Boyd: Memphis hip-hop is Halloween’s soundtrack
DJ Paul & Juicy J spent much of the 1990s and 2000s releasing independent music under the Triple Six Mafia moniker, adjacent to their major label music as Three 6. (Daily Memphian file)
Producer and rapper Blackout’s underground album “Dreamworld” is regarded by collectors as one of the essential spooky listens in the Memphis rap domain. (Courtesy S.I.C. Records)
While the rest of the world bobs for apples, fans of hardcore Memphis rap bob their heads to a collection of artists in the 1990s who built a repertoire around slasher film samples, cartoonish descriptions of grotesque violence and occult imagery.
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