Slum Village

Slum Village is ever evolving, with the addition of Young RJ Rice to the line-up, T3 and Young RJ remained focused and ready to go to the next level. Formed in 1996 Slum Village released their first album Fantastic Volume 1, independently. The album was an instant underground classic. After the group's first national release, Fantastic, Volume 2 under their home label Barak Records, dubbed an immediate classic from fans and industry tastemakers. .In 2001, J Dilla made the decision to pursue his solo career, but still hung around helping Young RJ with production, T3, Baatin, and Elzhi started work on their next album "Trinity" released on Barak/Capital Records. This album would feature their first commercial single "Tainted" which featured an unknown Dwele, also “Disco” the remix produced by Timberland.