But now his project is out and mine will be out of the way soon we might be able to talk about it.” Will we ever see the release of yours and Juicy’s ‘Cashing Checks’ album? So between both of us working on stuff and the prepping for the tour, that was in the way. I’m working on a solo album and there’s also the producing I’ve been doing for other people, like Lil Baby and Trippie Redd. “Well, Juicy was working on his solo album. CREDIT: Press Is there anything in particular stopping it from happening? We’ve actually not had a single conversation about it.” Would you like to do one? That was the label situation, but why did you and Juicy J to go your separate ways? Our last album was called ‘Laws Of Power’. We weren’t feeling the situation and ended up not putting out another album. They wanted us to go pop and they wanted to turn us into a UK group because it was ran by UK people at the time. We weren’t comfortable with bringing out any new Three 6 Mafia stuff with the label in the position it was in. At that time Sony was going, Columbia and Island was going through a lot of transitioning, and they brought in some guys from the UK. “It really was just down to the label not being together. So we just felt that this was probably the best time to come back.” What was it exactly that caused you guys to split? On top of that, with what’s going on with the music scene right now, with everybody redoing old Three 6 Mafia songs we’re more popular now than we were when we were putting out music. “It was all about timing and it felt right for everybody. What prompted Three 6 Mafia to reunite after all this time? We sat down with Paul on a Zoom call from his LA home to talk about what brought Three 6 Mafia back together, what the group’s lasting legacy will be and whether or not he and Juicy will ever release their long sought-after ’Cashing Checks’ album. Now they’re back together after an 11-year hiatus – and it’s time DJ Paul and Juicy J received their dues. Three 6 Mafia have been sampled by Rae Sremmurd (‘Powerglide’) and James Blake (‘200 Press’), produced hits for Drake (‘Talk Up’) and Megan Thee Stallion (‘Simon Says’) and appeared on tracks with Katy Perry (‘Dark Horse’) and Justin Timberlake (‘Chop Me Up’), not to mention the fact that they were the first rap group to win an Oscar in 2006 (“It’s Hard out Here for a Pimp”, from Hustle & Flow). They formed in the early ’90s and on 2000’s ‘Jus Like Us’, Paul boldly rapped: “ They wanna dress like / Wanna sound like / Wanna be like / Ride like / Get high like / Make cheese like / The motherfukin’ Three-6, bitch you got a problem wit ‘em?” That was 20 years ago and artists today are still being influenced by the Memphis rap group. For years, Three 6 Mafia, consisting of co-founders DJ Paul and Juicy J, have been telling us that they are responsible for a lot of what’s been going on in hip-hop.
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