8 Ball & MJG Feat. Thorough, Gillie Da Kid, Toni Hickman & Big Duke

8 Ball and MJG are a U.S. Southern hip hop duo from Memphis, Tennessee. 8 Ball & MJG may have never made a significant impact nationally during their rise to fame in the 1990s, yet they indeed made an incredible impact throughout the South, where the Memphis-bred duo pioneered what countless Dirty South rappers would emulate years later. The two began on the Southern underground circuit, where they peddled their tapes in such major markets as Memphis, Houston, and Atlanta. After a few years of this, 8 Ball & MJG helped launch Suave House Records in 1993 and attract a pair of national distribution deals soon afterward. By the end of the '90s, just as the Dirty South movement broke nationally, the duo issued their final Suave House album, the classic In Our Lifetime, Vol. 1 (1999), and declared themselves Southern rap pioneers. Few argued, as the two, and particularly 8 Ball, made countless cameo appearances for an array of fellow Southern rappers, earning the duo respect for their work ethic and diplomacy as well as their mature perspective and street-smart wits. In later years, Eightball MJG finally began flirting with crossover success, ultimately signing to P Diddy's Bad Boy label in 2002.