a tribe called quest reunion

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

idk if this is the answer you're fishing for but their two major albums have average scores over 4, which is quite something

Shaming people for discovering great music late is kind of a self-defeating gesture, no? Better late than never.

spotify does this playlist of old school/new school/golden age hip hop playlist called "the Gold School", they change up every week and this week's it's all Tribe, and I guess the biggest compliment that I could pay this album is that these tracks sound totally natural and great in the mix with stuff from People's, Low End, MM and BR&L and Love Movement

Shaming people for discovering great music late is kind of a self-defeating gesture, no? Better late than never.

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, November 15, 2016 10:22 AM (forty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

better never than having to read imago posts :P

so jag louis
ask his tattooist
he was like the waterboy now they sayin you can do it!

since I still harangue metal noobs I don't really have the moral authority to remind guys in their thirties that "HOW DID YOU NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS??? YOU FUCKIN NOOB!!!" doesn't make you look young and cool, it actually makes you look like aging Beatles fans commenting about Yoko Ono on a story on USA Today

still, congratulations to everybody who wants to come off as cool & hip as me bothering people who try to get into metal, it's a super good look I'm sure you'll agree

hm thought the tone was pretty respectful outside of the to-be-expected deej zing.

imo making fun of rateyourmusic style shenanigans is always a good look

I wonder how fat Q-Tip is.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, July 20, 2006 12:24 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tip is very slim and trim XD

his style is kinda fat tho, reminiscent of a whale

lol

q tips are really thin

vast aire and biggie were/are rly fat

its nominative determinism i think

Who didn't eat no ham and eggs?

Melanin is so good

great typo

yeah i know it looks pathetic

lol

Poignant interview.

aaaand good news: http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7581458/a-tribe-called-quest-billboard-200-chart-no-1

have been listening to this all week & loving it. Lifelong crush on Q-Tip still intact; goddamn he sounds like high school in the best way <3

Yeah, I've been listening to this all day everyday since it came out, my favorite song changes with each listen.