


In magazines ranging from Murder Dog to DonDiva, he began formulating the groundwork for his comeback, and, as soon as he could, he reentered the recording studio, where he could lay down lines like “Good googly moogly/That thang is juicy,” and “Nigga I’m hustlin’, where the bullets never ceaseful/It’s always gunplay, ‘cause your mouth stays in grease-full.” Project Pat was released in late ’05, just in time to see his little brother win an Academy Award for “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” and to appear in Three 6’s video for “Poppin’ My Collar.” He spent several months in a halfway house and worked at a temp agency before being deemed sufficiently rehabilitated by his parole officer. The question is, now that Project Pat has resumed talking the talk, will he continue to walk the walk? Judging by the way they’ve parlayed their popularity into celebrity appearances on TV shows like The Simple Life, Entourage, and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Juicy J and his Three-6 compatriot DJ Paul have learned how to differentiate their roles as Hollywood entertainers from their hardcore street personas, unlike other rappers like the foolhardy C-Murder, who was sentenced to life in prison after shooting someone in a Louisiana nightclub three years ago.
