Released 20 years ago
Smoked Out Music: Greatest Hits
Three 6 Mafia · 2006
56 min · 28 tracks · trap music
Murky Memphis rap turns sinister keyboard loops and booming low end into a soundtrack for smoke-filled rooms and street-level threats.
Top tracks — play these first
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Break da Law — Its repeated command and confrontational delivery distill the defiant, menacing side of Three 6 Mafia’s early repertoire.
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Where Is da Bud Part 2 — A sequel built around the search for marijuana foregrounds the stoned humor that sits alongside the compilation’s darker material.
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Ridin n the Chevy — The extended cruising scenario gives the collection a distinctly Southern setting and room for its atmosphere to settle in.
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Liquor & Bud — Its intoxication-centered premise shows how partying and drug culture function as recurring settings in the group’s music, not just passing references.
Is this for you?
Good fit if you like
- party anthems for group settings
- short tracks for quick engagement
- playful irreverence in lyrics
- energetic beats for celebration
- cathartic release with friends
Maybe skip if you
- prefer lengthy, immersive albums
- want introspective listening experiences
Where this album fits
- In the catalog
- Deep Cut — A retrospective of the group's earlier Memphis sound, distinct from its studio-album milestones.
- Career context
- Released in 2006, Smoked Out Music: Greatest Hits revisits Three 6 Mafia’s earlier Memphis catalog after the group’s 2005 album Most Known Unknown brought them wider commercial attention. It appeared in the same year that members Juicy J, DJ Paul and Frayser Boy won an Academy Award for “It’s Hard out Here for a Pimp.”
- Stylistic neighbors
- Project Pat· Juicy J· 8Ball & MJG
Moments worth listening for
Where the writing does something specific.
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Break da Law
The refrain repeatedly issues an instruction to break the law rather than recounting a single offense.
That imperative gives the hook the force of a collective chant rather than a conventional narrative resolution.
Tracklist
Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.
Disc 1
- 1 When It's On, It's Murder (Da Song) 3:04
- 2 Break da Law 5:15
- 3 Where Is da Bud Part 2 5:35
- 4 Love to Make a Stang 3:38
- 5 Grab tha Gauge 5:25
- 6 Jealous Ass Bitch 4:18
- 7 Liquor & Bud 4:45
- 8 Nine to Yo Dome 3:31
- 9 Ridin n the Chevy 6:02
- 10 Playa Hataz 3:39
- 11 Half on a Sack or Blow 3:39
- 12 Now I'm High, Really High 4:21
- 13 Gimme Head 3:46
Disc 2
- 1 Where Is da Bud Part 2
- 2 Ridin n the Chevy
- 3 Jealous Ass Bitch
- 4 Love to Make a Stang
- 5 Liquor & Bud
- 6 Half on a Sack or Blow
- 7 Nine to Yo Dome
- 8 Grab the Gauge
- 9 Playa Hataz
- 10 When It's On, It's Murder [Da Song]
- 11 DJ Paul -Skit-
- 12 Break da Law
- 13 Gimme Head
- 14 DJ Black -Outro-
- 15 Now I'm High, Really High
What to play next
Mystic Stylez
1995
Hear the foundational album-length version of the murky Memphis sound and sinister loops sampled across the hits.
Most Known Unknown
2005
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