If it's too quiet, you're too old!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 November 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
we're all too old
― na (NA), Monday, 14 November 2016 20:47 (seven years ago) link
never rly listened to them before but this is great
― imago, Monday, 14 November 2016 21:46 (seven years ago) link
yah that's basically where i'm at
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Monday, 14 November 2016 21:56 (seven years ago) link
I don't know what album you all are listening to but this is godawful
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 14 November 2016 21:57 (seven years ago) link
jk this is really good!
you guys just coming into ATCQ now should really get up on the first three albums as soon as possible
― ¶ (DJP), Monday, 14 November 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
my younger brother is a massive fan, weird that i've never given them a proper go. but yeah this feels like the balm we all need rn
― imago, Monday, 14 November 2016 22:04 (seven years ago) link
imago how have u never at least heard Low End Theory?
― Spottie, Monday, 14 November 2016 22:33 (seven years ago) link
it was from ages ago and ages ago music is booooring
― imago, Monday, 14 November 2016 23:24 (seven years ago) link
(j/k, i don't know)
― imago, Monday, November 14, 2016 4:04 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 14 November 2016 23:54 (seven years ago) link
its funny as hell in this current political moment to watch ppl who ignored certain styles of music come around on them now that its social media cool
i mean im not mad, more money to rappers i like, im just saying
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 14 November 2016 23:56 (seven years ago) link
this is just great. I mean, I would think that, I can remember the first time I saw the "El Segundo" video on Yo! and I get real nostalgic thinking about that but man. What a tremendous piece of work.
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 00:21 (seven years ago) link
I can remember the first time I saw the "El Segundo" video on Yo! and I get real nostalgic thinking about that
Same! And then I went and bought the cassingle after church.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 01:20 (seven years ago) link
you had to get it!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 01:24 (seven years ago) link
tbf deej i've made it my project to hear more or less everything this year from loads of genres regardless of 'social media cool', this album one of the better ilm finds for sure, respect to those who were there from the start though
― imago, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 01:36 (seven years ago) link
yeah thank god for ilm scouring the earth for such rare finds
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 01:48 (seven years ago) link
lol "social media cool." It's fucking Tribe Called Quest, not the return of Mission of Burma or something.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 02:13 (seven years ago) link
I can imagine A Tribe Called Quest not having the same centrality to life outside the US. For example, Low End Theory was the theme music of every high school party I went to. I could imagine LJ not having that same experience.
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 02:17 (seven years ago) link
Nah A Tribe Called Quest were, if not big in album sales over here, at least well known, you'd see their videos a lot and their following did grow throughout the 90s. More to the point it was the type of rap that played well over here, there'd be plenty of people you'd meet in college for whom Low End Theory would be one of the five rap CDs they owned.
I'd imagine if you went to university after 2001 or so you'd have missed out of them altogether though, except Can I Kick It obviously. But the type of rap they represented would have felt outmoded in the 00s.
New album is fantastic anyway.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 09:39 (seven years ago) link
Tribe were/are a v big presence in New Zealand, Granny/Noodles otm
― albvivertine, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 10:36 (seven years ago) link
I mean Josh, whoops. Their videos kept being played here long after the first two records, anyway, and loads of my younger friends are posting new album stuff on fb.
― albvivertine, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 10:37 (seven years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, November 14, 2016 8:13 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
dont ask me why lj thought they werent worth investigating
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 12:34 (seven years ago) link
― ¶ (DJP), Monday, November 14, 2016 5:02 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
any Anderson.Paak verses on them?
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 13:46 (seven years ago) link
this is one of the quickest hours in music history, it feels like an album half its length
― imago, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 13:59 (seven years ago) link
Pretty disingenuous to pretend the buzz around this is just about "social media cool" and not because it's one of the best-loved and most unifying groups in the history of rap returning after nearly 20 years, just after the death of a key member, with an album that is actually as great as anyone could have hoped.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 14:13 (seven years ago) link
lol "social media cool." It's fucking Tribe Called Quest, not the return of Mission of Burma or something.― Josh in Chicago, Monday, November 14, 2016 8:13 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkdont ask me why lj thought they werent worth investigating
Not high enough on RYM
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 14:26 (seven years ago) link
idk if this is the answer you're fishing for but their two major albums have average scores over 4, which is quite something
― imago, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
Shaming people for discovering great music late is kind of a self-defeating gesture, no? Better late than never.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 15:22 (seven years ago) link
spotify does this playlist of old school/new school/golden age hip hop playlist called "the Gold School", they change up every week and this week's it's all Tribe, and I guess the biggest compliment that I could pay this album is that these tracks sound totally natural and great in the mix with stuff from People's, Low End, MM and BR&L and Love Movement
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 15:45 (seven years ago) link
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, November 15, 2016 10:22 AM (forty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
better never than having to read imago posts :P
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 16:04 (seven years ago) link
so jag louisask his tattooisthe was like the waterboy now they sayin you can do it!
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 16:28 (seven years ago) link
since I still harangue metal noobs I don't really have the moral authority to remind guys in their thirties that "HOW DID YOU NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS??? YOU FUCKIN NOOB!!!" doesn't make you look young and cool, it actually makes you look like aging Beatles fans commenting about Yoko Ono on a story on USA Today
still, congratulations to everybody who wants to come off as cool & hip as me bothering people who try to get into metal, it's a super good look I'm sure you'll agree
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 20:43 (seven years ago) link
hm thought the tone was pretty respectful outside of the to-be-expected deej zing.
― Spottie, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
imo making fun of rateyourmusic style shenanigans is always a good look
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 21:30 (seven years ago) link
I wonder how fat Q-Tip is.
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, July 20, 2006 12:24 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― na (NA), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 21:37 (seven years ago) link
tip is very slim and trim XD
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 21:39 (seven years ago) link
his style is kinda fat tho, reminiscent of a whale
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 21:42 (seven years ago) link
― Spottie, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 21:59 (seven years ago) link
q tips are really thin
vast aire and biggie were/are rly fat
its nominative determinism i think
― imago, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link
Who didn't eat no ham and eggs?
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 02:53 (seven years ago) link
Melanin is so good
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 20 November 2016 09:25 (seven years ago) link
great typo
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 20 November 2016 15:04 (seven years ago) link
yeah i know it looks pathetic
― PappaWheelie V, Sunday, 20 November 2016 15:35 (seven years ago) link
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 20 November 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
Poignant interview.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 November 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link
aaaand good news: http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7581458/a-tribe-called-quest-billboard-200-chart-no-1
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 November 2016 22:22 (seven years ago) link
have been listening to this all week & loving it. Lifelong crush on Q-Tip still intact; goddamn he sounds like high school in the best way <3
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 November 2016 23:36 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I've been listening to this all day everyday since it came out, my favorite song changes with each listen.
― I know hoes that know Ali Farka Toure (voodoo chili), Sunday, 20 November 2016 23:50 (seven years ago) link