The song was a collaboration between two of the most successful rap groups from the state of Tennessee, where Three 6 Mafia also hail from. 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. Their second album on Bad Boy Records was titled Ridin High and was released in March 2007.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 first album for Bad Boy Records, Living Legends, was certified Gold by the RIAA. 1įor their later releases they signed with Bad Boy Records. They reunited in 1999 to release their fourth album as a group, titled In Our Lifetime, Vol. After those albums both 8Ball & MJG released solo albums, first MJG's No More Glory in 1997 and then 8Ball's Lost in 1998. On Top of the World was particularly succeessful, 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.
The album was successful commercially as well as critically and established the group as a prominent act in the then emerging Southern Rap scene. They first appeared on the rap scene with their 1993 album Comin' Out Hard.
The two rappers met at Ridgeway Middle School in 1984. 8Ball & MJG is an American hip hop duo from Memphis, Tennessee consisting of Premrose Smith (8Ball) and Marlon Jermaine Goodwin (MJG).