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What are you doing in Seattle?
DJ Paul: Lookin’ for women!
Juicy J: I’m trying to get a job with Bill Gates. He’s supposed to give me like 50 percent of the company, and I said I accept, so I came up here, and he never called me back. So I guess I’m stuck.
Just roaming the country?
J: No we just up here, gonna do a super bowl party, hang out with a few fans, some girls, a couple of bars, strip clubs, you know.
How did you get hooked up with the Super Bowl Party? Why here?
J: This is just the best place to be right now. Well actually our record label, Columbia, put this together with the radio station. We’re happy to be up here, our song’s doing great, “Feel It” featuring Tiësto, Flo Ryda, Sean Kingston. So we just up here promotin’, hopin’, wishin’ and fishin’.
“Feel It” is on your album that’s about to come out right?
J: Yup, “Laws of Power.” Supposed to be late May, whenever we get ready to release it.
Can you tell us about that?
J: The album’s jammin’. It’s 95 perecnt gangsta. We got a couple of pop records on there, and the rest is original Three 6 Mafia music. Shoot ‘em up bang bang music, you know. The stuff we’ve been doing for all our lives, all these years.
What I’ve heard is back to more of your old style. What brought you back?
J: The fans wanted it, man. They wanted the old stuff man. They kept on saying “You gotta bring back the old stuff.” So you know, we gotta give them what they want.
You’ve been doing this for almost 20 years. Have you seen a lot of change in the industry over that time?
J: Oh yes. The Internet took over. Back in our day the Internet wasn’t as popular as it is now, so you know, we have to adapt with the times. It’s all good, we got no problem with it. We got a record on the charts right now, so hey, we blessed. Knock on some wood. Is this wood?
It’s been two years since your last album came out, and you’ve got a lot of big names on the new one, it’s gonna be good. Any thoughts on the producers that you’ve asked to sign on the new one?
J: We got Dr. Luke, who else we got.
D: Kevin Rudolph, Frankie, Tiësto, I think that’s pretty much it outside of us.
J: I mean, they just gave it that sound. They gave it that extra boost it needed. Which is great, it’s like a solid album now. We got an album that pleases our pop fan base, our urban fan base, Mars, international, Jupiter, Pluto fanbase. Anybody can listen to this album and enjoy it. It don’t matter what kind of music you like, you could like straight country music and listen to this album.
There were rumors that Lord Infamous was going to come back for this album. What happened with that?
D: No, we gonna work with him again for some production, but not in the group. We’re not gonna put anyone else in the group until, you know, some TV show comes to us and gives us a million dollars and a show to ask someone back in the group, like TLC did.
J: Whatever happened to that show?
I’m not sure. I haven’t heard about TLC in like five years.
J: If they looking for somebody to date, I’m available!
D: I’ll join the band, I’ll join the band. Me and two chicks? It’ll be like Three’s Company. You can name the album that. Three’s Company.
Where did you guys go last night?
D: I don’t even know, man. I was so drunk. It looked like a mall, but then there was a bar or a Mexican restaurant or something. I don’t know where the hell it was at. I don’t even know how I got home. I just know it was in the city.
J: That’s the best way to wake up. It’s like, what did I do last night? I don’t even know.
You’re the first black group to ever win the Oscar for best original song. How does that feel?
J: First colored group. *Laughs* Na, it’s cool man, it’s a blessing, you know, a surprise, and we still got the longest Oscar party going on right now. So you wanna join us, feel free to buy us a drink, we’ll take it.
How did it feel to be rapping at the Oscars?
J: It’s unbelievable. You know, to be on that stage, heart beatin’ fast. Not knowin what’s gonna happen, you know, just goin’ with the flow.
What inspired you to work with Tiësto?
J: You know, Three 6 Mafia is always the kind of group that would do things certain other groups, rappers, producers, singers would not do. They probably thought about doing it, but we always just did it. So that’s why we did the song with Tiësto, he asked us to get on the track for his album, and he said, “You can use it for your album.” The song was jammin,’ so we had to put it on. I mean, if somethin’ is good, and we know it’s gonna be one of those songs, it’s gonna be on the album regardless of what it sounds like or who did it. You know, we just break bread, that’s all we do, we been doing it all our lives, just collaborating with different people and doing different things, you know, making something that people be like “oh sh**.” So we turn the smallest thing into something just as big.
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