When hip-hop started 50 years ago, it's fair to say that for most record labels, it was pretty much just a curiosity. By the 1990s, though, it had become a big business. But for artists working ...

Rapper Gangsta Boo (aka Lola Chantrelle Mitchell, Lady Boo, Queen of Memphis, The Devil’s Daughter) of the hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia, appears in a portrait taken in 2001 in New York City. (Photo: Al ...

Like all musical forms, no one person can definitively say they started or invented Memphis rap, though there are plenty of seminal figures who were crucial in the development of the genre, from DJ ...

On this day in Hip Hop history, 25 years ago, Memphis underground legends Three 6 Mafia released their fourth studio album, When the Smoke Clears: Sixty 6, Sixty 1. Ironically debuting at #6 on the ...

In 1995, the Memphis hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia took a shoestring DIY approach to recording their debut album, Mystic Stylez. Their example led... When hip-hop started 50 years ago, it was just a ...

The Oscar winner spoke to Nas and Miss Info about the Memphis crew parting ways. Three 6 Mafia and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony are set to go head-to-head in the next Verzuz battle. The musical matchup ...

GloRilla and Offset recently adopted the Hypnotize Minds sound. Three 6 Mafia is one of the most acclaimed Hip Hop groups to emerge from the South. Members of the collective, such as Juicy J, have won ...

Los Angeles–based multi-instrumentalist and producer Nate Franchesco continues to carve out a unique creative lane by merging ...

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Gangsta Boo was born Lola Chantrelle Mitchell on Aug. 7, 1979, in the Whitehaven area of Memphis, Tenn., and began rapping at age 14. In 1994, when she was only 15 years old, she joined the ...