Lola Mitchell — higher referred to as the pioneering Southern feminine rapper Gangsta Boo who was a member of Three 6 Mafia — has died at age 43, Fox 13 in Memphis studies, together with her rep confirming the rapper’s demise to WREG 3 Memphis. Based on Fox 13, she was discovered lifeless on Sunday afternoon. The reason for demise has not been publicly launched.
DJ Paul, who based Three 6 Mafia alongside Juicy J, shared a photograph of Mitchell on social media on Sunday, in an obvious tribute. “Man we was jus collectively three weeks in the past,” Lil Jon wrote in response to DJ Paul’s Instagram publish. “Relaxation effectively quenn.”
The Memphis-born artist started rapping as an adolescent, and was the second feminine rapper to affix the group. She appeared on their debut studio album, Mystic Stylez, on via 2001’s Decisions: The Album. By the late Nineties, she was additionally carving out a solo profession, starting with 1998’s Enquiring Minds, which reached Quantity 46 on the Billboard 200 and spawned her hit “The place Dem Dollas At?”
Her sophomore effort, Each Worlds *69, climbed as much as Quantity 29. Gangsta Boo’s third album, Enquiring Minds II: The Cleaning soap Opera, arrived in 2003.
She additionally dropped a variety of mixtapes, together with collaborative ones with DJ Fletch, Lure-A-Holics, La Chat, and one with Three 6 Mafia spinoff, Da Mafia 6ix, 6ix Commandments.
Over practically three many years, she made numerous visitor appearances on different artists’ singles, a testomony to her affect. In December, she teamed up with Latto and GloRilla for the one “Fuck the Membership Up,” a play on Three 6 Mafia’s “Tear Da Membership Up.” She additionally appeared on Run the Jewels’ “Strolling within the Snow” from 2020’s RTJ4. “Love you Lola thanks on your friendship,” El-P posted, together with a damaged coronary heart emoji, on Twitter.
In an interview printed in Billboard final month, Gangsta Boo spoke of her legacy. “I might actually say that I’ve to confess, respectfully and humbly, that I’m the blueprint. I hear my cadence in a number of males and feminine rappers… my sound is a Memphis sound. It’s a Gangsta Boo sound, it’s a Three 6 Mafia sound. So, I’m the blueprint and I put on that badge proudly as fuck.
“I used to run away from it. I used to didn’t wish to even give myself flowers as a result of I’ve been so low-key and humble, however I’m on some fuck that shit. It’s time to assert what’s mine. I’m one of many important bitches,” She stated. “And it feels enjoyable to nonetheless be capable to look good and be related in a spot the place I don’t have this million-dollar machine behind me and I’ve all my pure physique elements, no shade to those that don’t. But it surely simply feels nice to face in your self and look within the mirror and be like, ‘Wow, you probably did that.’ And never promote your soul and go to mattress at evening with a smile in your face. As a result of I don’t have any strain.”
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