On their label are the young, up and coming Memphis duo, Da Volunteers, who are widely known throughout the Southern United States for their 2006 single, "What's Yo Favorite Color?", which glorifies their neighborhood of Orange Mound.In September 2007, 8Ball and MJG signed deals in Sacramento, CA with Real Talk Ent. 8Ball heads 8 Ways Entertainment (distributed by Koch Entertainment), while MJG heads MJG Muzik. The song was a collaboration between two of the most successful rap groups from the state of Tennessee, where Three 6 Mafia also hail from.Today 8Ball and MJG also head their own record labels. That song peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100, which is the biggest hit of Three 6 Mafia's career and the biggest hit for 8Ball & MJG. Their second album on Bad Boy Records was titled Ridin High and was released in March 2007.Commercially 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. Their first album for Bad Boy Records, Living Legends, was certified Gold by the RIAA. 1 For their later releases they signed with Bad Boy Records. They reunited in 1999 to release their fourth album as a group, titled In Our Lifetime, Vol. After those albums both 8Ball & MJG released solo albums, first MJG's No More Glory in 1997 and then 8Ball's Lost in 1998. Their subsequent albums in the 1990s including 1994's On the Outside Looking In, and 1995's On Top of the World cemented their status as some of the South's best rappers and would later allow them to declare on their 2004 album that they were Living Legends (as the album was titled). The album was successful commercially as well as critically and established the group as a prominent act in the then emerging Southern Rap scene. The two rappers met at Ridgeway Middle School in 1984.They first appeared on the rap scene with their 1993 album Comin' Out Hard. 36 on the Billboard 200 and featured T.I., Slim Thug, Bun B, and others.8Ball & MJG is an American hip hop duo from Memphis, Tennessee, consisting of rappers 8Ball and MJG. In 2008, 8Ball & MJG signed with T.I.'s label Grand Hustle, releasing Ten Toes Down in 2010. 13 on the Hot 100, becoming one of the biggest hits any of the rappers had seen. The group would go on to be featured on Three 6 Mafia's "Stay Fly" in 2005, which peaked at No. Riding the fire of that album, they both released solo albums in the coming years. 58 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles and Tracks list and charted at No. On Top of The World also contained 8Ball & MJG's first charting single, "Space Age Pimpin," which reached No. Their cut-and-paste style is instantly recognizable to anyone who listened to any Southern rap in the ‘90s or ‘00s. Its cover was designed by Pen & Pixel Graphics, who would go on to work with No Limit Records and Cash Money Records.
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The album featured E-40 and Mac Mall, as well as former Geto Boy Big Mike. Riding the wave of that hit, the group released On Top of the World in 1995, which positively blew them up: it reached No. Two years later they dropped their first official LP for Suave House, Comin' Out Hard, an early blockbuster in the Southern rap genre. Their first coup was the underground hit Listen to the Lyrics, released in 1993. After meeting at Ridgeway Middle School in 1984, they toiled in the underground rap scene for years, eventually striking big with a decade-long run of hard-hitting albums. Southern rap from the 1990s may as well be its own planet of music, and two of that planet's leaders are surely 8Ball & MJG, the American hip-hop duo from Memphis, Tennessee.
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