Orange Mound rapper and the more lyrically focused half of 8Ball & MJG, the duo that became the highest-profile Memphis act of the 1990s. He met 8Ball at Ridgeway Middle School in Orange Mound. MJG brought a melodic introspection to the duo's sound that balanced 8Ball's heavier street realism, and his verses on "Comin' Out Hard" (1993) and the subsequent Suave House catalog helped define what Southern rap could be before the genre had a commercial infrastructure.