Their second album on Bad Boy Records was titled Ridin' High and was released in March 2007. Their first album for Bad Boy Records, Living Legends, came out in 2004 and was certified Gold by the RIAA. They already had some experience with the label, being featured on the song 'The Player Way' from Bad Boy rapper Mase's 1997 album Harlem World. In the early 2000s they would sign with Sean Combs' Bad Boy Records. The CD, meant to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic among African American men, was heralded as 'a masterpiece' by The Source magazine.

In 1996, they appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation CD, America is Dying Slowly, alongside Biz Markie, Wu-Tang Clan, and Fat Joe, among many other prominent hip hop artists. One year later in 2000, they released their fifth group album entitled Space Age 4 Eva. They reunited in 1999 to release their fourth album as a group, titled In Our Lifetime. After those albums both 8Ball & MJG released solo albums, first MJG's No More Glory in 1997 and then 8Ball's Lost in 1998. It also contained the song 'Space Age Pimpin'', which was 8Ball & MJG's first single to chart, reaching #58 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles and Tracks chart and #22 on the Hot Rap Singles chart. On Top of the World was particularly successful, peaking at #8 on the Billboard Hot 200 and being certified Gold. Their subsequent albums in the 1990s, including 1994's On the Outside Looking In, and 1995's On Top of the World cemented their status as some of the South's best rappers. In 1993, they released the successful album Comin' Out Hard. Though some of this material may be unfamiliar to New York-centric listeners, tracks like the brooding “Friend or Foe” and the Organized Noise-produced masterpiece “Don’t Flex” set the southern Hip-Hop community ablaze upon their initial release, and have lost none of their considerable power with the passage of time.8Ball & MJG first appeared on the rap scene with their underground 1991 album Listen to the Lyrics.

Though their very earliest, bounce based work is missing, We Are The South does an admirable job at compiling the best tracks from seminal albums like Comin’ Out Hard, and On Top of The World. The release of the aptly titled We Are The South does much to remedy that problem, assembling the best of the group’s pre Bad Boy work on a sleek sixteen-track compilation.

Like their contemporaries Three Six Mafia, 8Ball and MJG are both enviably consistent and intimidatingly prolific, making it difficult for neophytes to get an accurate picture of the group’s rich and complex history. Mainstays and arguably architects of the now unmistakable Memphis Hip-Hop sound, 8Ball and MJG have been releasing razor sharp street oriented Hip-Hop for the better part of two decades.

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