Celebratory, romantic and playfully boastful, Tribe’s fifth album floats on its own cool, lyrical cloud, with Q-Tip and Phife Dawg’s rhymes in peak form per usual.
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Tribe’s brilliant sophomore album still sounds like a timeless experience and remains the pinnacle of their recording career.
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To their credit, Tribe didn’t try to make a carbon copy of ‘The Low End Theory’ or ‘Midnight Marauders’ with their fourth LP, which sounds different than anything the group had released before.
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Released on the heels of the anxiety catalyzed by the Y2K bug, this soulful trio helped us party in the first summer of the century and set the tone for neo-soul’s evolution in the new decade.
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