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'Once Upon A Time' - was originally titled 'On A Mission', and was on a white label before the album's release.

The remix of 'Fall-N-Love' used a sample of Alice Cooper's 'Shoe Salesman'. It was a beat that had a kalimba sample in it, so Dilla went and found a kalimba and played it over the track in his own way, and then chopped it up in the SP1200, and then re-did the beat just so it could be cleaner. What ended up happening was we picked a beat that Pete made from that session, and changed the vocals on it, and then Dilla went back and remade that same beat that Pete originally made. On the Pete Rock record (“Once Upon A Time”), Pete came down to Detroit, brought his SP1200, played some beats, and him and Dilla were just vibing back and forth.

So on a track like that one, Busta would do his verse first in New York, and we wouldn’t even record our own verses until we got back to Detroit, because we already knew Dilla wasn’t done with his remixes on it. I would say at least half of the tracks on the album were remixed multiple times before the final track was put on the album. T3: Yeah, he was just such a perfectionist and was always trying to push himself musically to where no one else could go. People were familiar with our new music even though it wasn’t released yet, so we got to travel and do shows because of that.

The one good thing about the album being bootlegged though, was that we still toured off of it. So whoever bootlegged that probably made some good money on those. I remember once we went to Europe in 1999, and there were some people that came up to us wanting us to sign our record that hadn’t even been released yet, and the craziest thing was that the cover on it was like a picture of New York’s skyline, and we’re like, “We’re not from New York, like why would that be the cover?” So I guess whoever bootlegged it assumed that we were from New York just based on our style, and put the New York skyline on there with the words “Slum Village.” A lot of people had that same copy of it, too. We had never dealt with bootlegging like that before either, so it was pretty crazy. So, I guess after the deal fell through, people who had their hands on it were just giving it away. Somehow our record had leaked through the industry though. T3: Yeah, we finished all this music and did all this promotion, and even though we had a deal, we didn’t get to come out with the album.