![]() ![]() It's not even the kind of piano hook you normally hear in '90s East Coast rap-think of the somber, reflective hooks of Nas' " The World is Yours" or Mobb Deep's " Survival of the Fittest"-and actually might have more in common with the rip-roaring piano hooks preferred by the house scene of the time, fueling dance classics like David Morales' "Needin U." It's so fun, so lithe, so light on its feet, that it sounds inextricable with the experience of partying with your friends and loved (or at least lusted) ones, the kind of hook that makes your reflexively raise your drink and wave it in the air when you hear it. It's not surprising that the song turned out to be Pun's biggest crossover hit (and only Top 40 entry), reaching #24 in the Summer of '98.īut more than anything, the thing that's made it endure as a classic party-starter 15 years later-and it celebrated its 15th anniversary earlier this week-is that piano hook. It's got all the ingredients: It's rooted in two songs that were previously hits (Pun's original " I'm Not a Player" and Joe's R&B hit " Don't Wanna Be a Player"), it's got fun, agreeable lyrics about getting down (with Pun specifically, a la Notorious B.I.G.'s "Big Poppa"), and it's got at least two instantly memorable vocal hooks (the "I'm not a player, I just fuck/crush a lot" line, returned from Pun's original "Player," and the " Boricua, morena" singalong started by Joe on the song's bridge). ![]() Big Punisher's "Still Not a Player" was always destined to be a smash. ![]()
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