Outkast - Player's Ball (Official HD Video) 

I remember watching this as a teen in 94 on Rap City, my intro to Outkast, didn't know who he was and his contributions until years later. Legendary. R.I.P

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Always love childhood

This song came out 92 93 Bone Came out the same time.

Damn this is so updated raps better than 1990s gangster raps.

Wrong! The whole south

Nah, from the whole Earth

Still izz

I mean you can't forget about Migos though, not saying they're better but they're up there, of course Outkast is more popular and iconic, but you can't go against what Migos has done

"We da coolest mothafawckas on the planet" - outkast

No doubt..!!

***** yes i see!!

***** Thank you and much respect!!

***** 😘

God dammit not again XD

& its still better than this trash nowadays

Destinys child christmas song is very good, TLC christmas song is cool too, but I guess you'd consider them corny lol

@@bluecrystalpalace TLC is not corny.. TLC is part of hip hop history.

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Hell yeah!^^

My G!!!

Lil case no favors

Currently..

Quaran-20

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I still have this cassette tape lol. C/O 98

*albums

This song NEVER

No way. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f3a_si4A1vQ.html

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Hell yeah

I love 'Players Ball'. It's their very first single and it is blazing!

SAY THAT SHIT DAWG💯💯💯

R.i.p Mr. Rico Wade made me smile that Cee lo bought the Dungeon ❤

Yep. They always refer to that first album as a Dungeon Family album. The whole crew got behind Outkast. Created some monsters

@@brotherLee340 her err e r

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So young!!

Top 5 favorite song

He’s that dude

Interested in knowing what he said about how to make it in the music industry

@@moonknight352 haha true story.

If that was the conversation, I'm assuming someone brought it up, I mean you just don't start a conversation about music when you meet someone. So I'm assuming it was you, so did you make it in the music industry?

​@@beatzwire7537He didn't say anything, and if he did this person obviously didn't take what he said and apply it to themselves. If they had, they would be known by now.🤦🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

@beatzwire7537 he said that performing was very important: basically when you're an up and coming artist, it's important to get your name out there. We mainly talked about his old school stuff (I mentioned 'Southerplayaisticadillacmuzik' being one of my favorite HH albums).

Same. I was 14, white boy in the country. My brother got into this, brought it home from Atlanta. It changed everything my ears heard from that point on, kinda like a comparison/point of perspective.

Classic.

I was 15 born an raised on the west coast , grew up in Long beach California, yes this a true classic , we played this like we played Doggystyle 💯😏✊

Born in 95 dad put me on i love it till this day

I’m 1 year removed from your numbers (age 43) and exactly the same. I’m from UK and first heard this on Yo MTV raps and that was like my window to hip hop and Atlanta. Classic.

BIG BOI DA SHIT!

Check it!!

The rest was history!! Literally🙌🏾⛪️

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Real talk

Whose to say that Andre didn't find Big Boi "weird" when he went through his so called pimp days and stuck with him? I get where you're coming from but that's what made them so unique.

nmorgan24 So true man! I dont think big boi gets enough props, not just for sticking with Andre but for his rapping skill. I think its really overlooked

nmorgan24 Comments like this is why "Return of the G" was written

very true, they were ahead of there time.

this was actually 93! Debuted on LaFace Family Christmas. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player%27s_Ball

This song was recorded in 1992 and got mass acclaim in 1993. Then they put it on Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik which released in 1994. Needless to say, Outkast were the shit and were definitely doing really interesting things way ahead of other rappers.

Organized Noise were ahead of their time....OutKast would be nowhere on the map if it wasn't of them. They taught them everything....after Southernplayalisticcadillacmuzik, they left to make their own album using what they learned from Organized Noise.....after that they went Diamond with Speakerboxx/The Love Below, won a shitload of Grammys.....not a single time they have thanked Organized Noise for rising them to the top. Speakerboxx/the love below is the perfect reflection of what artist can do to get the most money as possible, they turn banana. Mainstream shit you know. ATliens was the last good album they made, it was dope ! You hear it and you can easily think that it was produced by Organized Noise, but it was not. Dre and Big Boi simply learned everything from Organized noise and they never showed them respect for that afterward....i say fuck them !

Rien Nafoutre You're crazy! Outkast are mad grateful to Organized Noize and I'm sure they shout them out all the time, however they're not going to credit them on an album that they didn't produce for. And I'm sorry but ATLiens wasn't their last good album. Aquemini, Stankonia and Speakerboxx/Love Below were just as good. I admit Stankonia had a lot of filler so it's probably one of their not so good albums however the other two really showed Andre 3000 and Big Boi at their musical and most expressive best

For real! I was like am I tripping? It's also censored

Right the clean version boompin too

This is the reprise at the end of the album. They're just rapping to that reprise or remix of Player's Ball.

It was on the B-side tape version when it came out

Right? The other version doesn't have that piano in the beat and the intro was not accompanied by it also. They changed it from one day to another and the other video is deleted

this song was tight as hell

I agree

enzigenes hell yeah! I was 12, and outkast and Nas are still my favorite

ShayHoney82 Big Boi and Dre was 17 years old when they made this song

I was only 6 but I remember jamming this with my older cuz.. good times, I miss the 90s vibe mann

I was 14 too & this one always transports me back to them days...

@@torianmcneill3794 big boi and dre were actually 18

Absolutely 🫡🫡

Amen

CJ Love i mean but they literally say "when the players ball i happening on Christmas day"

This mix for the music video says "on Christmas day", but there's another mix with a few additional production effects over the verses (I can't remember which were released in which formats - radio edits, vinyl, CD, cassette, who knows which versions were used for different digital platforms when those came along) that changes it to "all day e'ry day". All the other references are still there, of course.

@@JohannVII Yeah, an annotation of the lyrics for Player's Ball on Genius says the lyric was modified so the song would have appeal past the holiday season as it was rising quickly in the charts.

The song was originally released on LaFace's Christmas Album. They asked Kast to do a Christmas song and they were like Christmas is just another day for us.

The sleigh bells on this track dope as hell!

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The best 🎶 of all time

WorldWide

Hits was the goal.....not shock value....

Sisas parcero en mera navidad jajaja

I remember when I learned that, I was like, for real? I had been bumping for several years but I learned it was a Xmas song back in 2000.

They were asked to drop a holiday track and this was the one.

you not atl fr cs you not listen to what dey sayn twin, you prob jus like the beat.

@@outstandingpaperchaser I knew when he said to help yall deck the halls well in the original version he said sum different

sum real talk

You Mexicans always come with this shit

+Eric Casarez hahahha you're the one making threats on RU-vid amigo, go bend some tortillas lol

I love tortillas. Sounds good to me. I'm hungry.... bye bye little girl.

+Eric Casarez I bet you are really hungry you look like a fat fuck

+Jaz Janelle same here lol

Me too . Lol

lol

Netflix? Get out of here. Your disgracing a amazing song. Netflix!, really?

Was a teenager, and love this song

It immediately takes me back to that time.✌🏾 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bi_rV9ZcCjw.html

I am 65 yrs. Old. My son listen not knowing at the time I was listening 2. Love them 2. Two Pack, Eminem and etc. God Bless!

I think I was 13 or 14 years old when this came out I'm 42

RUN DMC's Christmas in Hollis first, then this. Nice Xmas.

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I’m dead 🤣🤣💀. Love you haha! I’ll tell mine the same. Merry Christmas, y’all.

it's A1 to elevators for me

mogul d liberation and so fresh so clean for me

Same here bro

No geto boys

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This song came out at such an innocent time.

Me 2. God Bless

The Golden Hawaiian Swordsman Dragon is also jamming to all his favorite 90's and early 2,000 tunes!!!! He's VERY GRATEFUL TO BE born In The 90's when OutKast was getting more and more popular!!!!!👍

Yes indeed

Well it came out in 94 so maybe not 93

This single dropped in 93 lol before the album. It was featured on the Laface xmas album

+AQUAPHREESH193 oh right

Honestly man one of the best to ever do it fr

you know, brother. cheers!

Outkast won a lot of arguments with the label to go so experimental. Legends!

@@ciaranfinn4466 Andre appeared on a song with TLC back then they’re from Atlanta

Organized Noize definitely put Atlanta sound on the map before timberland, metro boomin, and many others

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Yup

Ironic to bring up mumble rap considering the South gave us that too unfortunately. Love OutKast though!

How TF ain't nobody correct ALT yet? SMFH.

Thats what im saying , they used to be dope since 90s i used to listen to them and ghetto boys and little brother but now its straight up wack

LA from Ice Cube to Blueface NY from Nas to 6ix9ine Chicago from Da Brat to Chief Keef Bay Area from Too Short to Saweeti The whole country is going backwards

Its not whack at all , do you guys ever listen to hip hop?

@@gkay8889 Of course some of the newer rappers are original but many of today’s rappers are just some wanna be thug, emo trappers. They glorify a fake lifestyle they never lived and make millions by doing it. Unlike them the OGs had to grind and rapped about the life they lived and the surroundings they grew up in. Many of today’s rappers try to duplicate these oldschool sounds/flows especially Memphis horrorcore from the 90s but they end up portraying themselves as depressed, wannabes. Half of the music that’s considered trap nowadays has nothing to do with trapping. The OGs paved the way for many of today’s rap/hiphop sub genres, the south was mocked back then but ended up having the biggest influence in today’s music. While the East and west coast had a war going on the south was ahead of the game.

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yes I agree all the way

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He lost it when he hooked up with Erykah Badu and became Andre 3000

what was his name before

Forever a classic

@Paul LA Reid was around a rapper Left Eye from TLC

Christian Bessard a Christmas song

Valencio Danes This is the Christmas version though lol. The chorus says "The player ball is happening on Christmas Day." that's the easiest way to tell.

Christian Bessard 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

Whatever! I'm enjoying the Christmas bells in this song! 🎄🎄

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit... It's Christmas in October then

2020😘

2020 and beyond.✌🏾 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f3a_si4A1vQ.html

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1billion percent. We didnt NEED East Coast nor West Music. Much pride instilled

They changed the beat on this

@@poloregal the changed the beat on this

@@NorthPhilly-zr7xc This the version is the one I was introduced to I'm not from ATL

@@ericwright2181 oh OK I remember the album version was in this video and they took it out