Many rappers have sampled Hutch's soundtracks for The Mack and Foxy Brown, but there are so many great DJ Paul and Juicy J productions built on Hutch songs, including some of their most famous tracks like "Stay Fly" and "Int'l Players Anthem." So I included some lesser known Hutch-based tracks including "Testin' My Gangsta" (sampling "Theme Of The Mack," later used on the hit "Poppin' My Collar"), "Don't Cha Get Mad" (sampling "Sunshine Lady") and "Hood Star" (sampling "Color Her Sunshine," also used a year later on Rick Ross's "Rich Off Cocaine"). Some rap producers have repeatedly sampled different songs from the same artist, but I don't know if anybody's gotten more out of a particular artist's discography than Three 6 Mafia have gotten out of sampling Willie Hutch. It's a top shelf album, too, "Triple Six Clubhouse" has one of my favorite mid-song beat switches in rap history, that and "When God Calls Time Out" are some of Lord Infamous's best solo tracks. I didn't get into the various solo albums and affiliated groups and Underground compilations, with the exception of CrazyNDaLazDayz, which is essentially a Three 6 Mafia album that was credited to Tear Da Club Up Thugs in an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of the song "Tear Da Club Up." That album is pretty much canonically a Three 6 record, the group's then-core lineup basically doing their usual sound, it actually charted higher than any of their proper albums had at that point, and "Slob On My Knob" has become one of their most enduring songs, appearing on best-of comps like Most Known Hits. It's also fun to listen back and hear famous ideas in their infancy, like the opening bars of "Slob On My Knob" appearing over a year earlier on "Whatcha Do," and the first "yeah ho" loop popping up on "Mafia N****z," or the first versions of songs they kept doing sequels and remakes of for years like "Body Parts." And though they backed off on some of the satanic horrorcore shock value stuff over the years, they really created the blueprint for the more dark and aggressive strains of crunk and trap that eventually became mainstream. Three 6 really refined and perfected their sound over the course of a decade, but it's kind of remarkable that it was pretty much there from the beginning, their signature snare drum sound doesn't slap as hard on Mystic Styles as it did on later albums but it was already there. Tracks 18, 19 and 20 from Most Known Unknown (2005) Tracks 15, 16 and 17 from Da Unbreakables (2003) Tracks 11, 12 and 13 from When The Smoke Clears: Sixty 6, Sixty 1 (2000) Tracks 9 and 10 from CrazyNDaLazDayz by Tear Da Club Up Thugs (1999) Tracks 6, 7 and 8 from Chapter 2: World Domination (1997) Tracks 3, 4 and 5 from Chapter 1: The End (1996) Don't Cha Get Mad featuring Lil Flip and Mr. Are U Ready 4 Us featuring Dayton Familyġ9. Dis) featuring Kingpin Skinny Pimp and Playa FlyĨ. Three 6 Mafia deep album cuts ( Spotify playlist):Ģ.
Three 6 are one of the greatest southern rap groups of all time and I feel like their legacy and influence has really aged well over the past decade.
Three 6 Mafia are starting a reunion tour in March, and even though it's bittersweet that it won't include Lord Infamous and Koopsta Knicca, who died in 20 respectively, it's pretty cool that DJ Paul, Juicy J, Crunchy Black, Gangsta Boo, and HCP extended family like Project Pat, La Chat, and Lil Wyte will be back on the road.
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