Story behind Slum Village “Players”

 “Players” Slum Village Fan-Tas-Tic Vol 1 (Goodvibe 2000)[The sample] don’t say “players,” it say “Claire,” but we used subliminal tactics on that one. Dilla didn’t really even chop it, but by us saying “players” so much you think it says “players.” People don’t know that was a battle song, only niggas in the D know that. We was actually talking ’bout some real niggas. We’re cool today, but it was actually [deceased rapper] Proof’s group. These niggas had just dropped they CD that Dilla did most of the beats for and they was just acting arrogant, walking around real tough and we got kind of offended by it. Once we started talking about it, Wajeed [from Platinum Pied Pipers] was like a hype man, like, “Man, they just put their shit out, where’s yours?” We went over to Dilla’s house and it was one a them nights where everything was clickin. Two weeks later we came with Vol 1. They kind of inspired us by being so arrogant, so we made “Players” about them. They found out, I don’t know how…somebody told.T3

Slum Village - “Players” 

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