a tribe called quest reunion

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.

Louis, have u listened to low end theory yet?

Low End Theory changed my life

finally getting to this. i am stunned at how good this is.

i feel like with how fucked up 2016 has been, this new album is a perfect elixir.

listening to the low end theory for the first time right now

back in the day when I was a teenager, before i had status and before i had a pagerrrrrr

these are some heavy uplifting vibes

ah man Kendrick fits with Tribe so nicely........love his verse

Gonna be a good day for you louis

otm

welcome to the coolest planet in the galaxy

they got some basslines huh

I mean this in the best possible spirit but for all the wit and sass of TLET, I think I prefer the new one. Obviously I can see how towering this was in 1991 or whenever

That's more meant to be 'the new one is fucking incredible' than 'tlet is crap' - it's obviously great

^^ before you had status

this is terrific. "we the people" is a classic ATCQ track already after one listen. theres a Can sample somewhere on the album too

ah man Kendrick fits with Tribe so nicely........love his verse

he REALLY sounds like Mike Ladd to me on that verse - I even had to check it wasn't Mike.

Christgau:

As it was envisioned, this through-conceived meld of rhythm and voice, harmony and hook, ideas and feelings, life and death would have dawned upon us 11/9 as a collegial reminder in the spirit of its title: OK ma'am, the wolf has skulked away from the door, now let the people shape their destiny. Track one moans "The heat the heat the heat the heat" to signify climate change not law enforcement before it states its cross-racial political purposes with a forthright "It's time to go left and not right." And fundamentally, that was the idea. Of course the hour that ensues isn't uniformly ideological—this is music, their first in decades and their last ever, and music's impulses and necessities are their heart. But not their brain. With everybody home and Busta Rhymes moved into the guest room, the drama is all in reuniting seeker Q-Tip, whose long apprenticeship as a fusion musician finally yields some beats, and family man Phife Dog, who left this mortal plane in March but rhymes all the way to the final track. The album represents both their bond and the conscious black humanism they felt sure the nation was ready for: struggle yoked with work ethic, "forward movement" with "instinctual soul," "answer for cancer" with "learning is free," and damn right race-blind law enforcement. Hillary is a "woman with the wisdom who is leading the way," "The Donald"—Phife rhyming here, no later than March—all "Bloodclot you doing/Bullshit you spewing/As if the country ain't already ruined." The election didn't turn out like they figured. We know. But the music remains, urging us to love each other as much as we can as we achieve a happiness it's our duty to reaccess if we're to battle as all we can be. Its statement of principle didn't get the victory it foresaw. But it remains a triumph. A PLUS

For real