Reuters - Jun 13, 2008
What do you do after becoming the first African-American rap group to win an Academy Award for best song? If you're Three 6 Mafia, you stay focused on what brought you to the game in the first place...
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They have lyrics such as Tequila makes her clothes fall off and Breakin down the good weed, rollin' the blunt/Ghetto pimp tight girls say I'm the man. U.S. popular music is awash with lyrics...
More »E! Online - Aug 15, 2007
UGK just took the high ground on the charts. The veteran rap duo, whose initials are short for Underground Kingz, officially entered the mainstream with their first chart-topping album in a 15-year...
More »E! Online - Dec 1, 2006
It s not as hard out there if you reach a settlement. Three 6 Mafia paid out an undisclosed sum last month to a Pittsburgh man who was suing the Oscar-winning rap group, claiming he was severely...
More »AP - Nov 30, 2006
Rap group Three 6 Mafia has settled a lawsuit by a suburban Pittsburgh teenager who claimed he was severely beaten at a concert when fans followed lyrics of the song Let s Start A Riot. Ramone Williams...
More »E! Online - Sep 21, 2006
It may be hard out there for a pimp, but for a group of Oscar-winning rappers, life s not too bad. Three 6 Mafia, who earlier this year delivered one of the most exuberant acceptance speeches in...
More »AP - Sep 20, 2006
Having won Oscars earlier this year, the members of rap group Three 6 Mafia are heading next to Emmy domain television. MTV announced Wednesday that the rap group will star in a new reality comedy...
More »AP - Sep 4, 2006
Academy Award-winning rap group Three 6 Mafia asked for the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by man who claimed he was severely beaten at a concert when fans followed lyrics of the song Let s Start A Riot...
More »E! Online - Mar 30, 2006
Three 6 Mafia just made it easier out there for an heiress. The Oscar-winning rappers said Tuesday that they will produce and record tracks for Paris Hilton s upcoming debut album, which has been...
More »USRN - Mar 13, 2006
Former Three 6 Mafia member Koopsta Knicca was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and robbery on March 5 -- the same day that his former group members rocked the stage at the Academy Awards...
More »AP - Mar 5, 2006
Forget the suspense over best movie or actor or actress the real question on Oscar night was whether Three 6 Mafia could actually perform a cuss-free, non-graphic version of It s Hard Out Here...
More »Yahoo! Music - Feb 27, 2006
Three 6 Mafia will make Oscar history this Sunday, March 5, when they perform the first rap song ever at the 78th Academy Awards. The Memphis rap group s theme from Hustle & Flow, It s Hard Out Here...
More »USRN - Mar 20, 2002
(3/20/02, 10 a.m. ET) -- A federal jury found Three 6 Mafia affiliate Project Pat (Patrick Houston) guilty on two counts of possession of a firearm by a felon last week in Jackson, Tennessee. The rapper...
More »USRN - Dec 27, 2000
(12/27/00, 6 p.m. ET) - Memphis-based hip-hop outfit Three 6 Mafia recently scored its first platinum album, When The Smoke Clears: Sixty 6, Sixty 1, which has sold more than 1 million copies. Fueled...
More »USRN - Nov 16, 2000
(11/16/00, 10 a.m. ET) - Three 6 Mafia affiliate Project Pat is preparing for the release of his third album, Mista Don t Play, which is scheduled for a February 6 release. Best known for his Ballers...
More »USRN - Aug 9, 2000
(8/8/00, 5 p.m. ET) - Although Three 6 Mafia s new album, When The Smoke Clears, will likely be the group s best-selling set so far, the members of the Memphis, Tennessee-based sextet don t think they...
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