"I just try and keep the guys up to date on it because I know a lot of these guys are just like me back in the day, they was in the streets," Paul explained DJ Paul will be diving into an array of subjects while remaining the “Hood News Man,” as he calls it. That's the point of his newly relaunched Mafia Radio podcast with HotNewHipHop. "$4,500 to make the first Three 6 Mafia album and that shit probably turned into $450 million worth of shit over time, but that's how it started."ĭJ Paul's entrepreneurial spirit is a reflection of his overall interests, be it food or real estate. "Me and Juicy paid $2,250 each," DJ Paul told HNHH about making the first Three 6 Mafia project.
The local fame snowballed into national success that molded the Three 6 Mafia empire.
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In a tale that's being groomed for a TV series, DJ Paul's beginnings started when he was hustling mixtapes at school before ultimately landing a distribution deal with Select-O-Hits - an independent distributor owned by the Phillips family who put out Elvis' records. Paul and Juicy J's humble beginnings in Memphis transformed into a giant empire that has claimed a stake in Southern hip-hop. Meanwhile, Travis Scott, Rae Sremmurd, and Cardi B are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to artists who've sampled or repurposed Three 6 Mafia tracks to their own success in recent years. DJ Paul and Juicy J created this eerie, dark sound that inspired the uptick in rappers using the triplet flows that Lord Infamous introduced. As hip-hop's reached its pinnacle of popularity in the past five years, Three 6 Mafia's influence has become inescapable. With nearly three decades in the music industry, Three 6 Mafia's influence has been heard across the board. DJ Paul recounts one of his final encounters with John Singleton, artists paying homage to Three 6 Mafia, and how hustling mixtapes in high school brokered peace with the ops.
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