As a young producer for Three 6 Mafia, the long-running Memphis rap group with a gift for grimy, bulldozing beats and brawling hooks, DJ Paul was offered the chance to perform in Russia. He declined.
“I was young at the time, and I turned down the show because I heard the weather was bad, it was cold all the time,” the producer explains. “I always had a thing about Russia because of Ivan Drago in Rocky IV — ‘the Russians don’t like us, man,’ that’s what I used to think.
“I was young at the time, and I turned down the show because I heard the weather was bad, it was cold all the time,” the producer explains. “I always had a thing about Russia because of Ivan Drago in Rocky IV — ‘the Russians don’t like us, man,’ that’s what I used to think.
- 4/29/2021
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
Last year, aspiring rapper Yng Martyr was barely holding on to a job as “a web designer that didn’t know how to design websites.” “I was in a nine to five that was God-awful,” he remembers. “I hated it.”
Faced with the prospect of wasting away at work, most people would decide to jump to a new company or go back to school. Yng Martyr is not most people: He saved up vacation time, went on leave, took out a $15,000 dollar loan from the bank, and promptly spent the...
Faced with the prospect of wasting away at work, most people would decide to jump to a new company or go back to school. Yng Martyr is not most people: He saved up vacation time, went on leave, took out a $15,000 dollar loan from the bank, and promptly spent the...
- 12/8/2020
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
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