901_Rice_Street
Rice AKA Clyde Drexler
R.I.P.
DjPolair
New member
R.I.P
61Key
New member
Damn man wow .. that's messed up, and they just got Da Mafia Six back up together too, with out that other guy of course, for whatever reason but yea R.I.P.
they don't know how he died so that means the conspiracy theories are right around the corner.. I hope not though, really though..
they don't know how he died so that means the conspiracy theories are right around the corner.. I hope not though, really though..
901_Rice_Street
Rice AKA Clyde Drexler
Bumpin this all day.
61Key
New member
Rice.... DOGG, that was my favorite shit at one point in time!!!!! glad you posted that... got it bumpin' right now as I type!!!! HELL YEA
bandcoach
Zukatoku - Mod Scientist
I'll do you one better; Rice: Sticky it for the next week! OK?
901_Rice_Street
Rice AKA Clyde Drexler
^^^^Thanks!
Woooooooooooooooo...haven't heard this in a minute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd3MuK6-W5k
Woooooooooooooooo...haven't heard this in a minute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd3MuK6-W5k
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61Key
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This looks like its from XXL.. but I'm not sure.. I copied and pasted this.. its a real good read.
On Friday (December 20), Lord Infamous, who was the
co-founding member of Three 6 Mafia, died from a heart attack at his mother’s
home in Memphis, Tenn. at the age of 40. As the hip-hop community mourned the
death of Infamous (born Ricky Dunigan), XXL got an opportunity to speak with DJ
Paul just hours after his half-brother passed away. During our conversation late
last night, Paul spoke about Lord Infamous’ legacy, what was going through his
mind upon hearing about Infamous’ death and what’s next for Da Mafia
6ix.–Emmanuel C.M.
XXL: Take me through what happened.
DJ Paul:
Basically, his girlfriend talked about going to his mom’s house. She was going
to come about one in the morning, late last night in the a.m. She was going to
come back and get him in the morning; I guess she was going to work. She was
going to come back and get him in the morning because they was going to get
their new place. He told her he was tired and was going to lie down. So she was
like, “Just make sure you be ready in the morning, we got to be there at 9
o’clock.” He was like, “Yeah OK, I’m just going to lie down.” I guess he was
fixing himself something to eat and put his head down on the table and she had
left. Then when his momma came, that’s how she found him. Still lying with his
head on his lap on the table. He had died from a heart attack in his
sleep.
Were there any signs?
Nah, there wasn’t, but you know, years
ago he had a small heart attack, a small stroke and I guess he just had
another.
How did you learn of his death?
They called me. His
girlfriend and his mom.
What was going through your mind when you heard
of his death?
I didn’t really believe it at first. They was like,“Rick died.”
I was like, “Ricky who?” I don’t know but one Ricky, I wasn’t prepared to hear
that. But at the same time I was kind of prepared because he was talking about
it lately. He told me like two weeks ago. And I don’t know if the doctors told
him this for real or he was ****ing with me. He was like, “I got like four
months to live, doctor told me because of my kidneys started back up from the
stroke.” I was like, “Get out of here.”
He was telling his momma last
week that he wanted to get right with everybody that he ever made mad in his
life. But he never made anybody mad because everybody loved him. People who had
hate me or Juicy or whatever, they always loved Lord Infamous. He was the nicest
dude in the world. If you didn’t have clothes, he would give you his shirt off
his back, literally. He would take it off and give it to you on the spot. He
didn’t care about money he just loved people and really loved kids. He loved
anybody that wasn’t doing well. He used to give homeless people money, he made
us pull the tour bus over and give money. He didn’t really care about money like
that or material stuff period.
Lately, he was so happy about everything
that was going on like the regroup of the crew. That was his idea. He fought for
that with me. He was like, “We got to do this.” It was supposed to be just me
and him bringing back Come With Me 2 Hell series. But he wanted to do the group
thing first, with the whole group. He always looking out for other people before
himself. He always lived like that. But lately he be talking about death and
this and that. I was like maybe he just excited about the group and it’s almost
like its too good to be true to him. He would be talking about how excited he
was. Then this shit happened.
When was the last time you saw him?
It
was two weeks ago, all of us did a show together in Knoxville. We were going to
be together this Friday to do a show and a couple videos. He was fine at the
show.
Do you have any knowledge of any major lingering effects after the
2010 stroke incident?
I don’t know. I wasn’t there. I flew in from town, he
lives in Memphis and I don’t. I flew in and he seemed like he was all right. He
just had to walk with a cane. He got his speech back together; he was getting
over the whole cane situation. He started to dance on stage, wildn’ just like
usual. But when he regularly walks, he just walks with a cane. You can tell he
can walk without it but just to be on the safe side, he walks with it. He came
all the way back after that. If you seen our last video, “Go Hard,” he was all
over the place. He had got back well from the stroke. He was telling me that the
doctor told him he may have kidney problems.
What do y’all have
planned?
We’re going to go with the same plan. Still continue to promote the
record and the mixtape we just put out. I still got a lot of songs that he did
for the next album. Still bringing that out in March 2014. That’s what he would
want. He fought for this group to be together, he was happy we were back
together because all of us grew up together. Still bring out the Come with Me 2
Hell re-mastered mixtapes that me and him did when we was young before Three 6
Mafia’s debut album came out. I had even announced it on Instagram four days ago
like I was going to put those out. Everyone was so excited. He’s a legend and an
icon to people. I’m still going to re-master it and send the money to his kids.
He has three boys. So I’m going to just split it up evenly three ways with
them.
Has a funeral date been set yet?
No, I’m going to do all that
tomorrow once they send his body to the funeral home.
Are there plans for
a public viewing for fans?
It’s on me if I decide to do it or not. I just got
to decide if I want to do that. If I want to just put it out there. People are
weird these days, I don’t want nobody ****ing with his grave or doing no stupid
shit. I just have to decide if I want to do all that.
What did Lord
Infamous mean to hip-hop? What was his legacy?
He was one of the creators of
crunk. We always say that the Three 6 Mafia created crunk, which we did it ain’t
no question about it. He was one of the ones that created it with us: Me, him
and Juicy. He was in the beginning. He was one of the creators of crunk and the
whole dark sound music with 808s and repetitive hooks that we did. All the drugs
and the stuff that we talked about before rappers were even ready to do
it.
Pimp C used to say, “Y’all been talking about them drugs, all these
other rappers rhyming do drugs but they don’t talk about like how y’all.” When I
came to him, I played “Sippin’ On Some Syrup,” he was like, “What this song
talking about? What? Y’all finna to go there with it.” And I was like, “Yeah.”
Then he said, “That’s why I like y’all, these other niggas be scared to talk
about that shit.” The whole crunk thing … the whole sound of the dirty South. It
ain’t even the dirty South anymore—it’s nationwide. They play it everywhere. He
helped create the sound that’s going on in hip-hop. He’s one of the reasons why
hip-hop still real—him, me and Juicy.
And the old tongue-twisting flow,
that’s where I mostly credit him with because back when we had the stupid little
beef back in the day with [Thugs-n-Harmony]. We was all kids, Bone didn’t really
steal our style. But they were from the Midwest where the Midwest tongue-twist
[came from]. They didn’t steal our style, I don’t think they did. All of us just
had the same idea because Twista was out tongue-twisting. He probably one of the
first people I heard doing it. But Lord Infamous did it different. Twista was
more like real fast and kept the same flow with it. Lord Infamous had a
different type of tongue-twisting. For one, our beats were slower and different
and he would mix different styles around the tongue-twist.
That’s why we
named our first album Mystic Stylez because we like to put different styles on
different verses to keep the song interesting. Basically they all kind of came
from him. If you listen to Project Pat’s album and he switching different styles
on his different verses, Lord Infamous was out before him, he was the one in the
group who came with different flows, which made others in the group come with
different flows. Me and Juicy were the beat guy and the hook guy. Lord Infamous
actually had a beat or two he made a baseline and I just filled the drums, but
he was the flower of the group.
Can you give me your earliest memory of
Lord Infamous before Three 6 Mafia?
Some of the first memories that stuck out
are when we were forming the rap group, just me and him in 1989 before Three 6
Mafia. We called ourselves The Serial Killers. We made an EP and it did pretty
good too. We used to go to this DJ named DJ Just Born. We used to pay him like
$35 to rent out the studio. We didn’t have any equipment. I had my momma’s
record player that I used to sneak and scratch on when she leaves.
So me
and him would get all the ideas together, we thought we was N.W.A. We just had
bandannas wrapped around our heads and this and that. We get all the ideas
together. I be like, “On this part of the hook I’m going to bring this record or
I’m going to scratch this. On this part of the hook I’m going to bring this
record and scratch this.” I had a bag of cassette tapes with different music. A
big ass bag of shit with just cassette tapes and records and raps and got my dad
to drop us off at Lord’s house. My dad would give us the $35, we go in there,
record the song, come back home and listen to this shit all day and all night.
And go in the bedroom and roll joints and take them to school the next day and
sell them [Laughs]. Wild days trying to get that money.
so the
doctors told him he had little time left....and kidney failure...damn
On Friday (December 20), Lord Infamous, who was the
co-founding member of Three 6 Mafia, died from a heart attack at his mother’s
home in Memphis, Tenn. at the age of 40. As the hip-hop community mourned the
death of Infamous (born Ricky Dunigan), XXL got an opportunity to speak with DJ
Paul just hours after his half-brother passed away. During our conversation late
last night, Paul spoke about Lord Infamous’ legacy, what was going through his
mind upon hearing about Infamous’ death and what’s next for Da Mafia
6ix.–Emmanuel C.M.
XXL: Take me through what happened.
DJ Paul:
Basically, his girlfriend talked about going to his mom’s house. She was going
to come about one in the morning, late last night in the a.m. She was going to
come back and get him in the morning; I guess she was going to work. She was
going to come back and get him in the morning because they was going to get
their new place. He told her he was tired and was going to lie down. So she was
like, “Just make sure you be ready in the morning, we got to be there at 9
o’clock.” He was like, “Yeah OK, I’m just going to lie down.” I guess he was
fixing himself something to eat and put his head down on the table and she had
left. Then when his momma came, that’s how she found him. Still lying with his
head on his lap on the table. He had died from a heart attack in his
sleep.
Were there any signs?
Nah, there wasn’t, but you know, years
ago he had a small heart attack, a small stroke and I guess he just had
another.
How did you learn of his death?
They called me. His
girlfriend and his mom.
What was going through your mind when you heard
of his death?
I didn’t really believe it at first. They was like,“Rick died.”
I was like, “Ricky who?” I don’t know but one Ricky, I wasn’t prepared to hear
that. But at the same time I was kind of prepared because he was talking about
it lately. He told me like two weeks ago. And I don’t know if the doctors told
him this for real or he was ****ing with me. He was like, “I got like four
months to live, doctor told me because of my kidneys started back up from the
stroke.” I was like, “Get out of here.”
He was telling his momma last
week that he wanted to get right with everybody that he ever made mad in his
life. But he never made anybody mad because everybody loved him. People who had
hate me or Juicy or whatever, they always loved Lord Infamous. He was the nicest
dude in the world. If you didn’t have clothes, he would give you his shirt off
his back, literally. He would take it off and give it to you on the spot. He
didn’t care about money he just loved people and really loved kids. He loved
anybody that wasn’t doing well. He used to give homeless people money, he made
us pull the tour bus over and give money. He didn’t really care about money like
that or material stuff period.
Lately, he was so happy about everything
that was going on like the regroup of the crew. That was his idea. He fought for
that with me. He was like, “We got to do this.” It was supposed to be just me
and him bringing back Come With Me 2 Hell series. But he wanted to do the group
thing first, with the whole group. He always looking out for other people before
himself. He always lived like that. But lately he be talking about death and
this and that. I was like maybe he just excited about the group and it’s almost
like its too good to be true to him. He would be talking about how excited he
was. Then this shit happened.
When was the last time you saw him?
It
was two weeks ago, all of us did a show together in Knoxville. We were going to
be together this Friday to do a show and a couple videos. He was fine at the
show.
Do you have any knowledge of any major lingering effects after the
2010 stroke incident?
I don’t know. I wasn’t there. I flew in from town, he
lives in Memphis and I don’t. I flew in and he seemed like he was all right. He
just had to walk with a cane. He got his speech back together; he was getting
over the whole cane situation. He started to dance on stage, wildn’ just like
usual. But when he regularly walks, he just walks with a cane. You can tell he
can walk without it but just to be on the safe side, he walks with it. He came
all the way back after that. If you seen our last video, “Go Hard,” he was all
over the place. He had got back well from the stroke. He was telling me that the
doctor told him he may have kidney problems.
What do y’all have
planned?
We’re going to go with the same plan. Still continue to promote the
record and the mixtape we just put out. I still got a lot of songs that he did
for the next album. Still bringing that out in March 2014. That’s what he would
want. He fought for this group to be together, he was happy we were back
together because all of us grew up together. Still bring out the Come with Me 2
Hell re-mastered mixtapes that me and him did when we was young before Three 6
Mafia’s debut album came out. I had even announced it on Instagram four days ago
like I was going to put those out. Everyone was so excited. He’s a legend and an
icon to people. I’m still going to re-master it and send the money to his kids.
He has three boys. So I’m going to just split it up evenly three ways with
them.
Has a funeral date been set yet?
No, I’m going to do all that
tomorrow once they send his body to the funeral home.
Are there plans for
a public viewing for fans?
It’s on me if I decide to do it or not. I just got
to decide if I want to do that. If I want to just put it out there. People are
weird these days, I don’t want nobody ****ing with his grave or doing no stupid
shit. I just have to decide if I want to do all that.
What did Lord
Infamous mean to hip-hop? What was his legacy?
He was one of the creators of
crunk. We always say that the Three 6 Mafia created crunk, which we did it ain’t
no question about it. He was one of the ones that created it with us: Me, him
and Juicy. He was in the beginning. He was one of the creators of crunk and the
whole dark sound music with 808s and repetitive hooks that we did. All the drugs
and the stuff that we talked about before rappers were even ready to do
it.
Pimp C used to say, “Y’all been talking about them drugs, all these
other rappers rhyming do drugs but they don’t talk about like how y’all.” When I
came to him, I played “Sippin’ On Some Syrup,” he was like, “What this song
talking about? What? Y’all finna to go there with it.” And I was like, “Yeah.”
Then he said, “That’s why I like y’all, these other niggas be scared to talk
about that shit.” The whole crunk thing … the whole sound of the dirty South. It
ain’t even the dirty South anymore—it’s nationwide. They play it everywhere. He
helped create the sound that’s going on in hip-hop. He’s one of the reasons why
hip-hop still real—him, me and Juicy.
And the old tongue-twisting flow,
that’s where I mostly credit him with because back when we had the stupid little
beef back in the day with [Thugs-n-Harmony]. We was all kids, Bone didn’t really
steal our style. But they were from the Midwest where the Midwest tongue-twist
[came from]. They didn’t steal our style, I don’t think they did. All of us just
had the same idea because Twista was out tongue-twisting. He probably one of the
first people I heard doing it. But Lord Infamous did it different. Twista was
more like real fast and kept the same flow with it. Lord Infamous had a
different type of tongue-twisting. For one, our beats were slower and different
and he would mix different styles around the tongue-twist.
That’s why we
named our first album Mystic Stylez because we like to put different styles on
different verses to keep the song interesting. Basically they all kind of came
from him. If you listen to Project Pat’s album and he switching different styles
on his different verses, Lord Infamous was out before him, he was the one in the
group who came with different flows, which made others in the group come with
different flows. Me and Juicy were the beat guy and the hook guy. Lord Infamous
actually had a beat or two he made a baseline and I just filled the drums, but
he was the flower of the group.
Can you give me your earliest memory of
Lord Infamous before Three 6 Mafia?
Some of the first memories that stuck out
are when we were forming the rap group, just me and him in 1989 before Three 6
Mafia. We called ourselves The Serial Killers. We made an EP and it did pretty
good too. We used to go to this DJ named DJ Just Born. We used to pay him like
$35 to rent out the studio. We didn’t have any equipment. I had my momma’s
record player that I used to sneak and scratch on when she leaves.
So me
and him would get all the ideas together, we thought we was N.W.A. We just had
bandannas wrapped around our heads and this and that. We get all the ideas
together. I be like, “On this part of the hook I’m going to bring this record or
I’m going to scratch this. On this part of the hook I’m going to bring this
record and scratch this.” I had a bag of cassette tapes with different music. A
big ass bag of shit with just cassette tapes and records and raps and got my dad
to drop us off at Lord’s house. My dad would give us the $35, we go in there,
record the song, come back home and listen to this shit all day and all night.
And go in the bedroom and roll joints and take them to school the next day and
sell them [Laughs]. Wild days trying to get that money.
so the
doctors told him he had little time left....and kidney failure...damn
901_Rice_Street
Rice AKA Clyde Drexler
^^^good read.
But that's how shit get twisted. They didn't know shit about "crunk". None of them dudes ever used the word "crunk" back then. So don't get it twisted when he say they started crunk. Crunk came from what they were doing.
And also....I have no problem with people using the sound of the south...I LOVE HOW IT SPREAD...I really do......but unlike dude...I HAVE A PROBLEM with people just GIVING IT AWAY to a point it's not a "southern" thing.
Got to watch what you say in these interview......it makes people like me look stupid for fighting for what is right....."like yeah yeah....DJ Paul said"....
Not trippin though. Just feel like a lot of dudes be selling out the south just to keep their own legacies strong. We..The South....made 3-6...they didn't make their selves.
Anyway....R.I.P Scarecrow....he is the REAL REASON til this day majority of the rappers in the south use that robotic, possessed type of flow. Not Bone or Twista. Get that understood right there.
But that's how shit get twisted. They didn't know shit about "crunk". None of them dudes ever used the word "crunk" back then. So don't get it twisted when he say they started crunk. Crunk came from what they were doing.
And also....I have no problem with people using the sound of the south...I LOVE HOW IT SPREAD...I really do......but unlike dude...I HAVE A PROBLEM with people just GIVING IT AWAY to a point it's not a "southern" thing.
Got to watch what you say in these interview......it makes people like me look stupid for fighting for what is right....."like yeah yeah....DJ Paul said"....
Not trippin though. Just feel like a lot of dudes be selling out the south just to keep their own legacies strong. We..The South....made 3-6...they didn't make their selves.
Anyway....R.I.P Scarecrow....he is the REAL REASON til this day majority of the rappers in the south use that robotic, possessed type of flow. Not Bone or Twista. Get that understood right there.
61Key
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yeah man When I first read that part I automatically thought about some of the FP disscusions and debates some of us have around here.. I personally think he was just throwing that part out there without giving it much indepth thought, because like you saying you bring up very strong points about it and I would have to agree with you.
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Married Gunslinger
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No disrespect,Sir Rice,but they did start crunk and coined the term. It started as "buck"..a lot of their earlier records had the vocal sample "geeet buuccck" in the background. I'm from North Memphis,by way of Chicago, and I've been following Three 6 since they were The Backyard Posse. I had all the original cassettes he's talking about in that interview..the "For Da Summa" series,"come with me 2 hell" and even Lord's debut "Lord of Terror"..all Pre-Three 6 releases. A lot of the current verses you hear are just recycled Lord Infamous verses from back then,especially on the CrazyNDaLazDayz album. The vocal sample on "Bodyparts",you know the hook 'robbem and shootem and killem and dumpem..dump all his bodyparts into my trunk', is from the original Bodyparts track and is K-Rock (little known original Prophet Posse/Killa Kaze member)..another pre-three 6 release. Juicy didn't until around 91.
Another thing I'd like to reaffirm is..whenever they had beef..their opponents usually did leave Lord out of it. Their most notable beef,at least here in Memphis, was with former Memphis heavyweight, Playa Fly. In his most famous and powerful track sent at Three 6,"Triple ***** Mafia", even he expressed a reluctance to diss Lord with the line,"Tricky Ricky Scarecrow,cooler than a fan,yo but reppin with triple *****..it's nothin but ana hoe". Frayser Boy , who left HCP on bad terms, was all over Lord's last album,ironically called "Back From The Dead: Deadly Proverbs".
I also wanna say shout out to the mods for stickying this...much respect. I met Lord a few times back when I was heavy into this rap ish and he was indeed everything Paul said. Super cool and was all about the music. I remember I was at a session where he rapped about being dead for a few moments and experiencing Hell. I don't believe in any of that s*** but damn I somehow believe dude experienced something,probably a coma induced dream sequence. That was way too much detail tho. You can hear the track on his album Scarecrow The Terrible vol.1.
Another thing I'd like to reaffirm is..whenever they had beef..their opponents usually did leave Lord out of it. Their most notable beef,at least here in Memphis, was with former Memphis heavyweight, Playa Fly. In his most famous and powerful track sent at Three 6,"Triple ***** Mafia", even he expressed a reluctance to diss Lord with the line,"Tricky Ricky Scarecrow,cooler than a fan,yo but reppin with triple *****..it's nothin but ana hoe". Frayser Boy , who left HCP on bad terms, was all over Lord's last album,ironically called "Back From The Dead: Deadly Proverbs".
I also wanna say shout out to the mods for stickying this...much respect. I met Lord a few times back when I was heavy into this rap ish and he was indeed everything Paul said. Super cool and was all about the music. I remember I was at a session where he rapped about being dead for a few moments and experiencing Hell. I don't believe in any of that s*** but damn I somehow believe dude experienced something,probably a coma induced dream sequence. That was way too much detail tho. You can hear the track on his album Scarecrow The Terrible vol.1.
901_Rice_Street
Rice AKA Clyde Drexler
Pretty much what I was saying. Crunk (the music) came from what they were doing. But the word "crunk" is an ATL slang.Example of getting crunk was bankhead bouncing to 180 bpm music. DJ's would speed the booty shake music up and everybody would get wild.
This is crunk.
Three 6 Mafia - Tear Da Club Up (Get Crunk & Tear It Up Remix .. by DJ Herb) [Clean Version] - YouTube
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I remember that single...won the cassette for it in 5th grade at a school dance...however...Three 6 were saying crunk in 94...find me one ATL dude that said it before them. I'll make it even easier...find me an ATL rapper that said crunk before THree 6 dropped "Who Da Crunkest?".
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ny invented hip hop therefore , we indirectly started crunk.
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KaMoKRNE
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Arsalan
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R.I.P! I'm in tears!