You can also check out the music video here.įeaturing Bun B Produced by David Banner “In the club first time in a year so/My shit still bang in the club from a year ago/Everybody tuned in to their stereo/Wanna hear the King kick it? Okay here we go…” Why? Tip gives us his best flow since he was released for federal: Everybody here does a good enough job, but unfortunately, the T.I. Maybe I was tired or preoccupied because now, THIS IS MY SHIT! For the beat (Nitti gave them a banger) to the chorus (The girl was a nice touch). This is the first track I heard off this album and on my initial listen, I kinda shrugged and moved on. The hook ( “Fat Boy from the town/With my nigga MJG”) makes people realize that almost nothing has changed with 8Ball & MJG as both go back and forth with ease. The album starts of with a hard-hitting beat from fellow Memphis native Drumma Boy (Who produced 3 other tracks on this album). Now they unleash their 8th album, Ten Toes Down. Recently, after releasing two album’s under Daddy’s Bad Boy South ( Living Legends & Ridin’ High), Ball & G made the jump to T.I.’s Grand Hustle imprint. Almost 20 years of making music Hip-Hop as well as influencing generations of upcoming rappers (Especially Southern rappers), the duo has a lot to be proud of.
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If Hip-Hop were professional sports, it’d be no arguing that 8Ball & MJG would make it in easy. Their eighth album as a group and their first on Grand Hustle, Ten Toes Down, was released in May 2010.Orange Mound, Memphis should be proud. In June 2008, the duo announced that they officially signed onto T.I.'s record label Grand Hustle. MJG released a solo album, Pimp Tight, on April 29, 2008. On April 1, 2008, 8Ball released Doin' It Big with E.D.I. of the Outlawz. In September 2007, 8Ball & MJG signed deals in Sacramento, California with Real Talk Entertainment. MJG heads MJG Muzik which features another Memphis duo, Da Volunteers, known for their 2006 single, "What's Yo Favorite Color?", which glorifies their neighborhood of Orange Mound. 8Ball heads 8 Ways Entertainment (distributed by Koch Entertainment). The song was a collaboration between two of Tennessee's most successful rap grond MJG also head their own record labels. Their second Bad Boy album Ridin High was released in March 2007.Ĭommercially one of the high points of 8Ball & MJG's career was their being featured on Three 6 Mafia's hit song " Stay Fly" in 2005 which peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. Their first album for Bad Boy, Living Legends, was released in 2004 and certified Gold. They already had some experience with the label, being featured on the song "The Player Way" from Bad Boy rapper Mase's 1997 album Harlem World. In the early 2000s, the duo signed with Sean Combs' Bad Boy Records. In 1997, they appeared on the Nothing To Lose soundtrack.
The CD, meant to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic among African American men, was heralded as "a masterpiece" by The Source magazine. In 1996, they appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation CD America is Dying Slowly alongside Biz Markie, Wu-Tang Clan, and Fat Joe, among many other prominent hip hop artists. One year later they released their fifth group album, Space Age 4 Eva.
They reunited in 1999 to release their fourth album as a group, In Our Lifetime, Vol. Subsequently, 8Ball & MJG released solo albums: MJG's No More Glory in 1997 and 8Ball's Lost in 1998. It includes the song "Space Age Pimpin'", 8Ball & MJG's first single to chart, reaching #58 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles and Tracks chart and #22 on the Hot Rap Singles chart. On Top of the World was particularly successful, peaking at #8 on the Billboard Hot 200 and being certified Gold. Their subsequent albums in the 1990s including 1994's On the Outside Looking In and 1995's On Top of the World further established their status among the South's rappers. In 1993, they released Comin' Out Hard on Suave House Records, the album was successful commercially as well as critically and established the group as a prominent act in the then emerging Southern Rap scene. Grand Hustle, E1 Music, Suave House Records, Bad Boy Records, Grand Rappa RecordingĨBall & MJG first appeared on the rap scene with KushLove,UncleSam, and Nude Panda. Southern hip hop, Crunk, Dirty rap, Hardcore rap Premro "8Ball" Smith, Marlon "MJG" Goodman