Kingpin Skinny Pimp (born Derrick Dewayne Hill) is a rapper from Memphis Tennessee
--Early days
Hill grew up in North Memphis' Dixie Homes project where he lived with his grandfather, he began rapping in 1985 while attending Herman Junior High School After graduation, he began making mixtapes with a local DJ known as DJ squeeky few years later, their relationship ended and Skinny began to hang out with DJ Paul and [artist Juicy J of Three 6 Mafia Skinny often dissed squeeky on their boards, many people began to buy Skinny's and squeeky s album after two got into an altercation at the local mall.
--Three 6 Mafia
From the success of these mixtapes Three 6 Mafia recorded their first official album Mystic Stylez containing Skinny Pimp on TV?? Track From success Mystic Stylez Paul and Juicy produced Skinny album King Of Da Playaz Ball, which sold over 60,000 units without radio play But in a desperate monetary situation Skinny signed all the rights of his albums with Paul and Juicy for only $ 10,000.
--After Three 6 Mafia
Skinny Pimp left Three 6 Mafia in 1996 and spent the next five years going around from label to label recording album after his 2001 album Da Product vol1 reached well over 60 000 units in sales independently Skinny received only $ 20,000 for it to be Tired of low royalty Skinny came into the business and eventually began spending time with Nakia Shine and Andre 'Dre Day' Stephens of the Rap Hustlaz label to release his 2002 album Pimpin & Hustlin Han is now other than the New Prophet Camp as well contract with Lil 'Flip's Clover G'z label.
--Movie
In 2005 after seeing the film Hustle & Flow Skinny Pimp saw the film as a story of his life, he went to Craig Brewer and told me about his idea of making a movie about the Memphis rap featuring native rappers and their stories of how they got her started in the industry.
One of the original rappers to emerge from Memphis - alongside Eightball & MJG, Three 6 Mafia, and Tela during the mid-'90s -- Kingpin Skinny Pimp never quite matched the success of his more well-known peers, yet he still forged himself a long-lasting and influential recording career that carried on into the next decade. Born Derrick Dewayne Hill and raised in the rough Dixie Homes area of North Memphis by his grandfather, Skinny Pimp began rapping in 1985 while attending Herman Junior High School. Several years later, he began making waves throughout the Memphis region -- first alongside DJ Squeeky and his crew, then alongside the rival Three 6 Mafia camp after defecting. Throughout the early '90s, the Memphis underground peddled mix tapes, but that changed in 1995 when Three 6 Mafia formed its own record label, Prophet Entertainment, and issued its debut album, Mystic Stylez, on which Skinny Pimp performed. A year later he made his own album debut, King of da Playaz Ball (1996), which DJ Paul and Juicy J of Three 6 Mafia produced and released on Prophet. That same year, Basix Records released Skinny But Dangerous (1996), a collection of his older underground recordings also produced by DJ Paul and Juicy J. Skinny Pimp's partnership with Three 6 Mafia didn't last long, and he was soon out on his own while his former affiliates went on to substantial underground success. Regardless, Skinny Pimp stayed on the grind and kept recording one album after another throughout the remainder of the decade and into the next.