a tribe called quest reunion

And no, they never re-brokeup. They're just refusing to record as long as they're signed to Jive, who won't let them out of their contract.

Sad that this group got messed up because of the business of music.

The new Lupe Fiasco/Neptunes song sounds totally like the Q-Tip solo album.

i had a dream that the most recent episode of the wire (which i still havent seen) was all about a tribe called quest. kind of from their secret origins to the last album. and it ended with them handing in "the love movement" to the record label and q-tip / me (cuz i'm always the protagonist in my dreams) announces at the end of the episode, kind of spontaneously, "this will be our last album!" and shocks everyone

wtf dude

i know. and they spent most of their time in this really fancy open-concept record label office. and something about a monster in the forest?

how is that even an episode of The Wire!? like they run "Way Down In The Hole" and the opening credits and then, boom, Q-Tip contract negotiations and the fuckin' Cloverfield monster?

i think at the end there was a scene with mcnulty. i was like 'oh shit, i just realized this whole episode is just about tribe! crazy concept episode!'

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v662/cerberus314/thatsracist.gif

...

yeah that's gotta some real flubbed comedy gif placement there, i don't even get it.

gabbneb explain yourself

the gabbneb device is malfunctioning

could it be payback for this:

thatsracist.jpg

-- gabbneb, Thursday, September 27, 2007 4:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

it's a GIF

-- s1ocki, Friday, September 28, 2007 12:07 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Link

well met, gabbneb

http://www.savage1.com/Sweet%20Revenge%202.0.jpg

still waiting for answers

WHAT HAPPENED HERE.

thatsrosebud.gif

all canadians look alike

great revive

lololol

the real episode is bound to be a letdown (not to mention my fuckin coworker already spoiled it for me)

next time revive the dreams thread, not the tribe thread, breaux

lololololololololololololololololol

next time revive the dreams thread, not the tribe thread, breaux

-- gabbneb, Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:45 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

did i just get put in my place by the gabbenator??

I think you as a matter of fact yeah

you think i what?

People We Like

"this will be our last album"

"..."

*ta-ta-tah-tah-tah-taaahhhhh*

they handed it in on this weird piece of metal, like it was on a usb stick but it looked like a piece of jewelry.

new documentary by michael rappaport!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__2hzD3gNVw&feature=player_embedded

I was really hoping for more seasons of The War at Home.

i didn't know jarobi was back with them, i always wondered what his role was in the group. hope there's at least some on him and not all phife vs. tip drama

was really hoping for final cut footage of slocki's dream (w/ gabbneb commentary track)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Phife-dawg-jm3-funyons.jpg

nglish: photo of Malik Taylor / Phife Dawg while eating Funyuns™

man gabbneb was the fukkin worst

Same! Even some of the tracks I'd usually skip are decent.

https://img.discogs.com/P9aedSoLvJdpgKeRt1KPBVM0MgM=/fit-in/600x584/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-9577362-1494735428-6791.png.jpg

5 years ago today. one of the most timely releases in my life! this shit hit just right

This won “Best international album” at the Brits, that year.

It was somewhat glossed over on the tv coverage. To be fair, there were some unassailable reasons for that, but a bit more detail and some music from it would have been nice.

What were the reasons?

it's still scarcely believable how good this turned out

in the context of a comeback, not in context of how good they were before

"We Got It from Here..." is easily in their top three best albums, and I will die on this hill.

Low End > Midnight > We Got It

Checks out.

Low End is so clearly inferior to the other two, as a relative newcomer, imo

Hard disagree, as someone who grew up on them!

I'm giving We Got It From Here another listen and yes it's fantastic.

I'm not sure why I haven't listened to it more. Maybe when it came out the vocals felt low in the mix to me or something?

Low End is the best one wtf xxpost

"Scenario", "Excursions", "Buggin' Out".....

NOT NO PARKAY, NOT NO MARJARINE
STRICTLY BUTTER BABY, STRICTLY BUTTER

Low End is the best one

otm

it's impossible to overrate.

the reunion album, while i do agree it was an inspiring miracle that it happened, was solidly decent and nothing more. if it was reviewed in the source magazine in 1995, it would have received four mics and i would have agreed with that.

now, midnight marauders on the other hand, that fucking album is overrated without merit. it's still good, and a hiphop classic, but it's not even the group's best album.

midnight marauders and low end are very close, i prefer marauders but don’t really get worked up if someone prefers low end theory.

we got it from here is a five mic-er in my mind, but then again the source gave project pat’s ghetto green 2.5 mics so what do they know

now, keep in mind, i'm time traveling with my source magazine ratings to a period when their ratings a) were fairly accurate and b) weren't reacting against anything except how they felt about the album being reviewed.

i think there's two firm tribe opinions that we can all agree on: 1) they were fucking rad and 2) that was a shame about the love movement, wasn't it?

haha OTM

There's a great album lurking somewhere within The Love Movement but that certainly isn't what we got

that's the only one I haven't heard to date.

I even like Beats, Rhymes, and Life a lot. doesn't quite hit the highs of the previous two, but it has "Stressed Out" on it, and "Phony Rappers".

also Consequence!

"Start It Up" and "Find A Way" are great, and then comes the creeping realization that nothing else on the album is going to be monochromatic refractions of those two songs with little to no percussive or melodic variation (aside from "Like It Like That") (I'm not including bonus tracks here, obv; the Spotify version elevates dramatically at "Scenario (remix)" and leaves you wondering why they put all of that bland beige shit on the album proper)

Nobody’s mentioned “Peoples instinctive travels” etc..

I have personal reasons for that one being my fav, and the best,etc.

Still though…..l

"Left My Wallet in El Segundo" is nice. it's good overall, but I feel like it's a mega leap from that to LET which is why it gets forgotten.

"Bonita Applebum" also classic

"There's a great album lurking somewhere within The Love Movement "

Great EP I'd say

"Find My Way" bumps. The rest -- well, I've tried.

Nobody’s mentioned “Peoples instinctive travels” etc..

I have personal reasons for that one being my fav, and the best,etc.

Still though…..l

Yeah the first three albums are all great, and We Got It From Here too, that was miraculous. Low End is still my favorite of the four, and I'd probably place We Got It From Here second - it's the only one I got to know when it came out, and given that moment in time & history, it feels all the more powerful.

They even made the 2017 Grammys memorable (at least for their performance):

https://vimeo.com/302978618

LET has always been my favorite as well. I’ve always found it odd that people rank MM above it, which feels like thinking Stankonia is better than Aquemini or something

In my head the production on Low End is really sparse compared to Marauders, which makes me question why I like it more. But then I listen to it and am reminded. Marauders actually feels a little overproduced by comparison

It's splitting hairs for me but I prefer MM just because that's my peak era of hip hop production & engineering. LET set the bar and MM refined it. It's just a liiil more dense sonically yet still tight/focused. There's lil things popping into the mix or happening in the background which doesn't really happen in LET.

Also prob biased because "Scenario" was never my fav to begin with and it's v played out, never need to hear it again

'overproduced' is a criticism that usually means I'll like something, lol

LET has always been my favorite as well. I’ve always found it odd that people rank MM above it, which feels like thinking Stankonia is better than Aquemini or something

Hah, I think Low End is Tribe's best and would call Stankonia OutKast's best.

Song for song I’ll take MM, there is not a bad track imo. As for LET you have songs like Rap Promoter and ..show businesses. Perhaps LET has the higher highs

Not like we haven’t gone through this exercise countless times lol

re: beats, rhymes & life and the love movement—

i usually kind of think of br&l as even with midnight marauders. not because of anything other than i like them about the same. to me they're both 4.5-5 mic classics and i have never understood why br&l was considered disappointing. of course, i bought them at the same time (br&l's release date, to be exact) so i heard them both for first the time basically back to back. br&l was a smoother, slicker sound but to me it felt like the next logical step. i have always considered it classic, if for nothing else than it confirmed for me that dilla ("jay dee" / "the ummah" when working with q-tip at the time, of course) was THE guy to check for in the liner notes.

tlm was legitimately disappointing. songs with nore? really???? some solid beats, but yeah it felt like where the slickness of br&l was in line with the vibe, on tlm it was just . . . so *meh*. that said: "find a way", "like it like that", and "the love" are all top tier tribe and i would easily include them in a "best of" set. 3 mics, tops. and even that's generous. i never really counted the tracks after "rock rock ya'll" because they were all from older 12" singles, but they're all pretty much classic songs (except "money maker", which was just another disappointing new track).

trivia time:
tlm was released the same day as aquemini. talk about passing the torch. anyway, i've always just assumed andre's verse on "rosa parks" was about the br&l disappointment backlash (`kinda sour cause my favorite group ain't comin' widdit`). wonder what he thought of the love movement.

BR&L has too many mid tempo moments for me to embrace.

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There's a great album lurking somewhere within The Love Movement but that certainly isn't what we got

LET is my fav Tribe LP but Electric relaxation might be my fav Tribe jam. After Hours is the best jam off the debut.

2nd the love for the instrumental

haven't listened to TLM for such a long time, bought the fancy 3LP version the day it came out. I tried to love it but it never clicked outside of Find A Way (helped by the fact I already liked the Bebel/Towa Tei track it samples from). MM is my fav, that opening salvo of Biko and Award Tour never fails to make me smile.

The old lady saw us on the lawn with the Henny
Turn the pool party into the one from McKinney
Might've been racist like the waitresses up in Denny’s
Swore we had twelve gauges, automatics, and semis
Now they wanna condemn me for my freedom of speech
'Cause I see things in black and white like Lisa and Screech
Presidents get impeached and others fill in the throne
But veterans don’t get the benefit of feelin' at home

Was watching the Tribe doc again last night and had forgotten they'd done this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZrK39H5zp4

The “classical” cheese mellowed to the sounds of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. The “rock” cheese listened to Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven.” An ambient cheese listened to Yello’s “Monolith,” the hip-hop cheese was exposed to A Tribe Called Quest’s “Jazz (We’ve Got)” and the techno fromage raved to Vril’s “UV.” A control cheese aged in silence, while three other wheels were exposed to simple high, medium and low frequency tones.

According to a press release, the cheese was then examined by food technologists from the ZHAW Food Perception Research Group, which concluded that the cheese exposed to music had a milder flavor compared to the non-musical cheese. They also found that the hip-hop cheese had a stronger aroma and stronger flavor than other samples.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hip-hop-and-mozart-improve-flavor-swiss-cheese-180971721/

Boy this cheese really has a lot of flavor

back in the day when i was a teenager
before I had status and before I had a pager
You could find the Abstract
Nibbling on Samsø
My pops used to say it reminded him of Tybo

I said "now daddy don't you know that things go in cycles?"
way that Stilton cheese is just ampin like Stichel

Seems like a poorly designed experiment to have the hip hop cheese exposed to a song with prominent jazz samples but no separate jazz cheese.

not sure if this experiment makes me happy or angry. either way, wow that's really stupid.

rude

Cheese just there vibing on some tunes and you gotta call it stupid

Cheese (We've Got)

Shorty let me tell you about my only vice
It has to do with coagulated milk and it ain't nothing nice