You remember the DJs would go back and forth on Technic 1200s behind their back? I used to do all that stuff, tricks on the turntables, shit like that. I remember playing a lot of Rob Base, Luke Skyywalker, MC Shy D, a lot of breakbeats, too. In my early early days, I was DJ-ing in high school, playing stuff like “Planet Rock.” I started hearing about N.W.A. later on, it could have been ’89. What sort of stuff were you spinning in your sets in the beginning? His career trajectory amounts to one long, strange trip, with milestones along the way including a Best Original Song Oscar for Hustle & Flow’s “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” and a Billboard Hot 100 smash with Katy Perry on “ Dark Horse.” With his latest solo album The Hustle Continues released on Black Friday, and production credits all over his friend and protégé Megan Thee Stallion’s debut album Good News, rap’s foremost hustler spoke with Vulture about his extraordinary three -decade journey. “I’ve always felt if you can make it in Memphis, Tennessee, as an artist, you can make it anywhere in the world,” he says, then adds a caveat: “But you gotta make it in Memphis first.” With DJ Paul and Lord Infamous, he formed Three 6 Mafia and brought that mindset to fruition. Born less than two years later and more than 1,000 miles away, Juicy J grew up with that music, first as a DJ, then as a producer and rapper. Back in August, hip-hop celebrated its 47th birthday, an auspicious date marked by DJ Kool Herc’s legendary Back to School Jam in the Bronx.
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