As a founding member of the original Triple Six Mafia, Lord Infamous helped shape the group’s reputation for demonic lyrics through his vivid stories of satanic ritual, murder and robbery, merging street tales with passages the devils handbook. But, after achieving commercial success the group changed its name to the more presentable Three 6 Mafia, abandoned its otherworldly lyrics and re-arranged its line-up. Several times in fact. Yet the only member that seemed not to get the memo about wiping the blood off his verses was Lord Infamous, case in point: Blood Money.

Blood Money finds the Lord returning to his old tricks, blending tales of drug dealing, riches and murder with eerie undertones. His quick paced rhyme style has hardly changed as well: sharing verses with high profile guest Chamillionaire as well as some new comers to the Memphis hip-hop scene. Tracks like ‘N***as Like You’ and ‘I Need Drugs’, a cover of LL Cool J’s ‘I need Love’ show that the Scarecrow still has it in him to be just as sadistic as he was on Mystic Stylez, however it’s tracks like ‘What You Bitches Wanna Do’ and ‘No Problems’ that show evidence of the former Triple Six member attempting to conform to the current southern hip-hop scene.

Overall, this album does its job reintroducing the world to a Memphis legend it might have forgotten since the release of Da Unbreakables, his last album with Three 6. However, Blood Money’s downfall is the Lord’s schizophrenic flip flop between staying loyal to the Memphis underground that birthed him and the cookie cutter rap that could fill his pockets.

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