I love some of this album, but I could walk into any mental institution or grade 7 homeroom with a tape recorder and get shit just as relevant. I was referring to ODB's album, which you should listen to now. Hopefully you won't be discouraged by negative comments (especially those of the single sentence, gut reaction, fucking idiotic kind) from doing more. I really appreciate the review though as this might have resulted in some good ol' new shit for me. I like Sean Price, but has he ever said something a 13 year old couldn't say?) Lyrically, it's much more ignorant than I can deal with (although Return to the 36 Chambers is one of the most ignorant and pointless albums ever recorded and I'll probably always like it in some way. Musically it's a bit simpler than I like now (though that is a worthless point as all Premier has ever done is make simple loops and I would cut my still beating heart out of my chest and donate it to that guy if he needed it).
I downloaded this one and hated it, though I liked that they gave the theme music from Unsolved Mysteries some work on the first track after years of unemployment.
I remember laughing a bit at their old ads in The Source (kind of like a beat down version of those glorious pen'n'pixel No limit ads), but never, ever in my long legged life did these guys show up on my radar. Their album Chapter 1: The End, their second full-length project, featured Crunchy Black, Gangsta Boo, and Koopsta Knicca alongside the old standby Lord Infamous and the duo who retain the name, DJ Paul and Juicy J. Their recent shift in sound also may be due to the fact that the Three 6 Mafia has been reduced to only two members, whereas back in the 1990s they had more affiliates than the fucking Wu-Tang Clan. I imagine it could get very tiring for a rapper to reuse the same formula over and over again (unless you're DMX or something). I suppose it's possible that the group wasn't actually pressured by their label to change maybe it was a natural progression (or regression).
So,I don’t quite blame the Prophet Posse (seriously, now that’s an alias) for adjusting their style to adapt to the tastes of the everyday mainstream fickle hip hop fan. Time changes all, especially in hip hop, where, thanks to the Internet, a song can become dated within the span of a week. Today I'm talking about the Three 6 Mafia of old, not the group that released “Lolli Lolli” or that other crunk nonsense that is now associated with the act. Three 6 Mafia? Please, don’t leave just yet.
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