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.
Read moreA Tribe Called Quest’s ‘The Low End Theory’ Turns 30 | Anniversary Retrospective
Tribe’s brilliant sophomore album still sounds like a timeless experience and remains the pinnacle of their recording career.
Read moreA Tribe Called Quest’s ‘Beats, Rhymes and Life’ Turns 25 | Anniversary Retrospective
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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