Slum Village’s T3 and Young RJ dish on Detroit with Jalen Rose
nypost.comcelebrate hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, it would be an outright sin to exclude Detroit’s legendary group Slum Village from the conversation.
That OG trio absolutely owned the late 1990s with their debut album “Fan-Tas-Tic” and the current group continues to make a mark on music today.
The active duo, T3 and Young RJ, recently released powerhouse single “Just Like You” and have what’s sure to be a spectacular album coming soon, too.I had the pleasure of speaking with them both on this week’s “Renaissance Man” in an episode that’s not only a stroll down memory lane — but also a foreshadowing of what is to come for hip-hop.Like many bands have, Slum Village underwent personnel changes throughout the years and, sadly, has lost two of its three founding members, J Dilla and Baatin.The third of that original crew, the iconic rapper T3, reminisced on how the group rose to meteoric success like it was only yesterday.“I remember when J came to do one of the first shows — because J started off in the back DJing and then we moved him further to the front,” T3 recalled of his late friend and musician who took the mic finally.“Once I saw how we gelled with the show and the chemistry we had, then that’s when I knew, ‘OK, you know, maybe we can make this pop.’”T3’s theory was proven more than successful as Slum Village hit the studio.
With the mighty influence of J Dilla, it didn’t take long for them to attract major names like Busta Rhymes, Q-Tip, Questlove and Erykah Badu to line up for coveted recording sessions.“That was so inspiring for us to be able to bring that back to the city,” T3 said of their many hit collaborations. “It really got us out there.
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