Gangsta Boo, Former Three 6 Mafia Member, Dead at 43



By Althea Legaspi

Lola Mitchell — higher called the pioneering Southern woman rapper Gangsta Boo who was a subordinate of Three 6 Mafia — has died astatine property forty three, Fox thirteen successful Memphis reviews, with her rep confirming the rapper’s decease to WREG 3 Memphis. According to Fox thirteen, she became recovered dormant connected Sunday afternoon. The crushed of decease has nary longer been publically released.

DJ Paul, who founded Three 6 Mafia alongside Juicy J, shared a representation of Mitchell connected societal media connected Sunday, successful an evident tribute. “Man we go jus unneurotic 3 weeks ago,” Lil Jon wrote successful absorption to DJ Paul’s Instagram publish. “Rest good quenn.”

The Memphis-born creator commenced rapping arsenic a teenager, and was the 2nd 1 pistillate rapper to articulation the group. She regarded connected their debut workplace album, Mystic Stylez, connected done 2001’s Choices: The Album. By the precocious 1990s, she changed into additionally carving retired a solo profession, starting with 1998’s Enquiring Minds, which reached Number forty six connected the Billboard 2 hundred and spawned her deed “Where Dem Dollas At?”

Her sophomore attempt, Both Worlds *sixty nine, climbed arsenic overmuch arsenic Number 29. Gangsta Boo’s 3rd album, Enquiring Minds II: The Soap Opera, arrived successful 2003.

She besides dropped a fig of mixtapes, unneurotic with collaborative ones with DJ Fletch, Trap-A-Holics, La Chat, and 1 with Three 6 Mafia spinoff, Da Mafia 6ix, 6ix Commandments.

Over astir 3 decades, she made infinite impermanent appearances connected antithetic artists’ singles, a testament to her affect. In December, she teamed up with Latto and GloRilla for the azygous “Fuck the Club Up,” a play connected Three 6 Mafia’s “Tear Da Club Up.” She additionally appeared connected Run the Jewels’ “Walking successful the Snow” from 2020’s RTJ4. “Love you Lola acknowledgment to your friendship,” El-P published, unneurotic with a breached bosom emoji, connected Twitter.