Juicy J tells Jalen Rose he just wants to fill everybody’s cup

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legendary rapper Juicy J shares his “Chronicles.”A founding member of Three 6 Mafia — who has gone on to have an outstanding career in music, become an entrepreneur and author, and take home an Academy Award with his rap group — Juicy reminisced about his rise to fame from humble beginnings out of Memphis, Tennessee, in the early 1990s.Even when that iconic rap trio started making it big, none of it felt real for J, he told me.“Back in the day, we used to do radio promo shows with Destiny’s Child.

I remember Kelly Rowland was telling me, she was like, ‘I love your music! I love your music!’” Juicy said. “I was just shocked.

I didn’t think everybody listened to Three 6 Mafia.”The sensation only grew, and Juicy soon noticed that entire audiences in foreign nations would start singing along at shows — all in English.“They knew all the words,” Juicy recalled of an early show in Japan that’s been stuck in his mind ever since.Next, he and the Mafia struck Oscar gold, winning Best Original Song for “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp,” featured in the 2005 film “Hustle & Flow.”“We were the first people they reached out to to do music in the movie,” Juicy told me. “And man, I knew something was going to be special about the movie.

And we did our thing on it.”But winning took second place to what came right after the Academy Awards.“We had one of the longest Oscar parties of all time … at the Playboy Mansion,” he said, offering some of his preferred gentlemen’s clubs across the US.Though he also spoke about the emotional resonance of his vulnerable memoir, “Chronicles of the Juice Man,” which hit shelves earlier this month. “You know, [I’m] letting everything out, man,” he said. “If I could help somebody … Because there’s a lot of.