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.
Read moreA Tribe Called Quest’s Debut Album ‘People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary
That A Tribe Called Quest was able to start at such a high level with their debut album, and then progress beyond it with subsequent efforts, speaks to their singular talent.
Read moreQ-Tip’s Debut Solo Album ‘Amplified’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary
Revisiting ‘Amplified’ two-and-a-half decades on, it’s absolutely what a Q-Tip solo album should have sounded like, and it’s very much in the same universe as Tribe’s records that preceded it.
Read moreQ-Tip’s ‘The Renaissance’ Turns 15 | Album Anniversary
Q-Tip’s sophomore album was conceived following the engineered birth of one effort (1999’s ‘Amplified’) and the painful abortion of another (the long-delayed ‘Kamaal the Abstract’).
Read moreA Tribe Called Quest’s ‘The Love Movement’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary
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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