Christmas Countdown – 3 Days

I’ve been waiting to post this one… It is easily my favorite Outkast joint, and probably my favorite Christmas song. Player’s Ball dropped in 1993 as their first single, but before that it appeared on a compilation called A LaFace Christmas. The record had songs from different LaFace recording artists which included TLC, Toni Braxton and Usher. In Player’s Ball, the beat is carried by sleigh bells while Andre and Big Boi drop their southern playalistic lyrics filled with Christmas references.

“You thought I’d break my neck to help y’all deck the halls”, “Ain’t no chimneys in the ghetto so I won’t be hangin’ my socks”,  and “Modern folk is in the back gettin’ tipsy off the nog” are just a few. But the main difference you’ll hear between the album version and the Christmas version is the chorus, “When the player’s ball is happening, on Christmas day”.  If you look hard enough you can still find copies of the LaFace version and video on YouTube, unfortunately they seem to be very strict with the embedding privileges, so I’ll have to pass on the album version . Merry Christmas Scrooges.