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8 Ball and MJG are a U.S. Southern Hip-hop duo from Memphis, Tennessee.
8 Ball & MJG may have never made a significant impact nationally during their rise to fame in the 1990s, yet they indeed made an incredible impact throughout the South. The two began on the Southern underground circuit, where they peddled their tapes in such major markets as Memphis, Houston, and Atlanta. After a few years of this, 8 Ball & MJG helped launch Suave House Records in 1993 and attract a pair of national distribution deals soon afterward. By the end of the ’90s, just as the Dirty South movement broke nationally, the duo issued their final Suave House album, In Our Lifetime, Vol. 1 (1999), and declared themselves Southern rap pioneers.
8 Ball (Premro Smith) and MJG (Marlon Jermaine Goodwin) grew up in the rough Orange Mound area of Memphis and met at Ridgeway Junior High in 1984. They shared a passion for hip-hop, which hadn’t yet made a strong impact in the South, and soon formed a partnership. After years of mixtape work, later re-released on the Lyrics of a Pimp (1997) and Memphis Under World (2000) compilations, the two started Suave House Records with CEO Tony Draper. The label released Eightball MJG’s debut full-length, Comin’ Out Hard (1993), was produced entirely by the duo and popularized by the song “Armed Robbery,” and which gained them a cult following.
8 Ball & MJG may have never made a significant impact nationally during their rise to fame in the 1990s, yet they indeed made an incredible impact throughout the South. The two began on the Southern underground circuit, where they peddled their tapes in such major markets as Memphis, Houston, and Atlanta. After a few years of this, 8 Ball & MJG helped launch Suave House Records in 1993 and attract a pair of national distribution deals soon afterward. By the end of the ’90s, just as the Dirty South movement broke nationally, the duo issued their final Suave House album, In Our Lifetime, Vol. 1 (1999), and declared themselves Southern rap pioneers.
8 Ball (Premro Smith) and MJG (Marlon Jermaine Goodwin) grew up in the rough Orange Mound area of Memphis and met at Ridgeway Junior High in 1984. They shared a passion for hip-hop, which hadn’t yet made a strong impact in the South, and soon formed a partnership. After years of mixtape work, later re-released on the Lyrics of a Pimp (1997) and Memphis Under World (2000) compilations, the two started Suave House Records with CEO Tony Draper. The label released Eightball MJG’s debut full-length, Comin’ Out Hard (1993), was produced entirely by the duo and popularized by the song “Armed Robbery,” and which gained them a cult following.
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shortyugly316 wrote:
TN!!!
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dadaproletariat wrote:
incredibly underrated. ill be honest, i havent given much of a listen to anything past the first couple albums, but those are just fucking amazing.
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Dance08 wrote:
MJG has been such a beast in the past couple albums !!
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AlwaysBenji wrote:
Dope M-Town rapz.
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GADirtyBird wrote:
They don't have very good representation on this site.
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Reverser91 wrote:
Pimp In My Own Rhyme has that classic M-Town sound from 90s, love this track
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GADirtyBird wrote:
Why isn't their older stuff on here?
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adamsfc wrote:
http://www.last.fm/group/Trap+Music
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jgreer3000 wrote:
I'd be obliged if you step outside, Because my ride is awaitin!!!!
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_tsk_ wrote:
ridin' high is dope!
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hypnotizemuzic wrote:
8ball & MJG scrobbling......Eightball & MJG scrobbling...... why????......N E Wayz .....Throw Your Hands Up!!!!!
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ChadFromCanada wrote:
Get low.
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Croatianpimp wrote:
THESE MOTHAFUCKAS IS AIGHT I LIKE THAT THEY SPORT 64 IMPALAS
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eshen87 wrote:
http://www.last.fm/group/Gears+Of+War+2
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WESTSIDEKILLA wrote:
Legends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Your-Homeboy wrote:
LEGENDS!!!!!!
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adomay wrote:
Join the Danja group! http://www.last.fm/group/Danjahandz
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same_K wrote:
comin out hard motherfucker
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Rogal91 wrote:
8Ball And E.D.I. - Doin It Big [2008] [Retail] [GroupRip]
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Graphysiquez wrote:
LAID BACK IN THE LAC, GRIPPIN THE GRAIN AS IM CRUISIN THE STREEEEETS, ONE-TWELVE ON THE DOT, YOU'RE ON THE PHONE TALKIN DIRTY TO MEEEEEE Love them dudes!
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