a tribe called quest reunion

are we not online????

yeah safe to say it wasn't just initial hype; this album is going to be remembered

My favorite album of the year, too.

They blood pressure high?
Why? They don't play no more
Probably

I meant outside iLXville, of course

This album is brilliant. We The People is only going to get better/more powerful/more poignant as the year goes on. That chorus is dark as shit.

The past 2 months would have felt very different to me without this album. Will it survive? I guess we'll find out, but as of now I see nothing suggesting otherwise.

Very strange that this album that was released to hype in November and spent most of December showing up in the top 10 of nearly every music site's 2016 list has completely fallen off the internet on Dec 30.

this album is -- how you say -- fucking incredible.

yeah it's super dense and rich and awesome through and through, keep coming back to it

finally listening to this and wow yes this bangs

Vinyl for this is nice. Lyric sheet! And some stuff in the credis i didnt recognize (like the Sabbath sample)

this album is -- how you say -- fucking incredible.

― Treeship, Saturday, January 14, 2017 8:28 PM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i've been reading this post in a russian accent

yes this is incredible

there's a line on this album that phife has where he says "talking bout my work ethic" that i originally misheard as "got that obama work ethic" and i kinda want to get that tattooed somewhere

I've been looking forward to a summer with this album. Why not start today?

yes!

shit bangs

WE GOT TO GET OUR SHIT TOGETHER

This album is a goddamn miracle

^^^

Yes.

https://vimeo.com/201470063

been listening to this album again for the first time in awhile and goddam it holds up

Same! Even some of the tracks I'd usually skip are decent.

https://img.discogs.com/P9aedSoLvJdpgKeRt1KPBVM0MgM=/fit-in/600x584/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-9577362-1494735428-6791.png.jpg

5 years ago today. one of the most timely releases in my life! this shit hit just right

This won “Best international album” at the Brits, that year.

It was somewhat glossed over on the tv coverage. To be fair, there were some unassailable reasons for that, but a bit more detail and some music from it would have been nice.

What were the reasons?

it's still scarcely believable how good this turned out

in the context of a comeback, not in context of how good they were before

"We Got It from Here..." is easily in their top three best albums, and I will die on this hill.

Low End > Midnight > We Got It

Checks out.

Low End is so clearly inferior to the other two, as a relative newcomer, imo

Hard disagree, as someone who grew up on them!

I'm giving We Got It From Here another listen and yes it's fantastic.

I'm not sure why I haven't listened to it more. Maybe when it came out the vocals felt low in the mix to me or something?

Low End is the best one wtf xxpost

"Scenario", "Excursions", "Buggin' Out".....

NOT NO PARKAY, NOT NO MARJARINE
STRICTLY BUTTER BABY, STRICTLY BUTTER

Low End is the best one

otm

it's impossible to overrate.

the reunion album, while i do agree it was an inspiring miracle that it happened, was solidly decent and nothing more. if it was reviewed in the source magazine in 1995, it would have received four mics and i would have agreed with that.

now, midnight marauders on the other hand, that fucking album is overrated without merit. it's still good, and a hiphop classic, but it's not even the group's best album.

midnight marauders and low end are very close, i prefer marauders but don’t really get worked up if someone prefers low end theory.

we got it from here is a five mic-er in my mind, but then again the source gave project pat’s ghetto green 2.5 mics so what do they know

now, keep in mind, i'm time traveling with my source magazine ratings to a period when their ratings a) were fairly accurate and b) weren't reacting against anything except how they felt about the album being reviewed.

i think there's two firm tribe opinions that we can all agree on: 1) they were fucking rad and 2) that was a shame about the love movement, wasn't it?

haha OTM

There's a great album lurking somewhere within The Love Movement but that certainly isn't what we got

that's the only one I haven't heard to date.

I even like Beats, Rhymes, and Life a lot. doesn't quite hit the highs of the previous two, but it has "Stressed Out" on it, and "Phony Rappers".

also Consequence!

"Start It Up" and "Find A Way" are great, and then comes the creeping realization that nothing else on the album is going to be monochromatic refractions of those two songs with little to no percussive or melodic variation (aside from "Like It Like That") (I'm not including bonus tracks here, obv; the Spotify version elevates dramatically at "Scenario (remix)" and leaves you wondering why they put all of that bland beige shit on the album proper)

Nobody’s mentioned “Peoples instinctive travels” etc..

I have personal reasons for that one being my fav, and the best,etc.

Still though…..l

"Left My Wallet in El Segundo" is nice. it's good overall, but I feel like it's a mega leap from that to LET which is why it gets forgotten.

"Bonita Applebum" also classic

"There's a great album lurking somewhere within The Love Movement "

Great EP I'd say

"Find My Way" bumps. The rest -- well, I've tried.

Nobody’s mentioned “Peoples instinctive travels” etc..

I have personal reasons for that one being my fav, and the best,etc.

Still though…..l

Yeah the first three albums are all great, and We Got It From Here too, that was miraculous. Low End is still my favorite of the four, and I'd probably place We Got It From Here second - it's the only one I got to know when it came out, and given that moment in time & history, it feels all the more powerful.

They even made the 2017 Grammys memorable (at least for their performance):

https://vimeo.com/302978618

LET has always been my favorite as well. I’ve always found it odd that people rank MM above it, which feels like thinking Stankonia is better than Aquemini or something

In my head the production on Low End is really sparse compared to Marauders, which makes me question why I like it more. But then I listen to it and am reminded. Marauders actually feels a little overproduced by comparison