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A brilliant way to get reporters' attention: Invite them to a strip club. On assignment, of course! Unlikely crunk crossover rap group Three Six Mafia is promoting its new single with a "Strip Club Tour," and the media is encouraged to attend. "Please reply to this email by 3PM today (3/12/08) if your site has correspondents in the following markets and you would like to cover them at the strip club," says the pitch. Reporters across the South and Midwest are stumbling over each other to find the relevant angle on this one. On a professional level. After the jump, a full tour schedule, and a video of 3-6-M's new single "I'd Rather" Set to a montage of Eliot Spitzer photos. This may prove to be the most successful music marketing strategy of all time.

THE THREE SIX MAFIA STRIP CLUB TOUR SCHEDULE, SO IF YOU ARE ON EVEN A CRAPPY LITTLE LOCAL PAPER AROUND HERE YOU BETTER START BRAINSTORMING QUICK, FELLA:

Tennesse 3/17, 3/18, 3/19

Jackson, MS
3/20

Birmingham, AL
3/21

Atlanta, GA
3/22, 3/32, 3/24

Tucson, AZ
3/29

San Antonio, TX
3/30

Texas
3/31, 4/1, 4/2, 4/3, 4/4

Chicago
4/10, 4/11

Lake Forest, Il
4/12

Detroit, MI
4/13

St. Louis, MO
4/14