Mystic Stylez is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Three 6 Mafia, released on May 30, 1995, by Prophet Entertainment.
The group formed through the release of numerous EPs from their own record company with Nick Scarfo, Prophet, which were sold around Memphis and throughout the south.
During the recording of Mystic Stylez, Three 6 Mafia were listening to music by artists and groups such as N.W.A., Geto Boys, Willie Hutch, KRS-One and Isaac Hayes.
"[5] According to author Roni Sarig, "Mystic Stylez clearly sounds like the expression of rappers who haven't so much made a deal with the Devil as spent some time partying with him".
Three 6 Mafia accused Bone Thugs-n-Harmony of copying their style and released the diss song "Live by Yo Rep (B.O.N.E.
"[5] DJ Paul spoke about the feud saying “It wasn’t a real beef [...] It was more of a misunderstanding because we was rapping about triple six, devil shit, and tongue twisting over slow beats.
When they came out with “Thuggish Ruggish Bone” and all of that stuff and we hear somebody kind of on our same style: Faces Of Death, redrum, murder, 6-6-6, tongue twisting.
[13] The group's debut into exposure had a rocky beginning mostly because local Memphis radio, at first, refused to play Three 6 Mafia's music.
However, when staff heard "Da Summa", they eventually decided to play it, making it the group's first radio-aired song.