Video: Juicy J, “Let’s Get High”
- story Matthew Schnipper
At 1:18 of this video, Juicy J, of Three Six Mafia, walks at the camera, at you, offering a pipe and lighter. It’s got a “first taste is free” vibe, the menace of the supposedly friendly dealer. It’s not an unmenacing song, either, could certainly fit plenty well as track seven on Triple Six’s umpteenth album. But there’s something a little more magical about “Let’s Get High,” and that’s probably Juicy’s specific listing of imbibings: Ecstasy pills, Xanax pills and some Percoset goes the chorus, heavy emphasis on pills, as though he wants you to know he’s not into liquid ecstasy. It reads like a Law and Order rundown of drugs found on a criminal. Then he lists them off, counting off with numberless fingers against a column in a parking garage: Ambien, Oxycontin pills, let’s do all that/ Let’s get high let’s get high let’s get high. Wonder if DJ Paul just didn’t want on this track and that’s why it’s a solo joint. Still works clean and sober Monday afternoon—welcome to the work week.
Freeload: Project Pat f. OJ Da Juiceman, “Keep It Hood”
- story THE FADER
During the Three 6 Mafia show “Adventures In Hollyhood,” Project Pat always seemed to stay just far enough out of the camera shots and promo pictures that his musical credibility never took the hit that the group’s did. He must have foreseen how Juicy J trying to get a date with Kristin Cavallari could slightly undermine his netherworld d-boy superhero persona. Pat was also wise enough to know that he still had shit like this in the stash.
Download: Project Pat f. OJ Da Juiceman, “Keep It Hood”
Freeload: Three 6 Mafia f. Project Pat, Spanish Fly, Al Kapone, Eightball & MJG, “First 48″
- story THE FADER
Triple Six’s long-delayed Last 2 Walk finally came out this past Tuesday, and it’s precisely as disappointing as an entire season of Adventures in Hollyhood would lead you to expect. Are these guys in a competition with Cam to see who can fall off harder from their mid-decade heights? And if we follow that thought to it’s logical conclusion, does that make Crunchy Black the Jim Jones of Hypnotize Minds? We’re babbling, sorry. Still, the disc does have an inspired moment or two. “First 48″ is a haunted house collaboration between Memphis old heads that doubles as an-all FADER posse cut, with
Juice and Paul (F34) alongside Project Pat and Spanish Fly (both in F40), Al Kapone (F31), and Eightball & MJG (F37). The other keeper on the LP is “Rollin,” where Lil Wyte raps about ecstasy over a piano riff that sounds like the outro to a Faith No More song, but we couldn’t plug back issues if we linked that one.
Download: Three 6 Mafia f. Project Pat, Spanish Fly, Al Kapone, Eightball & MJG, “First 48″
Audio: Three 6 Mafia f. UGK, “On Sum Chrome”
- story THE FADER
This beat is a total return to form for Triple 6, dark and all over the place. It also includes a totally charismatic verse from Pimp C about the support (and stuff) he got after he was released from jail. Funny and touching at the same time.
