Only two years ago, things were looking pretty down for the Detroit trio Slum Village. Just a few years after reuniting with partners T3 and Elzhi, founding player Baatin unexpectedly and suddenly died while the group was recording the group's sixth commercial album, Villa Manifesto. This was a huge blow. And yet, despite the constant barrage of beat-downs, the group has grown and came out the other side.
T3 puts it like this, "To be honest, for me, I really didn't want to do it. Thing that made me want to do this Slum Village thing again was probably [J Dilla's mother] Ms. Yancey and Illa J the legacy that [the group] is, and I kinda know this and I was really hesitant to do any Slum thing, but as of recently, I've kinda been soul-searching and I still...you know, Slum Village has been around a long time and we've had a lot of member changes, we had a lot of things going, and I kinda feel like it was just time for us to get together to do music. As of now, I've wrapped my brain around it and I'm ready to tackle that, and probably about the end of this year we'll probably drop a record. At first, you know, Young [RJ] - he's always been on the production side of Slum Village since Trinity, so we're talking a lot of albums, and Illa has grown up with Slum Village from when he was a young lad, and even now in being in Slum Village, so I mean, it's natural. There's nothing about it that's not natural, I feel like it's just time for us to kinda do it."
With another album coming, we give the formiddable group a lot of credit. The rest of the honest interview can be found past the source link.
Source: hiphopdx.com
