Tribe were/are a v big presence in New Zealand, Granny/Noodles otm
― albvivertine, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 10:36 (seven years ago) link
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.
― albvivertine, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 10:37 (seven years ago) link
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
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 12:34 (seven years ago) link
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?
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 13:46 (seven years ago) link
lol
this is one of the quickest hours in music history, it feels like an album half its length
― imago, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 13:59 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 14:13 (seven years ago) link
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 Permalinkdont ask me why lj thought they werent worth investigating
Not high enough on RYM
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 14:26 (seven years ago) link
idk if this is the answer you're fishing for but their two major albums have average scores over 4, which is quite something
― imago, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
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, 15 November 2016 15:22 (seven years ago) link
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
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 15:45 (seven years ago) link
― 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
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 16:04 (seven years ago) link
so jag louisask his tattooisthe was like the waterboy now they sayin you can do it!
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 16:28 (seven years ago) link
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
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 20:43 (seven years ago) link
hm thought the tone was pretty respectful outside of the to-be-expected deej zing.
― Spottie, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
imo making fun of rateyourmusic style shenanigans is always a good look
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 21:30 (seven years ago) link
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
― na (NA), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 21:37 (seven years ago) link
tip is very slim and trim XD
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 21:39 (seven years ago) link
his style is kinda fat tho, reminiscent of a whale
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 21:42 (seven years ago) link
― Spottie, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 21:59 (seven years ago) link
q tips are really thin
vast aire and biggie were/are rly fat
its nominative determinism i think
― imago, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link
Who didn't eat no ham and eggs?
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 02:53 (seven years ago) link
Melanin is so good
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 20 November 2016 09:25 (seven years ago) link
great typo
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 20 November 2016 15:04 (seven years ago) link
yeah i know it looks pathetic
― PappaWheelie V, Sunday, 20 November 2016 15:35 (seven years ago) link
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 20 November 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
Poignant interview.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 November 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link
aaaand good news: http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7581458/a-tribe-called-quest-billboard-200-chart-no-1
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 November 2016 22:22 (seven years ago) link
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
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 November 2016 23:36 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I've been listening to this all day everyday since it came out, my favorite song changes with each listen.
― I know hoes that know Ali Farka Toure (voodoo chili), Sunday, 20 November 2016 23:50 (seven years ago) link
Louis, have u listened to low end theory yet?
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 24 November 2016 04:25 (seven years ago) link
Low End Theory changed my life
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 24 November 2016 13:58 (seven years ago) link
finally getting to this. i am stunned at how good this is.
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 24 November 2016 14:13 (seven years ago) link
i feel like with how fucked up 2016 has been, this new album is a perfect elixir.
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 24 November 2016 14:17 (seven years ago) link
listening to the low end theory for the first time right now
― imago, Thursday, 24 November 2016 15:03 (seven years ago) link
back in the day when I was a teenager, before i had status and before i had a pagerrrrrr
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 24 November 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
these are some heavy uplifting vibes
― imago, Thursday, 24 November 2016 15:06 (seven years ago) link
ah man Kendrick fits with Tribe so nicely........love his verse
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 24 November 2016 15:13 (seven years ago) link
Gonna be a good day for you louis
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 24 November 2016 15:16 (seven years ago) link
otm
welcome to the coolest planet in the galaxy
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 November 2016 18:04 (seven years ago) link
they got some basslines huh
― imago, Thursday, 24 November 2016 18:41 (seven years ago) link
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
― imago, Thursday, 24 November 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
That's more meant to be 'the new one is fucking incredible' than 'tlet is crap' - it's obviously great
― imago, Thursday, 24 November 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
^^ before you had status
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 November 2016 18:52 (seven years ago) link
this is terrific. "we the people" is a classic ATCQ track already after one listen. theres a Can sample somewhere on the album too
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Thursday, 24 November 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link
he REALLY sounds like Mike Ladd to me on that verse - I even had to check it wasn't Mike.
― stevie, Friday, 25 November 2016 10:40 (seven years ago) link
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
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 November 2016 16:18 (seven years ago) link
For real
― Adam J Duncan, Friday, 25 November 2016 16:30 (seven years ago) link
this is a 10/10 record, easily
― imago, Sunday, 27 November 2016 14:36 (seven years ago) link
is the vinyl going to be widely available or only thru the okayplayer site?
― stevie, Sunday, 27 November 2016 19:19 (seven years ago) link
still playing this daily and being slayed by it daily
― stevie, Sunday, 27 November 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link