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"Why You Wanna Trip On Me"

Date range assessed by the fact that recording for this started at least “in the summer of 1991”, but as late as October, when the final recording sessions took place (Mike Smallcombe, “Making Michael”)

Teddy Riley, co-writer/producer, “Rolling Stone” (January 9, 1992) (archived)

We anticipated a lot of people saying a lot of stuff about Michael… Hammer going after Michael and Jermaine going after Michael. We anticipated that. That's why we wrote songs like 'Trippin' ['Why You Wanna Trip on Me'] and 'Jam.' We know that people are after him, people are talking about him. But we didn't get too direct, we didn't say anybody's name. 'Cause when you're too direct, it gets boring.

“MusicRadar” (July 3, 2009) (archived)

The element I'm most proud of in this song is my guitar playing. I thought he [Jackson] was going to get another person to play on it but he wanted my good self playing! That was something special to me. I was using an acoustic Ovation guitar.

The whole song didn't take long to produce, actually. I think the longest part was writing everything and getting everything formatted. There's no studio trickery either, really. When you're doing analogue it's pretty much, you know, getting everything on tape, you know? It's very warm. That's basically it.