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It was just, like, we meshed everything together.”įor years after its 1995 release, Mystic Stylez was held as an underground gem that presented the foundation for the group’s core sound and identity, as their later, gold and platinum-selling albums would have more of an immediate impact on hip-hop, commercially, and culturally. “…We had the gangsta mixed with the sinister, mixed with the Memphis sound. “Like, our songs sounded like a movie,” Gangsta Boo said in the same episode of Hip-Hop Evolution. From “Break Da Law ’95,” which samples music from Wes Craven’s New Nightmare and features Paul menacingly rapping, “Fool it ain’t no game, you gotta die, the devil sent me / Six in yo chest, who’s next, no niceness in me,” to “ Tear Da Club Up” and its many, many occult references - Lord Infamous’ verse alone is pure nightmare fuel - Mystic Stylez basked in its darkness, grounding its horror movie-inspired lyrics with memorable, angst-filled hooks.īut just as important as the lyrical content was Three 6’s distinct sound: a smoked-out, haunting, lo-fi quality that was the result of a low budget - $4,500 to be exact, as Paul explained in the same episode of Hip-Hop Evolution - something that the group wouldn’t have been able to achieve with a polished major-label release.

It’s all debauchery.”Ĭompared to other notable horrorcore works, Mystic Stylez was able to stand the test of time because the content was an appropriate balance of gleefully macabre and vividly disturbing hood tales told with skilled lyricism and flows. “It was, like, this young, cocaine-snorting, gangsta-ass Memphis shit.

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“It spoke to a different generation of Memphis,” rapper 8Ball said of the album while appearing in the Netflix series Hip-Hop Evolution.

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These elements, infused with dirty, eerie lo-fi production, triplet flows, horror movie and soul samples, pulsating bass, and 808s, resulted in the southern horror classic that is Mystic Stylez.

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Horrorcore rap was starting out at the time, and DJ Paul and Lord Infamous were lovers of the occult, horror flicks, and real-life serial killers.

Mystic Stylez - and to a greater extent the Memphis rap scene ⁠- drew from a city that became notorious for its murder rate, robberies, and pimp culture, as well as the gang and project wars that terrorized Black Memphis. Although the album would not be the one to break them in mainstream hip-hop, Mystic Stylez was a groundbreaking rap record that eventually became a cult classic, impacting a generation of young rappers that came to represent the underbelly of the genre throughout the 2010s. In May 1995, Three 6 Mafia made their debut with Mystic Stylez. Source: Artist Released on May 23rd 1995, Three 6 Mafia’s debut album, Mystic Stylez, has grown from being an underground favorite to one of the most influential rap records of all time.