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Slum Village, "Players"
Fast forward to "Players" — perhaps the finest cut from Slum Village, Dilla's Detroit crew — to hear Dilla's late-'90s sound at its apex. The production is simply on another level: There's the ingenious sample from The Singer Unlimited's "Clair" (the haunting refrain that sounds like "Players"), and Dilla's barely-there bass — warmer and deeper than ever. His trademark handclap snares and hi-hats, smartly lifted from "Rapper's Delight," featured a sloppy, drunken swing that had a game-changing influence on The Roots' Questlove, as heard on D'Angelo's Voodoo, and countless other producers and drummers to follow.
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