a tribe called quest reunion

Really nice album

I like that it is genuinely new and modern rather than just trying to capture the old magic. It's also their most serious and politically-minded album.

Whoa damn

sounded better on each play yesterday, looking forward to listening to it more over the weekend

just want to live inside space program but everytime tip gets to "and the president's refined / in her wing she's confined / with about thirty percocets and five bottles of wine" i get aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

also wanna renege on my earlier negativity on "wall of sound"; it opened up in headphones... matt otm basically

i will cop to approaching the elton john/busta rhymes collabo with some prejudice; I'm pleased they proved me wrong!

Def makes me want to revisit the last two Tribe albums

Me too, but I still like their older stuff better.

Love Movement was a legit masterpiece. So is this one. Pretty awesome they went out with two great final albums that sound nothing alike.

I relistened to TLM yesterday morning as I do every couple years to learn whether my yawn needs rescinding. Nope.

Another thing to acknowledge, esp because he sounds so revitalized being back with Tribe, bug Busta is one of the godddamn forces of nature in the history of music

man Tip is one sexy motherfucker, always was.

Busta is one of the godddamn forces of nature in the history of music

that part in "mobius" where he's like "ohwaitwaitwaitwait i gotta do it again! i gotta do it again!"

Yeah in the article they talk about how they hung out in the studio kicking around ideas, instead of just emailing verses and beats like most albums now, parts like that you can really feel that, I think that's a big part of what makes this feel so good

Also s/o to Consequence who maybe isn't as distinctive as everyone else but drops some really cold verses that give the album a little more street feel in a couple of places that i think adds to it in a nice way

I don't hate The Love Movement the way I did when it was first released but it's to my ears a clear step down from BRL, which itself is a step down from the first three albums. The new one blows it away easily; I'd rank it with Low End and MM.

I think I agree with that.

I don't hate The Love Movement the way I did when it was first released but it's to my ears a clear step down from BRL, which itself is a step down from the first three albums. The new one blows it away easily; I'd rank it with Low End and MM.

yes this is where I'm at tbh

Love Movement is an acquired taste. BRL just isn't very good.

Agree the new one may be even better than Love Movement, though. It's just much more in line with what people want from a Tribe album.

Busta been one of the best rappers alive the last few years tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl_s-9TbO-M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhIrzbhEGvs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cklwGaNKMCo

Don't get me wrong,"Start It Up" is fire; I think it's the album is a little monochromatic after that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDxKVYUHBdA

I don't know what the deal is with Ali Shaheed not being in that photo or on the album but still appearing in the performance?

Did he contribute a lot on their previous albums or is he mostly their live DJ?

Ha, props to Tip taking a moment to clown himself on "Ego".

I think "Lost Somebody" is the only song here I don't care for. Good intentions, obviously, but it doesn't really land, and it detracts from the illusion that the LP was completed before Phife died

I can't stop listening to this

I don't know what the deal is with Ali Shaheed not being in that photo or on the album but still appearing in the performance?

Promo photos will have been taken during the week, not at the taping.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/review-a-tribe-called-quests-we-got-it-from-here--w450235

"Bohemian everydude funkonauts" A+. Awesome on point review Whiney. This record is the world to me this last week.

well done bro

Thanks guys!

excellent work – listening to the album for the fourth time in an hour.

nice one, Whiney! I liked BRL well enough when it came out, but didn't listen to it a ton. I don't think I've ever listened to TLM. Maybe I should give them a shot.

Yeah, I mean I was certainly lukewarm on them when they dropped, but I think Dilla's legacy has proven they were actually onto something

does something about the mixing/mastering on this sound a little weird to anyone else? like the vocals are kind of buried and hard to hear, especially in the early part of the album?

The vocals mix is really bothering my partner - she keeps asking, "are you sure this is the final version?"

no it does sound pretty raw but i like that

If it's too quiet, you're too old!

we're all too old

never rly listened to them before but this is great

yah that's basically where i'm at

I don't know what album you all are listening to but this is godawful

jk this is really good!

you guys just coming into ATCQ now should really get up on the first three albums as soon as possible

my younger brother is a massive fan, weird that i've never given them a proper go. but yeah this feels like the balm we all need rn

imago how have u never at least heard Low End Theory?

it was from ages ago and ages ago music is booooring