They want to dive into the game right away.
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Most players nowadays just want to jump directly into matches.
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#BIG PUN DON T WANNA BE A PLAYER MAC#
Mac even quotes Pun's trademark "I ain't a player, I just." line in his opening verse, which probably isn't a coincidence.Getting into a room to play with (or against) someone is very easy with Photon.Įither tell the server to find a matching room, follow a friend into her room, or fetch a list of rooms to let the user pick one.Īll three variants are supported by Photon and you can even roll your own. (The fact that Ariana's voice is a dead ringer for Mariah's doesn't hurt with this impression either). That's probably because with its super-enthused lyrics and production (filled with synth-claps, " HEYYYYY!!!" shouts and the like), with its lyrical flirtations between Ariana and and guest rapper Mac Miller, and of course, with that always-frisky piano hook it has the feel of one of a late-'90s throwback-like one of those Mariah Carey songs where she banters with the likes of Jay-Z or JD. Though it's closer in pace to the Russell song, the hook's latest benefactor-Ariana Grande's new hit single "The Way," another mid-tempo number-is far more indebted in feel to the Pun smash.
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The screwed-up version of the hook makes it a much more celebratory and joyous affair, taking the melody out of the bedroom and onto the dancefloor-though, somewhat ironically, the Pun song is much more explicitly about sex than the Russell song. "Still Not a Player" doesn't do much to alter the hook, except for winding it up a couple keys and several dozen beats per minute, and adding a light drum shuffle and a weird sort of clicking sound-halfway between a typewriter and a grasshopper chirping-to give it more of a sense of propulsion. 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.