It’s easy for a pimp

Three 6 Mafia / In 2006, Three 6 Mafia won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The single was “It’s Hard Out Here For a Pimp” from Hustle & Flow. Academy Awards host Jon Stewart said it best: “I think it just got a little easier out here for a pimp.”
And yes it has.
Since then, the exuberant performers have gotten their own MTV reality show, had one of their songs used as an entrance theme for WWE wrestler Mark Henry and were featured on a Justin Timberlake single.
The Memphis natives’ latest album, Laws of Power, has been long-delayed but a few singles have received a proper release in the past year. Perhaps they’ll use their show at Pipeline Café this weekend as an opportunity to preview some new material.
Plus, it ain’t often you get to see a an Oscar-winning bunch of rappers in person, right?
As the song says, “You ain’t knowin’.”





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