When you're down enough to become one of hip-hop's most respected groups, such as A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, then you're also down enough to know that respect in this business may only get you a shout out the back of somebody's LP and a free hot dog. Tribe members, Ali Shaheed, Phife and Q-Tip (the "abstract animal") know that the real respect in this biz comes from showin' and provin' every time out, and with the Tribe's track record, showin' and provin' is what they do best. In what remained of the late 80's the Tribe snatched it up an closed it out with soome of the slickest guest spot jump-ins of '88 & '89, thanks to home boys De La Soul and The Jungle brothers. Making the best of perfectly good a mic pass, Ali, Phife and Tip leaped all over the 12 bar hand-offs from their rhyme collection brethren (dubbed "The Native Tongues") and have been kicking "it" ever since. Known as a rapper's rap group, the Tribe gets much love from rap fans and rap artists alike because of their ever innovative lyrical skills, abstract subject matter and the group's always creative nature. While acquiescing to the reputation of being innovators in this form of music, the group shuns away from any attempt to be pigeonholed into a specific category. From conscious flows, to jazz grooves, to some ole ill shit that happened in El Segundo, the Tribe's mental fluidity keeps them moving on a soulful plane from one funky vibe to another. Past pieces of the Tribe's artful contributions to a world that had almost forgotten what this thing called hip-hop music was supposed to be about, consist of; "Peoples Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm," "The Low End Theory," and "Midnight Marauders." Now three years after Marauders (3 years! a lay off like that would put mere mortal emcees in the grave.) the Tribe returns with the mental, the physical and of course the abstract. The new joint called, "Beats, Rhymes and Life," represent the Tribe's latest full court press in hip hop's lyrical hoop game. The game is make 'um take 'um - winners stay and losers roll, and the Tribe's been runnin the court where the real comp is all day long (and that's why "Bonita Applebaum just had to put 'em on"!) About... |
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When you're down enough to become one of hip-hop's most respected groups, such as A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, then you're also down enough to know that respect in this business may only get you a shout out the back of somebody's LP and a free hot dog. Tribe members, Ali Shaheed, Phife and Q-Tip (the "abstract animal") know that the real respect in this biz comes from showin' and provin' every time out, and with the Tribe's track record, showin' and provin' is what they do best. In what remained of the late 80's the Tribe snatched it up an closed it out with soome of the slickest guest spot jump-ins of '88 & '89, thanks to home boys De La Soul and The Jungle brothers. Making the best of perfectly good a mic pass, Ali, Phife and Tip leaped all over the 12 bar hand-offs from their rhyme collection brethren (dubbed "The Native Tongues") and have been kicking "it" ever since. Known as a rapper's rap group, the Tribe gets much love from rap fans and rap artists alike because of their ever innovative lyrical skills, abstract subject matter and the group's always creative nature. While acquiescing to the reputation of being innovators in this form of music, the group shuns away from any attempt to be pigeonholed into a specific category. From conscious flows, to jazz grooves, to some ole ill shit that happened in El Segundo, the Tribe's mental fluidity keeps them moving on a soulful plane from one funky vibe to another. Past pieces of the Tribe's artful contributions to a world that had almost forgotten what this thing called hip-hop music was supposed to be about, consist of; "Peoples Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm," "The Low End Theory," and "Midnight Marauders." Now three years after Marauders (3 years! a lay off like that would put mere mortal emcees in the grave.) the Tribe returns with the mental, the physical and of course the abstract. The new joint called, "Beats, Rhymes and Life," represent the Tribe's latest full court press in hip hop's lyrical hoop game. The game is make 'um take 'um - winners stay and losers roll, and the Tribe's been runnin the court where the real comp is all day long (and that's why "Bonita Applebaum just had to put 'em on"!) About... |