Playa (was Really Really Pimpin' in Da South)

[Grant Barrett]

A fine explanation of "playahatin" appeared yesterday, 5 Aug. 2004, in
the freebie Metro newspaper,  p. 6, NYC version:

IN THE SEPTEMBER issue of Vibe magazine, Jamie Foxx tells how he gave
Tom Cruise a crash course in slang. “We were talkin’ about all sorts of
issues. Like I taught him what ‘playahatin’ was. He was goin’ through
some stuff, and I used the term, and he didn’t know what it meant.” Fox
explained the term. “I grabbed him by the neck and said, ‘How close am
I to you right now? He said, ‘You’re pretty f***ing close?. I said,
‘Now, imagine I’m your blood brother, or one o’ your good friends. And
all the blessing are being passed out in the universe. And you get the
good looks, charisma, career, the ladies, everything. And it misses me,
by half an inch. I will always subliminally hate you, because I feel if
I had only been standin’ just a coupla inches over, it woulda got me.
That’s what playa-hatin’ is.”

Grant Barrett

On Aug 6, 2004, at 07:50, David Bowie wrote:

> From:    Wilson Gray <hwgray at EARTHLINK.NET>
> : John Baker wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> ::  Finally, "players"