Juicy J claims three 6 Mafia songs are sampled 5-6 times a day, says he makes profit from ‘about 90% of the songs that are out now’

Juicy J says he has a consistent income stream from sampling music.

The artist was part of the hip hop group Three 6 Mafia, founded in the early 90s.

BlackPast reports that original group members were Paul Duane “DJ Paul” Beauregard, Jordan Michael “Juicy J” Houston III, Lola Chantrelle “Gangsta Boo” Mitchell, Darnell “Crunchy Black” Carlton, Ricky “Lord Infamous” Dunigan, and Robert Cooper “Koopsta Knicca” Phillips.

The group began their career in Memphis, Tennessee, before finding success across the country in the late ’90s, eventually selling millions of albums, according to Genius.

Their records include “Stay Fly”, “Doe Boy Fresh”, “Lolli Lolli (Pop That Body)”, “Who Run It” and “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp”, which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2006 for his role in the film “Hustle & Flow”.

Before Juicy J made her mark on the hip-hop world, it never occurred to her to consider the business side of things in addition to the art form.

“I knew how I rapping and writing songs and something like that so I told my mom, she was a librarian, I was like, ‘Yo, I got to know the company. I I just want to know more about the whole situation,” he said on the “5 Questions” podcast hosted by Dan Schawbel. “I love music so much. I want to know everything, not just how playing the piano, not just how to play guitar or another instrument, I wanted know the whole thing. The thing. The publish. The management. The production. So I read all those books. It just made me smarter.”

It was helpful to take the time to learn more about the company when the group got its first contract.

“I came from the ‘90’s. We closed our deal in the ‘“90s, so it was different,” Juicy J said in the podcast.I said we have many of the masters, some things we don’t do, but you live and you learn. We came however, at the top we are 100% owner of the publish.”

During a conversation on the SpringHill podcast “Two Ways About It” alongside Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J describes the influx of music sampling as a blessing. Furthermore, he reveals that he is compensated on almost all of the group’s songs and that he doesn’t hesitate to approve sample requests.

“I feel like the new trend is the old trend, like Three 6 Mafia, because everyone is sampling “Three 6 Mafia,” Juicy said during the interview. “We started the trend. On some real sh-t, 5 to 6 samples a day. I get paid for pretty much every song. Like 90% of the songs that are out now.”

He continued: “It’s a blessing, you know. I love it when people take samples. I just approved it, approved it. Every time I get that email, I approved it. So I feel like I don’t really have to conform to the trends that all the music in the flows of the old Three 6 Mafiawhat I love. So I’ll just keep doing what I’ve always done.”

In addition to his work as a publisher, Juicy J also makes money in other ways, such as through his investments in blue-chip stocks, CORE Water, Heliogen Solar Power, cannabis, technology apps, video games, and real estate, as previously mentioned by AFROTECH™.

Thanks to these business ventures, Juicy J has amassed a net worth of $20 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.