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- De La Soul, “Buddy (Native Tongue Decision)” feat. Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Jungle Brothers, Queen Latifah, Monie Love (1989) While Q-Tip had been smoothly making the rounds on Jungle Brothers and De La Soul albums, this all-star posse cut marked the debut appearance of Phife Dawg, combining the talents of both A Tribe Called Quest MCs on one track for the first time.
- Jungle Brothers, “Doin’ Our Own Dang” feat. De La Soul, Monie Love, A Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah (1989) Before Tribe dropped their debut album, every Q-Tip appearance on a Native Tongues track was an event, and his contribution to this partying posse cut was no exception.
- “I Left My Wallet in El Segundo” (1990) Though he dubbed himself "The Abstract," Q-Tip had a natural storyteller's gift for concrete lyrical detail from the jump.
- “Bonita Applebum” (1990) "This is the song that truly birthed the idea of neo-soul," Questlove told Rolling Stone of People's Instinctive's second single.
A Tribe Called Quest is to Hip Hop what Pink Floyd is to Rock ‘n’ Roll. With humble beginnings in Queens, New York, the group blossomed from the friendship of Jonathan Davis (Q-Tip) and Malik...
- “Pad & Pen
- “I Left My Wallet in El Segundo”
- “Buggin’ Out”
- “Bonita Applebum”
- “Electric Relaxation”
- “Stressed Out”
- “God Lives Through”
- “Award Tour”
- “Scenario”
- “Jazz
The justly earned Cult of Dilla has helped rehab Tribe’s last two albums, but there’s more to those underrated-in-retrospect records than just some prime examples of early-peak Jay Dee beats. No sense in glossing over them, though: the beat to “Pad & Pen,” aside from containing a great in-joke (the samples are sourced from Gap Mangione and The Gap ...
It can be easy to forget that A Tribe Called Quest pre-Low End Theory were just as off-kilter and playfully goofy as D.A.I.S.Y. Age-era De La Soul when it came to colorful, positive-rap bohemianism. Age might have something to do with it — Q-Tip was the only member who’d even hit his twenties when People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhyth...
Imagine listening to The Low End Theory for the first time after knowing ATCQ more or less as that group where Q-Tip is the lead MC, with Phife as the tag-along dude with more personality than skills. You’ve just heard “Excursions,” the opening track that features Tip taking control throughout, pulling off two of his most memorable verses ever and ...
Here’s a crucial moment in hip-hop love songs that snuck in another revolutionary moment in a space many people would mistake for a background detail. History knows this as one of the great romantic moments in rap, even if there’s more than just lovestruck flirtation in Q-Tip’s come-ons: there’s ambivalence (“Do I love you? Do I lust for you? Am I ...
On the other end of the love you/lust for you scale, this is where Tribe went borderline over-the-top in dirty sex rhymes — there’s punchlines and references in here, especially from Phife, that are as close to Danny Brown-style raunch as any Native Tongues artist or anyone else in the “conscious rap” periphery have ever been. (An all-time great ob...
The “dark” reputation of Beats, Rhymes And Life does make sense in the context of ’96. It’s the same year that the Shiny Suit era started to crest over the horizon, the same money-changes-everything atmosphere that drove Native Tongues cohorts De La Soul to riddle Stakes Is High with disillusioned observations on the state of hip-hop’s mainstream c...
Despite his history of providing memorable guest spots on three Tribe albums and being closely tied in with the group’s history in the minds of fans — check out 2013’s The Abstract And The Dragon mixtape for further reference — we don’t see a lot of Busta Rhymes in the Beats, Rhymes & Life doc. But when we do see him, he’s listening to “God Lives T...
Tribe’s biggest crossover hit, both in 1993 and since, isn’t enigmatic or complicated or gimmicky, unless getting Trugoy from De La to do a “Night Train”-style itinerary of cities on the hook is a gimmick. It just all clicks together, and take your pick from all the reasons and ways: Tip and Phife outdo most peers in simultaneous show-and-prove lyr...
Only two things keep this, the legendary closing cut off the second of three straight classic Tribe albums, out of the #1 slot. The first is probably subjective to a fault, actually — it’s the ATCQ cut for a lot of people, the one track of theirs you’re almost 100% guaranteed to hear if you go out to any club or DJ set with an eye on the golden age...
If they didn’t invent jazz-rap on The Low End Theory, Tribe were the first to perfect it. In 1991, incorporating jazz was still fairly unusual in hip-hop production; even the first couple LPs by Gang Starr, a group feted for both Guru and DJ Premier’s reverence and ear for the genre’s many phases, were heavier on funk and R&B breaks than fusion or ...
Promotional singles. Other charted songs. Guest appearances. Notes. References. External links. A Tribe Called Quest discography. A Tribe Called Quest was an American hip hop group, formed in 1985. [1] . They released six studio albums, five compilations, sixteen singles and two extended plays.
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Rolling Stone. Preview. The pioneering New York rap crew's best tracks. Song. Artist. Time. Buddy (feat. De La Soul, Jungle Brothers & Queen Latifah) [Remix] J.PERIOD, Q-Tip. 2:07. Doin' Our Own Dang. Jungle Brothers. 4:18. I Left My Wallet in El Segundo. A Tribe Called Quest. 4:06. Bonita Applebum (includes 'Can I Kick It' Intro)
All Songs by A Tribe Called Quest. A Tribe Called Quest discography includes 212 songs. Electric Relaxation. 557.2K. We the People.... 546.4K. Scenario. 513.3K. Can I Kick It?...
A Tribe Called Quest was the most commercially successful act in the Native Tongues, with all six of its albums certified either gold or platinum. John Bush of AllMusic called them "the most intelligent, artistic rap group during the 1990s", and Kris Ex of Pitchfork regarded them as "one of the greatest acts that hip-hop has ever produced".
