gangsta grillz: the oscars

Three 6 Mafia - Sippin' On Some Syrup [from When The Smoke Clears]

We all must definitely take a moment to celebrate the fact that Three 6 Mafia won the Oscar for Best Original Song last night. I checked, and the only other hip hop act to win was Eminem with that "Lose Yourself" song that the USC football team loves so much. The remainder are mostly Elton John or Randy Newman songs from Disney movies, or "Love Lifts Us Up Where We Belong." So yeah, it's totally awesome, but lest we forget who we're talking about, let's look back to 2000 and the song that put Triple 6 on the map (outside of the Dirty-Dirty, at least). I think this may also have been the first time that non-Southerners had heard of syzzurp or the DJ Screw style of production, and possibly the progenitor of the popular resurgence of Southern Rap that we're seeing right now, in the persons of Slim Thug, Mike Jones, Paul Wall, Jeezy, and the original Tear Da Club Up Thugz themselves. This also includes one of my favorite hip hop boasts of all time: "I eat so much shrimp, I got iodine poisoning."