a tribe called quest reunion

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

(j/k, i don't know)

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, Monday, November 14, 2016 4:04 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

its funny as hell in this current political moment to watch ppl who ignored certain styles of music come around on them now that its social media cool

i mean im not mad, more money to rappers i like, im just saying

this is just great. I mean, I would think that, I can remember the first time I saw the "El Segundo" video on Yo! and I get real nostalgic thinking about that but man. What a tremendous piece of work.

I can remember the first time I saw the "El Segundo" video on Yo! and I get real nostalgic thinking about that

Same! And then I went and bought the cassingle after church.

you had to get it!

tbf deej i've made it my project to hear more or less everything this year from loads of genres regardless of 'social media cool', this album one of the better ilm finds for sure, respect to those who were there from the start though

yeah thank god for ilm scouring the earth for such rare finds

lol "social media cool." It's fucking Tribe Called Quest, not the return of Mission of Burma or something.

I can imagine A Tribe Called Quest not having the same centrality to life outside the US. For example, Low End Theory was the theme music of every high school party I went to. I could imagine LJ not having that same experience.

Nah A Tribe Called Quest were, if not big in album sales over here, at least well known, you'd see their videos a lot and their following did grow throughout the 90s. More to the point it was the type of rap that played well over here, there'd be plenty of people you'd meet in college for whom Low End Theory would be one of the five rap CDs they owned.

I'd imagine if you went to university after 2001 or so you'd have missed out of them altogether though, except Can I Kick It obviously. But the type of rap they represented would have felt outmoded in the 00s.

New album is fantastic anyway.

Tribe were/are a v big presence in New Zealand, Granny/Noodles otm

I mean Josh, whoops. Their videos kept being played here long after the first two records, anyway, and loads of my younger friends are posting new album stuff on fb.

lol "social media cool." It's fucking Tribe Called Quest, not the return of Mission of Burma or something.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, November 14, 2016 8:13 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dont ask me why lj thought they werent worth investigating

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

― ¶ (DJP), Monday, November 14, 2016 5:02 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

any Anderson.Paak verses on them?

lol

this is one of the quickest hours in music history, it feels like an album half its length

Pretty disingenuous to pretend the buzz around this is just about "social media cool" and not because it's one of the best-loved and most unifying groups in the history of rap returning after nearly 20 years, just after the death of a key member, with an album that is actually as great as anyone could have hoped.

lol "social media cool." It's fucking Tribe Called Quest, not the return of Mission of Burma or something.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, November 14, 2016 8:13 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dont ask me why lj thought they werent worth investigating

Not high enough on RYM