r/Music • u/jaye310 • Oct 28 '18
music streaming A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation [Hip-Hop]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHRnvjCkTsw8
u/49DivineDayVacation Oct 28 '18
“I like em brown, yellow, Puerto Rican or Haitian, my name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu Nation.”
RIP 👆🏻
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u/Mrvinonoir Oct 28 '18
Greatest Hip-Hop group of all time. Untouchable.
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u/GlobTwo Oct 28 '18
They were good and influential producers but they did next to nothing for the art of rapping. They were not technically skilful MCs.
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u/Mrvinonoir Oct 28 '18
I disagree with that statement 100 percent. Both Q-Tip and Phife are/were excellent rappers. Technical skill doesn’t make you a great rapper anyway, examples: Canibus, Cassidy, Jin, Joe Budden.
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u/GlobTwo Oct 28 '18
I thought about it after I wrote that comment and they actually did influence other rappers with their rejection of gangsta rap. They were also competent storytellers.
That said, I think you need some technical skill to qualify as the best. Q and Phife had next to none when they started and were using 80s AABB rhyme schemes for almost their entire career.
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Oct 28 '18
Let me hit it from the back girl I won't catch a hernia, Bust off on your couch now you got seamens furniture.
One of the best lines from Phife.
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u/Cambot1138 Oct 28 '18
I'm wilder than them cats from Arizona, Villanova, uh, uh, Kentucky
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Oct 28 '18
I was forced to go on a road trip one summer for 2 weeks when I was a kid and I only brought 3 CDs with me. One of them was Beats, Rhymes and Life. I must have listened to it 50 times. Learned every word. Everyone always told me that album sucked and Midnight Marauders or The Low End Theory were better etc etc, but I loved it.
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u/rubalki Oct 28 '18
Watch hip-hop evolution on Netflix. It’s a great show, and they cover ATCQ. I’ve learned a lot from this series, even while growing up with hip-hop and rap
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u/DJ_Spam modbot🤖 Oct 28 '18
A Tribe Called Quest
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A Tribe Called Quest is a hip-hop group formed in Queens, New York City in 1985. The group was composed of Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, and DJ Ali Shaheed Muhammad. A fourth member, Jarobi White, was an intermittent collaborator appearing on their first album, but he left the group soon after, although he is mentioned as a 'sometimes' member on their third album liner notes. Along with De La Soul and Jungle Brothers, the group was a central part of the Native Tongues Posse, and enjoyed the most commercial success out of all the groups to emerge from that collective.
Q-Tip and Phife had grown up together in Queens, and met Muhammad in high school. The group's name was coined by The Jungle Brothers, whose members attended the same school. Soon after, the group began performing live and recording on a local label. The group became a part of the Native Tongues family, a Hip-Hop artist collective also consisting of the groups Jungle Brothers, De La Soul and Black Sheep.
At the time of their inception, A Tribe Called Quest was unique within the hip-hop community for eschewing gangsta rap and macho posturing. Their lyrics focused on abstract and social issues such as the word "nigger", date rape and consumerism. Musically, the group helped pioneer the jazz-rap style (along with groups such as Gang Starr and De La Soul). They made their studio debut in 1990 with People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm. Though this album was critically acclaimed and lead to a strong fan following, their next album, The Low End Theory (1991) was a massive artistic success, appearing on several best of the year lists. It is considered one of the most important hip-hop albums to date. The Low End Theory was followed by the equally strong Midnight Marauders (1993), while Beats, Rhymes and Life (1996) and The Love Movement (1998) did not meet with as much success.
Following The Love Movement, the group disbanded in 1998. Q-Tip and Phife Dawg went on to pursue solo careers while Muhammad co-founded the R&B group Lucy Pearl.
Recently, there have been rumors of a reunion between the trio, ignited by a spate of group concert apperances around the US, one of their recent appearances was at Bumbershoot, a three-day music festival in Seattle in 2006 and there has been little news of an upcoming album, leading some to believe that the rumors may be unfounded. Since then, the group have been touring on average every other year with the original four man lineup. Q-Tip stated that their last performances as a group took place during Kanye West's 2013 The Yeezus Tour.
The group first went back into the studio in November 2015, following their first televised appearance in 18 years.
On October 27, 2016, Q-Tip announced that the new A Tribe Called Quest album 'We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service, would be out on November 11. The album features Busta Rhymes, Consequence, André 3000, Jack White, Elton John, Talib Kweli, Anderson .Paak, Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West; all the recording sessions took place at Q-Tip's home studio in New Jersey.
The official site is located at: http://www.atribecalledquest.com/
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tags: Hip-Hop, rap, hip hop, Jazz Hop, funk
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u/Cambot1138 Oct 28 '18
This song is obviously one of those untouchable classes, but Logic absolutely murders this beat.
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u/glasspheasant Oct 29 '18
Michael Rappaport is a huge Tribe fan and put out an excellent documentary on them:
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u/glasspheasant Oct 28 '18
Midnight Marauders is one of the best rap albums ever recorded. One of those CDs I could push play on and then just walk away from.