006 Oscar-wining theme song for the acclaimed film HUSTLE & FLOW, "It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp."

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