![]() I'm sure you get asked about your Oscar a lot. Man, when it comes to a secret world government, there's no telling. When I interviewed Gunplay, he told me about the secret world government. ![]() I have some of my own beats on there, but I also wanted to give some young producers a chance to do their thing, and I just took the tracks they gave me and added my own stuff to give them my own feel. On my album, I didn't produce the whole thing but I oversaw everything. How much production are you doing these days? That's what we call something that sounds good. ![]() What do you look for when you're sampling a song?īump. Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, things of that nature. It makes the sound more national, but it kills the fun of having East Coast rap, West Coast rap. Back in the day, New York wouldn't play West Coast or Dirty South and stuff like that. It's good that our sound doesn't get canceled out by radio stations anymore. The Internet and the Dirty South took over hip-hop so strongly. It seems like the idea of "regionalism" in hip-hop is breaking down. ![]() The beat was kind of different, especially for that time. I was trying to base it off the feel of a New York-sounding record, with an old-school sample thrown in. I would let a whole two bars go past before I would even add a snare. Probably "Who Run It." When I made that beat, I made it a little different. What is your favorite song you've ever made? I'm a rapper it's kinda hard to turn 'em down. What is your relationship with women like? Any platonic relationships? You want their kids? I'm sure they'd give 'em to you.ĭJ Paul also has a cooking channel. I know kids that are sixteen that have kids. You want my son? You can have his bad ass. That's why I don't always spoil him as much as I could. It's not always good to grow up with a silver spoon in your mouth. Are you happy he doesn't have to go through the same stuff that you did growing up? I wouldn't have been the same me if I'd grown up anywhere else. I wouldn't have wanted to grow up nowhere else. It was what helped create that sound, growing up in a ratchet environment. A lot of people these days are starting to do the dark sound like us. I brought that back a little more this time. I want you to feel the power.Ī lot of your early mixtapes had a very dark, murky sound. Matter of fact, I'm finna pray over this beverage right here if you don't mind. But don't most Satanists grow up in the church? Nah, I'm not into Satan. I mean, Juicy’s daddy is a preacher for crying out loud. Nah, I usually just laugh it off because we're far from that. When people ask me if I'm into Satan, I usually hold them down and carve an upside-down five-point star into their chest. I said your name was DJ Paul and you were in a group called Three 6 Mafia, and she asked if you were a Satanist. I told my mom that I was interviewing you. And even to today, I still sample his original voice. My brother Lord Infamous was just rapping one day, and he said that our group was a "Triple Six Mafia." I said, "Oh, that's pretty cool," so I just started sampling it on our songs. We started out as Triple Six Mafia, which turned into Three 6 Mafia. We thought it'd be cool if we did a tape together, and we ended up combining our two crews. I was the hottest on the South side of Memphis, he was the hottest on the North side. Noisey: How did Three 6 Mafia get started? You were in high school, right?ĭJ Paul: Yeah. At one point, he made me pray with him over our beers. Throughout the course of the dinner, we discussed Three 6’s history, Paul’s parenting philosophy, and what it’s like to win an Oscar. He explained that it was the result of a collaboration with Supreme, and it looked pretty sweet. Paul was wearing a shirt with his own face on it. It was the day after Fashion’s Night Out, and he and Juicy J had united to play a Supreme party the night before. This past Friday I met Paul, his publicist, and a couple associates at a fancy Thai restaurant on St. The early Three 6 sound, a beyond-dank thump that sounded like the soundtrack to a horror movie, has seen a revived interest amongst hip-hop tastemakers as well, with underground kids such as SpaceGhostPurrp and Lil’ Ugly Mane hitting paydirt by more or less ripping off an entire style.
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