Three 6 Mafia Sues $uicideboy$, Again, For Allegedly Stealing Their Music

Three 6 Mafia have resumed their legal battle against $uicideboy$, again accusing the duo of stealing their music without proper credit or compensation.

According to AllHipHop, the lawsuit, filed by Three 6 Mafia members Juicy J and DJ Paul, claim that the $uicideboy$ have “made a career stealing and profiting from Plaintiffs’ copyrighted material.” Juicy J and DJ Paul also accused the pair of “repeatedly and shamelessly appropriating Plaintiffs’ artistic and cultural identities.”

In the filing, Three 6 Mafia alleges that the $uicideboy$ have “illegally sampled and stolen” at least 36 Three 6 Mafia songs, not including songs that were cited in a previous lawsuit against the pair.

Juicy J and DJ Paul have argued that the songs in question were not used for “any new or transformative purposes,” and that the $uicideboy$ were blatantly capitalizing on the style and brand of music Three 6 Mafia helped bring to prominence.“

“While Plaintiffs have released songs entitled ‘Mask and Da Glock,’ ‘Smoked Out, Loced Out,’ and ‘Break Da Law,’ Defendants have also released songs entitled ‘Ma$k and da Glock,’ ‘Smoked Out, Loced Out,’ and ‘BREAKDALAW2K16,’ that copy and infringe upon Plaintiffs’ earlier original works,” the filing reads. 

Back in 2020, Three 6 Mafia filed their first lawsuit against $uicideboy$, claiming that the duo sampled 35 of their songs without permission, including “Sippin’ on Some Syrup,” “Where’s Da Bud,” “Charging These Hoes,” “Robbers,” “Now I’m High, Really High,” “Chickenhead,” and “Crucifix.”

However, the $uicideboy$ refuted those allegations, arguing that they were given verbal permission by Three 6 Mafia member Juicy J sample the group’s work while helping create his shutdaf##kup mixtape.

“[Juicy J] verbally approved the clearances of any claimed Three 6 Mafia samples allegedly used by the $uicideboy$ in exchange for the production services, unpublished beats and creative contributions of the $uicideboy$ services to the 2 [Juicy J] mixtapes,” the $uicideboy$ claimed at the time.

That lawsuit would be settled out of court, with $uicideboy$ expressing their desire to have a mutually beneficial” relationship with Three 6 Mafia moving forward. However, Juicy J and DJ Paul claim those words now appear to have been empty, as $uicideboy$ have continued to pillage their catalog in the time since.

“Old habits die hard,” the lawsuit states. “Plaintiffs had no choice but to bring an action to redress and stop Defendants’ willful infringement.”