In September 2007, 8Ball and MJG signed deals in Sacramento, CA with Real Talk Entertainment 8Ball released a group album with E.D.I of the Outlawz entitled Doin' It Big on Apand MJG released a solo album entitled Pimp Tight on April 29, 2008. On their label are the young, up and coming Memphis duo, Da Volunteers, who are widely known throughout the Southern United States for their 2006 single, "What's Yo Favorite Color?", which glorifies their neighborhood of Orange Mound. 8Ball heads 8 Ways Entertainment (distributed by Koch Entertainment), while MJG heads MJG Muzik. Today 8Ball and MJG also head their own record labels. The song was a collaboration between two of the most successful rap groups from the state of Tennessee, whence Three 6 Mafia also hail. That song peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100, which is the biggest hit of Three 6 Mafia's career and the biggest hit for 8Ball & MJG. Ĭommercially one of the high points of 8Ball & MJG's career was their being featured on Three 6 Mafia's hit song " Stay Fly" in 2005. Their second album on Bad Boy Records was titled Ridin' High and was released in March 2007. Their first album for Bad Boy Records, Living Legends, came out in 2004 and was certified Gold by the RIAA. They already had some experience with the label, being featured on the song "The Player Way" from Bad Boy rapper Mase's 1997 album Harlem World. In the early 2000s they would sign with Sean Combs' Bad Boy Records. The CD, meant to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic among African American men, was heralded as "a masterpiece" by The Source magazine. In 1996, they appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation CD, America is Dying Slowly, alongside Biz Markie, Wu-Tang Clan, and Fat Joe, among many other prominent hip hop artists. One year later in 2000, they released their fifth group album entitled Space Age 4 Eva. They reunited in 1999 to release their fourth album as a group, titled In Our Lifetime. After those albums both 8Ball & MJG released solo albums, first MJG's No More Glory in 1997 and then 8Ball's Lost in 1998. It also contained the song "Space Age Pimpin'", which was 8Ball & MJG's first single to chart, reaching #58 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles and Tracks chart and #22 on the Hot Rap Singles chart. On Top of the World was particularly successful, peaking at #8 on the Billboard Hot 200 and being certified Gold. Their subsequent albums in the 1990s, including 1994's On the Outside Looking In, and 1995's On Top of the World cemented their status as some of the South's best rappers. In 1993, they released the successful album Comin' Out Hard. In June 2008, 8Ball & MJG signed to Grand Hustle Records and released their eighth studio album, Ten Toes Down, in May 2010.8Ball & MJG first appeared on the rap scene with their underground 1991 album Listen to the Lyrics.
Although 8Ball had released several solo albums throughout the 2000s, MJG released his first solo work in eleven years: the studio albums Pimp Tight and This Might Be the Day, both released in 2008. Their next album on Bad Boy, 2007's Ridin High, did not achieve as much success as its predecessor and the group left the label that same year to sign to Real Talk Entertainment. Their first album for the label, Living Legends, was released in 2004 and was certified Gold. In the early 2000s, 8Ball & MJG signed to the Bad Boy Records spin-off Bad Boy South. The following year, they released their fifth album, Space Age 4 Eva. They reunited in 1999 to release their fourth album as a group, entitled In Our Lifetime. In the late 1990s, the two members embarked on solo careers, resulting in the albums No More Glory by MJG in 1997 and Lost by 8Ball in 1998.
It and their subsequent albums in the 1990s, including 1994's On the Outside Looking In and 1995's On Top of the World, cemented their status as some of the South's most popular rappers. The duo debuted in 1991 with the three-track EP Listen to the Lyrics, before releasing their debut studio album, Comin' Out Hard, two years later. It consists of rappers Premmro "8Ball" Smith and Marlon "MJG" Goodwin, who first met at middle school in 1984. Al Kapone, Lil' Flip, South Circle, T.I., Three 6 Mafia, UGK, Yo Gotti, Young BuckĨBall & MJG is an American hip hop duo from Memphis, Tennessee.