Slum Village Interview - On Detriot Deli, Kanye West

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Dice: Yeah man its the jump off with ya man dice. T3 and Elzhi over here to my right, you know them collectively as Slum Village. Whats up fellas, whats poppin what yall doing in Atlanta?

Elzhi: We out here doing a show with Bone Crusher, D-12, King Gordi. We out here just having a ball man. Aiight well Slum been putting it down for a while, this is officially our fourth album, we been on a couple of labels, we have Fantastic Volume 1 & 2, we came out with trinity, and now we are here with Detriot Deli. So we have been doing this for a while, some of you may know us from our last couple of years ago single called "Tainted," now we are back again weith "Selfish" with Kanye West. So you know we just keep putting it down consistently and trying to do what we do, you know give the people our interpretation of that Detroit Sound.

Dice: speaking of "Selfish" its blazin the charts man, its off the new album Detroit Deli thats in stores right now. You know Im from the 'D' too, Heat, gators, Detroit players. What made all Selfish, what brought the concept from "Selfish" to life?

T3: We wanted a joint that speaks for the fellas, at the same time have a joint that where we were shouting out all the ladies around the world. Fromt he skinny to the thick, fat, tall, whatever, you know we selfish we want all yall. You know thats basically what spawned it man, but uh we did it with Kanye West you know, Kanye was cool, it was like the last joint that we had recorded for the Detroit Deli album and it ended up being the single. We recorded it in two days man. Kanye, while he was doing the beat he did his rhymes. Him T3 and John Legend collabo'd on the hook, and man we just did it all in two days.

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