![]() Below are a few names that are indispensable to any discussion of Memphis rap – more lodestars to help you chart the constellations. ![]() In the twinkling Memphis rap cosmos, though, they are just the brightest of seemingly endless celestial bodies. Of those rappers who came of age in the early and mid-’90s, a few became stars: Three 6 Mafia, 8Ball & MJG and, to a lesser degree, Project Pat. ![]() It happened in tumbledown shotgun shacks, in dizzying roller rinks and in parking lots jammed with peacocking young men and their thudding subwoofers. It was lo-fi music from an embattled city made for – and by – people on the margins. Helpfully, if you wanted to book an artist, their phone numbers were usually printed on the tape. These crackling, sibilant tapes were often unmixed, unmastered and free of art of tracklists, though they contained plenty of too-wild-to-be-true confessions. If you wanted to know approximately which crimes your nearest dope boy was committing, you could buy a cassette for that, too. In Memphis in the early 1990s, if you needed to know exactly which songs your pals gangsta-walked to on a balmy Saturday night, you could buy a cassette of the mix.
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